Author: Mark

Last month, I had my annual physical and I passed with flying colors. I have dropped 25 pounds; and still losing weight, since last September. What is my secret? Well, the truth is I have a 15 month old baby and I don’t have time to eat. I would rather starve, suffer, and sleep than…

Something we did on the Saturday before his 1st birthday in May and we didn’t tell anybody till this week was we had a professional photographer take photos of us as a family and of the smash cake.  We exchanged soap for photos.  Nina makes homemade bath and body products.  The photographer wasn’t somebody we…

For the past two weekends, Nina and I have been in and even though it sounded relaxing, it was actually busy.  Busy because we have a 15 month old baby who likes to play and we like to play with him; although sometimes he plays by himself and we just supervise.  It is fun to…

Within the past few weeks, Niko has started to climb things. Climbing the sofa; OK. Climbing the fire place; not OK. Climbing the rocking chair; not OK. Climbing a chair; not OK. Climbing in the toy box; not OK. Climbing in a storage cube; not OK. Climbing on an IKEA 4×4  storage cube; not OK. …

On Thursday, I had a doctors appointment at 11am and around 9am, I noticed a car that wasn’t mine or Nina’s in our driveway; I saw it was a Saturn SUV and I know my parents drive a Saturn SUV, but I didn’t think it was theirs.  So, when I opened the door with my…