It's Official

Hi

E is a rather serious baby, but quite beautiful nonetheless.

About Those Preemie Steps

I recently realized I've lived in my house for four years, not two or three like I usually tell people.

So, tonight I decided to not go another day without curtains on at least one window in my bedroom (I think I only have one curtain rod on hand).

At this pace, I can expect to be completely unpacked and decorated in about 2037.

Independence Day

It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. --Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776, "Had a Declaration..." [electronic edition]. Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive. Massachusetts Historical Society. http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/

Preemie Steps

I told a friend I think he sometimes takes preemie baby steps instead of baby steps. Truth is, I do too. Exhibit one: the post I made today on FB. After more than a month of lukewarm but genuine effort, my clothing is tighter, not looser. So perhaps I'm really taking embryo steps?