I sent this out to my farmers that are subscribed to my Cotton Club Newsletter this morning and wanted to share it here as well. It kind of summarizes how our family choses to celebrate Christmas moving forward. It was during Christmas break two years ago that I was on the phone w/ my dad […]
“A Pirate Looks at 50” …and other Random Thoughts on My 50th Birthday!
“One minute you are young and cool, maybe even a little dangerous, and the next minute you are reading amazon reviews for birdseed.” I’ve always tried to be as transparent as possible when I share things here because the goal for me the past decade or so has been to leave behind a collection of […]
Pregnancy: Update at 14 Weeks
This past week has probably been the most stressful week so far during our pregnancy. I have had to take Donna to the Emergency Room two nights in a row because she couldn’t urinate. This has been the weirdest thing in that she has no problems at all going during the day but in the […]
Pregnancy: Thoughts at Week 12
Given our past problems w/ miscarriage early in our 3 past pregnancies, making it to the end of our first trimester (week 12) is a goal that my wife and I were really looking forward to because everything we have read on the topic says that the risk of miscarriage drops dramatically after the first […]
Breaking News: We’re Having a Baby!!!
It’s no secret that my wife and I have wanted to have children for a long time now. Having tried on our own for the better part of our 6 year marriage and enduring months of expensive fertility treatments, out of pocket surgeries, and three painful miscarriages we had decided to pursue another route recently […]
Breaking News: We are having a Baby!
After 4+ years of fertility treatments, medical procedures, injections, and one miscarriage, Donna and I are finally ready to announce to the world that we are pregnant. We are somewhere between 8-10 weeks pregnant according to the nurse who gave us our labs the other day, and yesterday we had our first appointment w/ our […]
Allocating Personal Time / Priorities
Part of my ritual everyday is reading a daily devotional that is waiting on me in my inbox each morning from Streaming Faith. Some mornings I read these and then move right onto email roll into my inbox from another client so I immediately went from the first phone call right into another phone conversation […]
A Few Personal Goals for 2009
Gosh, it’s going to take forever for me to get used to putting 2009 instead of 2008, seems like I just got used to putting 2008 on checks and things the other day. In lieu of a New Years Resolution this year, I have a few personal goals for 2009 that I want to achieve […]
We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
I did this video when Bella came over to visit us for Christmas. She told me that the night before she was excited about coming to see her Un-Cotton!
Merry Christmas!
I just wanted to take a few minutes this morning to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! It is my sincere prayer that we don’t somehow get Frosty the Snowman or Flip and his tongue frozen to the flagpole mixed up with the true meaning of the season! A baby was born who would grow up […]