i wouldn’t say our summer housing has been all good times, mountains and rainbows… unless it were true…

“not so much!”

logan’s response after finding the following fortune in her cookie:

“your principles mean more to you than any money or success”

because natalie recently read the news story about a hiker being killed by a mother bear protecting her cub – when she came across a baby bear on her run home from work yesterday, she didn’t stop to enjoy the unique experience, but rather turned right around and ran back to her office to call for a ride home.

all kidding aside, we were very happy she wasn’t the second bear mauling victim this month…

as if eighty year old men need another reason to want a hot asian girl half their age…

“this is the best day ever”

ethan’s response, not because he was read to for over an hour in the morning, or got to play tennis and baseball, or after walking down the creek the for the first time past the bridge, or after swimming, or because we visited santa’s village amusement park.

no, all these things represent a standard day for mr. ethan. what made yesterday so special was that we didn’t comb his hair in the morning.

dan savage on monogamy:

colbert: have you had extramarital affairs?

savage: it depends. is it adultery if i’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

2011.07.12 interview on colbert report

our master bedroom here in new hampshire has only one entrance and an attached master bath. natalie was in the bed and i was at a makeshift desk nearby talking when we were interrupted from a noise we thought we heard coming from down the hall from the kid’s bedroom.

of course, our first thought was that one of the kids woke up. but the noises coming from the hall weren’t quite right for that. natalie who claims to be prepared, had just a few nights earlier run through the a number of scenarios that didn’t turn out well for us in our remote mountain cabin so it doesn’t take long to move from kid stumbling down the hall to axe murderer.

the truth was almost scarier than axe murder, while natalie and i were looking at each other, logan walked out of our master bedroom bath like the twins apparition from the shining. she didn’t talk, she look at us but slept walked right back to her bedroom.

what made this so surprising is that you might recall i said our bedroom has but one entrance. we were sitting up talking to each other and no one saw logan enter the room… i’ll be keeping my eye on logan a little more closely over the next few weeks…

i wrote to a friend and have been thinking about it enough to repeat here:

i should have been canadian. i love all things canadian. maple syrup, cool weather, hockey and public health care…