Happy Birthday, Heather!

[Heather Hettick]

<<Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray) said:

Couldn't help but grin. Run-in with the kids, husband mumbling excuses for a
sub-par meal, home appliances bunged up, lolling about parks and hoping for
an easy bedtime ... Sounds just like the way my wife and I have been
celebrating for the past couple years.

It *does,* slowly, get better though. Yesterday, we even went to see a movie
(Shrek) to celebrate our anniversary. True, our anniversary was actually
three weeks ago, but we couldn't get a sitter until we got home from
vacation ... and Shrek *was* worth the wait! With Natascha 4 and Evan 2 1/2,
we're gradually getting the feeling that we really might, at some point in
the foreseeable future, have a life of our very own ...

One thing, though: What's T-ball? Tennis?

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)>>
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We waited a long time to have kids and I wasn't sure I really wanted to.  It
has been a lot of work but way more fun that I'd imagined and I'm actually
ready to do it again - due in December.  It has gotten noticeably better
since Jade is potty trained and is starting to do so many things for
herself, and she seems to like to do most of the things we like to do.

We are lucky to even remember our anniversary because it's a week after
Jade's birthday so we are often still celebrating the birthday with
grandparents or something. This year for our anniversary, I organized a
weekend vacation to the mountains of West Virginia while my mother kindly
offered to stay with Jade and the animals so we could have a last little
vacation sans kids.  It was a perfectly beautiful weekend, and we even got
the "honey moon" cabin with Jacuzzi.

T-ball is sort of a practice game for baseball for small children.  Instead
of hitting thrown pitches, the kids swing at a ball balanced on a post or
"T".  They were pretty good at hitting the stationary ball, but their
fielding was half-hearted.  Of course, I wouldn't be too enthusiastic in 90
degree F temperatures either.