one of the nice side benefits of having such a special baby is that not only do we get a chance to meet complete strangers who know all about odin but we also get to reconnect with friends that we haven’t seen in many, many years.

it might have been six years since the last time we had a chance to see miss rachel, so it was a super nice holiday treat to find out she was in town and very much hoping to see odin ( and perhaps us, too 🙂 ).

well that was quite a year!

as i look back a year ago ( or two or or three or or four ), it’s odd to see what i found remarkable. it is just like that commercial.

having a baby really does change everything.

i suppose that i could hope that 2005 would be a little less eventful than 2004, but if there’s one lesson we’ve (re)learned this year it’s that sometimes things don’t turn out quite the way you planned and the best you can do is make some lemonade if life hands you some lemons.

happy new year!