Yey, Pirates!

Thanks, Amy!!

Brad:

My pirate name is:

Iron Sam Read

A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you a tough person. Even through many pirates have a reputation for not being the brightest souls on earth, you defy the sterotypes. You've got taste and education. Arr!

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Stacie:

My pirate name is:

Calico Grace Rackham

Often indecisive, you can't even choose a favorite color. You're apt to follow wherever the wind blows you, just like Calico Jack Rackham, your namesake. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

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And you??????

Moonshine...

Tonight, our friend Amy brought over some moonshine that a friend of her's got in Tennessee. One of those, "put money in the mailbox and in the morning, if the flag is up, the delivery has been made" sort of deals... no kidding.
Abby, let's just say, was excited about it. We knew she was a "booze hound", but apparently she prefers the hard stuff.

Abby with Amy

So, like 2 weeks ago...

Ok, so we're a little behind!

Over Labor Day weekend, we were able to go to NC and visit Ryan, Danielle, and Jack. We had a lot of fun hanging out, playing with the baby, playing with the dogs (Abby met Bo), and playing a 2 day long game of poker! :) We spent part of one day in Raleigh and went to a yummy Irish bar/restaurant. This picture was from the bar we went to before that, but we just had to share - this boy knows what's good!! :)



Thanks, Ryan and Dan, we had a great time!!! We hope to see you again soon!

5 year anniversary...

What is there to say, the day after the 5th anniversary of 9/11/01? Neither of us have really been able to talk much about that day even now and it disgusts us that movies are already being made, etc. With this sense of avoidance, I wasn't sure how to deal with yesterday, especially at school. I decided to talk about it a little bit with my classes and realized that most of them had no or very little idea about what had happened. But, you figure they were 5-8 years old when it happened... So, we talked about it a lot, I explained briefly what happened, they asked a lot of questions. What I thought would be really difficult ended up being really important. We can never forget. They need to learn about it so that they never forget either. It was strangly cathartic to attempt to explain it to the students. Their responses were varied, but interesting.

Amy posted this on her site and reminded us about Jon Stewart's monologue at the beginning of his first show back 9 days after the attacks. Watch it if you're interested and when you have the time (it's about 9 minutes long).

(In case the embedded movie doesn't show up, this should be the link... Daily Show clip )