The scene above has been common in the Russell house for the past several weeks. first it was a nasty cold that wouldn’t let anyone go, then I managed to contract a rather serious infection that dropped me like a rock for a full week and a half. As it stands now the entire house [...]
Life sometimes changes focus for you and sometimes you have to decide it’s time to change the focus of your life on your own. In either case it’s inevitable that the focus does change, that the direction you took yesterday doesn’t jibe with the course you’ve chosen for the next week, month or year.
It’s the [...]
Unfortunately, my life never gets any less busy. Being a work at home dad and a mild workaholic can lead to a pretty long workweek. (My last workweek lasted 19 days.) Of course on top of the work, there is being Dad, which takes up at least as much time as work does. In the [...]
It’s been hectic around the Russell compound for the past few days, what with long weekends and nagging coughs. Add visits by grandparents and half-brothers and all kinds of craziness, and I find that I’m just a bit behind here, but this will be corrected immediately!
I have Three days worth to catch you up on. [...]
There was a time when we were worried my son would never speak. those worries are, thankfully, behind us. Lil’ B.’s vocabulary grows stronger every day. He asks for drinks, shows me where things are and calls people by name. The world is no longer an anonymous, nameless place to him. This is a blessing [...]
