Spice of Life

It's no secret that one of my favorite shows EVER is Parenthood and the next episode is the series finale so I'm pretty bummed.  I've been reflecting on it lately and have come to a realization.  It is such a real to life show, so raw and full of emotion.  It's about a large family, the patriarch and matriarch and their children and grand children.  I am an only child so I can't relate to being one of four siblings and the fact that they all live in the same city, have family dinners regularly and are quite involved in one another's lives.  However I do relate very much to Amber (one of the grand kids).  Her mom Sarah had been a sort of "black sheep" in the family and gone through a lot, including a divorce.  So Amber had grown up without much of a fatherly presence in her life.  Now, at the end of the show she is having her own child and is reflecting on her fathers way of reacting.  He sent a crib for her baby but was not there to help buil...

"This is the best day ever!!" is something our son says about every other day.  Often "this is the worst day ever" will follow if his sister bites him or something doesn't go his way, yeah kids are fickle.  It's become a really cute thing he does though, so much so that we want to get a shirt made for him.  Well, I had one of those days recently and I've been thinking about it so much I figured I might as well write about it. Our dear friends James and Tressa got married.  A couple days before the wedding I was talking to my mom about when we first started to get to know James and how my first thought had been "do I know a nice girl for him?".  He's just one of those great guys that you hope will one day meet someone as amazing as he is...and he did!  We are so happy for them and it was so exciting to be able to brew beer for their wedding and watch everyone enjoy it.  It was a beautiful wedding and of course when Tressa walked down the a...