our little lucy lu is becoming less and less little by the day. it’s hard to believe, but today she turns 5. as cliché as it sounds, it really does seem like yesterday that we were driving to the hospital in paducah preparing to meet her for the first time.

i’m reminded regularly that blogging truly is a completely vulnerable, public diary. my thoughts—for better or for worse—flow forth in relatively unadulterated streams. sometimes it’s brilliant…and far more often, it’s pretty, well, not so brilliant.

recently i was thinking about the fact that whatever i write on the internet will be forever present. yes, forever. it will never. go. away.

my kids will read it.

and my grandkids will probably read it.

and, in the end, i’m ok with that. (i think?)

if you listened very closely a couple days ago, you could hear the collective gasp of the residents of little rock, the state of arkansas & the entire south. why?

because it snowed.

ok, before you go any further, stop reading and go immediately purchase elbow’sthe seldom seen kid. here, i’ll give you the itunes link. ok, got it? now skip to track 6, weather to fly. ah yes, good, right? ok, now proceed with the remainder of this blog post. indeed, yesterday, there was perfect weather to fly and i had the [...]

well, he’s here… yes, max ryan byrd made his triumphant arrival yesterday at 1:16 p.m. if you weren’t aware, we were scheduled to induce yesterday morning (on the awesomely, numerically nerdy 6/8/10) and things went very smoothly. christen was incredible and literally up to the point of pushing, she was calm and really didn’t experience too much pain (relatively speaking, [...]

tomorrow—tuesday, june 8, 2010—max ryan byrd will be born. we’ve been scheduled to induce and while we’re not big fans of inducement, it’s definitely a relief after what has been a month of constant anticipation. it’s a little strange knowing the exact date of your child’s birth, but it certainly does allow for a little planning that we didn’t have [...]

this is part of an ongoing series called 25 in the 2000s. if you want a bit of information about the series, you can find the introduction here. in technology standards, 10 years is a very, very long time. innovative people and programs are constantly looking for new ways to connect people, spread information and make life easier through advances [...]