Don't worry. There are more Hometown Stories coming. Stay tuned for The One About My Friend's Daughter Biting Kyle on the Knee, and The One Where We Clean Out My Parents' Basement.There is a place where thirtysomething adults can go to act like kids even though they are dressed … [Read more...]

Stewart and I have a five-year plan to move back to Connecticut and stay there. Well, it was a five-year plan 2 years ago. That means it should be a three-year plan now, but it's still sort of a within-the-decade plan. Ideally, it will be by the time Kyle starts kindergarten. So … [Read more...]

We interrupt the Hometown Stories series to bring you these current events.Since we arrived back in California, the children have been trying to kill me. Kyle is more the innocent bystander, or the complicit-by-nonaction sidekick. It's Brady who masterminds this operation, with … [Read more...]

As usual, when Kyle spends a bunch of time with my father, his language skills increase. He's been getting better at pronouncing words that he has had difficulty with in the past, like "galaxy."We were all driving from one place to another in the minivan my parents rented for us … [Read more...]

Someone else's wedding is not about me, I know. I kept telling myself that as the days before Laura's wedding reception rolled on. But I still wanted to make a good impression. After all, we were getting a new family, and none of my family had seen me since before I had the baby. … [Read more...]