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I think that people who say they like green tea must be lying.  It is terrible.

We aren’t getting much sleep, either. The funny thing is, Haines sleeps for a long time at night - we put him to bed between 10 and 11 each night and he usually sleeps until between 4 and 6 in the morning¹. There is just so much to be done right now - cleaning, bottle washing, milk management², work, painting, bottle washing, etc., and I honestly don’t know where the time goes. We get to sleep between midnight at 1 usually, and have lately been getting up at least once with one of the boys, then up when Haines does.

We are obsessed with Scrubs. Seriously. During the last couple of months of MR’s pregnancy, I discovered that Scrubs is on three times every night starting at 10:30 PM Central. And we watch pretty much all of them. Every night. And lately get PO’ed about the Cubs games on WGN (which is the channel that carries back-to-back Scrubs episodes every night), because then we only get to watch one show a night.  Which is clearly not enough.

1. Which might not sound like “sleeping through the night” until you compare it to the alternative: getting up every two hours to feed a newborn. «
2. Have I mentioned the ridiculous amounts of milk? «

I noticed today, more so than other days, the crowds gathered in the lobbies of buildings downtown, all watching news coverage of memorials and observances; reminiscent of the days immediately following the attacks when we would go to work and do nothing but stand in break rooms or troll online for news - waiting for something to happen, holding our breath at what that might be.

Its been said that September 11 was this generation’s Pearl Harbor, our Depression, and perhaps that is true. I know that I cannot, will not ever forget that day.

I was calling my wife when I heard the news. I pray for the victims, and for all of us. I think this is going to be with us for a long time.

We went back to Dauphin Island this summer, and caught crabs again.

I kid¹ . We vacationed again with my parents and my brother’s family, but in a different house this year. All in all, a week is a long time to be away, especially with so many children² , and with two of them less than three months old³ , but all in we had a good time - especially the boys.

1. See, that’s a crab in the orange bucket that Papa or Peter caught.  Bigger here. «
2. We now have three, obvs; and Peter has two little girls now. «
3. Drew is just a couple weeks older than Haines «