My beautiful wife, If there was one thing I knew for sure when I married you, it’s that you were going to be an amazing mother. Your warmth, loving heart, gentle spirit, and caring soul would most certainly translate to being the kind of mom that any child would love and adore. I’m so grateful we...
10 of 52 Like her mama, Isla loves animals! She is especially fond our cats, Miller and Safa. This past week she has decided that a visit with “Mi-Yuh” and “Fafa” is a necessary part of her bedtime routine. Tonight she plucked individual pieces of cat food from their bowl and enthusiastically hand-fed them both.
I read several blogs where the writers post weekly portraits of their children, and I find myself ooh-ing and ah-ing at how their little ones grow and change throughout the year. I then had the sudden (duh!) realization that I should do this for Isla. In this first installment, I am catching up for the...
For the first time since moving to Shanghai we decided to travel during the October holiday break, and took the short flight down to Hong Kong. Our timing was certainly exciting, as we arrived just as the protests, known as the Umbrella Revolution, began to gain some momentum. Though the main roadways directly behind our...
Well, not all of our summer was spent in Oregon… In July, we introduced Isla to her Texas roots and spent a week with family and friends in Houston and Austin. It was a wonderful trip, filled with great people, copious amounts of queso, and singing round upon round of “zippity do da” with Papa...
