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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]