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graffiti to the streets, or to Fabio

For the past 3 months, Fabio has been working the day shift schedule. That part has been wonderful, cause we’ve been seeing more of him, and we get to have dinner as a fmaily, and the boys get to play with him, and in general, the schedule more or less coincides with the rest [...]

Willik is in Florida

Willik left for Florida sunday night.
He’ll be away for 10 days.
My parents and sister took him, as a present for his 5th birthday.
They’ll go to all the parks in Orlando, and also a brazilian churches conference over the holiday weekend.
When Phoenix was saying his final goodbye to Willik, and realizing that he really wasn’t going [...]

God delivered!!!

We received a great gift today. We got a new minivan.
Yup, we found it on yahoo, and it was way out in suffolk.
We bought it from an apparently well-off family, who bought a new van, so they were selling this one.

Why am I calling a gift, you might ask…
Well, that’s because it couldn’t have [...]

stolen cars, vandalized cars and bad neighborhoods

Most of you know that New York City has been losing it’s luster for me for some time.
One could say it started happening as early as the first time I spent a summer away doing missions in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, while attending Art School in the city.
I guess it was the first time I [...]

cicadas are our friends

Well, not exactly, but we do like finding their shells.
The last couple years, probably since Willik was about 3, we’ve been known to take a walk around the blocks near my parents’ house in Mineola, and look for shells left behind by cicadas.

Now that Phoenix is also 3, he seems to have a interest in [...]