How to properly order a San Miguel beer
You will understand the headline later in the story so I ask you to bear with me as I write this entry mostly for myself to preserve the details of a great weekend. This past weekend Sharon's parents along with her sister and her husband, and her other sister came to...
“Marley And Me” and Me
Over the weekend Sharon and I watched the movie Marley and Me. We had been told NOT to watch it as it is pretty sad and it might hit too close to home. Well it did. And I am still affected by it. What happened is we were hanging out Sat morning and looking for...
Feet found in shoes washed up in Washington
This is one of my greatest fears, that I will walk up to a shoe to photograph it, and there will be a foot still in it!! I guess there could have been as I did not look in them for feet. I came across this article in Outside Magazine and I just had to repost it here....
Life as a Daddy so far
First of all I am having to type this while Nora is laying on my desk in front of me, squirming like crazy and getting quite fussy. Time to hand her back to Mommy soon, my milk has yet to come in :) With everything going on, newborn baby, work overload, the 365...
Volume 3 due to be released at Thanksgiving
The 3rd Volume of the One Shoe Diaries entitled Lost Soles Lead to Hope Found is currently scheduled to be released on Thanksgiving of 2009. This will be just in time for Christmas Orders to be taken and shipped in time for the Holidays. **hint-hint** Just as the...
Best of 365: September
Here are photos selected from the contributor's galleries submitted for the 365 Project. They reflect several unique and different perspectives on our world. Quantity is going down each month. It started with 31 contributors and is down to 12 :( But the quality keeps...
Nora turns 2 weeks old!
Well time is going by pretty quickly and it is amazing to see the changes that have taken place with Nora already. she is starting to look less like the angry old man when she came out, to a sweet baby girl. She is definitely growing. She started at 6lbs 4oz, and went...
Nora’s Birth Story (part II)
Okay, so there we were in the delivery room, I had just cut the cord. They then placed her on Sharon's chest and we both cried again, all three as a family at last. The moment was perfect. But as with all moment they are fleeting, but the memory of a great one gets...
Nora’s Birth Story
(As a preface, I must tell you I am typing this entry as I sit in the dark at the hospital with Sharon taking a rest and baby Nora in her bassinet sleeping snug as a bug in a rug right next to me making the cutest cooing noises ever, all is perfect in the world at...
Inducement day
Well the time had come, we spoke with the doctor and told him we are ready if Nora is. He had no problem inducing as long as Nora's lungs were fully developed which meant having an amniosynthesis. But we did have to wait also until two days later because he had his...