The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

Monday morning for breakfast, Danielle made French toast and bacon. The bread for the French toast was my mom’s homemade cinnamon bread, which had traveled many miles to reach us. The eggs were from a local farm. The milk was from a Providence-based dairy. The bacon was from the same farm as the eggs.
My mom [...]

[Read more →]

The wind off the harbor makes the 30-degree ambient temperature feel like 22 degrees, according to Weather.com. To us, out for our morning walk and not having a proper thermometer, it just felt shockingly cold. It’s only November, after all. Not yet Thanksgiving, even.
The wisteria went from green to brown and leafless over night. The [...]

[Read more →]

The other day, Danielle noticed I had stepped in animal feces because it was smeared on my left shoe’s upper. Thankfully, my shoes were outside and not on my feet when she noticed this.
We naturally assumed that this was canine fecal matter. I wondered where I could possibly have stepped in it, as I had [...]

[Read more →]

A lot has happened in the last 10 days since my last post. I won’t go into all of it, but I think a recap is in order.
First of all, I want to say that Hulu.com is an instrument of the devil. Even though we don’t subscribe to cable or have an antenna for our [...]

[Read more →]

When Sean was about 2 or 3 months old, he decided he wasn’t that into  his pacifier. He would pluck it out of his mouth and throw it away as if to say, ‘This nipple-shaped piece of silicon isn’t fooling me, Dad.’ And then he’d resume crying.
At 3 months, he was sleeping on his own [...]

[Read more →]

So last week we spent a long weekend in Washington, D.C. We saw friends and family and more friends, and it was a terrific trip.
All except for the first night.
We left Newport later than we would have liked because we didn’t feel like jumping through our assholes first thing in the morning. We left shortly [...]

[Read more →]

The other day at Starbucks, I told an elderly couple who asked how old Sean was that he was 9 months old. ‘He’s been out as long as he was in,’ I said. As the words were coming out of my mouth I realized that it wasn’t an appropriate thing to say. They both gave [...]

[Read more →]

Last weekend, I had a preview of life as a work-at-home-dad. Danielle had class from 9 to 4, with an hour lunch break at noon, on Saturday and Sunday.
I’ve been amazed at how time-consuming the routine tasks of ‘infant management’ are. Sean would wake up from his morning nap at around 10, I’d feed him [...]

[Read more →]

Aside from a couple of political flare-ups, the weekend went well. My parents arrived late Thursday night after driving all day from Michigan. We ate peach upside-down cake—one of Danielle’s new specialities—and then sipped glasses of Scotch (one rock) while everyone wound down.
Friday, we had a good breakfast at home and then relaxed and played [...]

[Read more →]

Friday morning, I was working on the computer when Danielle said she thought it would be a good idea to drive out to Waverly, New York, to see her grandparents. I hummed and hawed and said, Sure, call them and ask if it’s OK.
Of course it was OK. They hadn’t seen Sean since March. So [...]

[Read more →]