The SnowPocalypse is underway.

Here's part of the National Weather Service advisory for my area:

... Winter Storm Warning now in effect until 10 PM EST this ( Read more... )

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Which isn't a bad thing, but there's something very weird about the magazine ( Read more... )

It was a year ago today that we got the call from the adoption agency, telling us that there was a little boy named Ilya in an orphanage in Samara, Russia.

My favorite pizza place in the known universe, Truby's Wood Fired Pizza, formerly of Whitefish, Montana, has reopened in nearby Columbia Falls ( Read more... )

Ilya was sick the past couple of days, so I had to stay home with him, as Jacki had bottomed out her leave. I tell ya, work's a lot easier than taking care of a clingier-than-usual child. (He wasn't sick enough to want to stay in bed and sleep, doggonit!) I was glad when he was back to his normal self this morning, and we could send him off to ( Read more... )

...and two of them were today ( Read more... )

I don't remember ever agreeing to that ( Read more... )

We're down in FL, spending Christmas with Jacki's folks. Staying with her brother Jason, which is actually working out quite well. Jason's really getting into being an uncle ( Read more... )

That's my little Russian boy! He couldn't wait to get out in the snow, once he got up and saw it out the window, by which time we already had 10-11 inches. So once we got him fed and dressed, we bundled him up and went out in it for a half hour or so. He had a great time just wandering around in the snow, kicking his way through the partial ( Read more... )