Category Archives: Parenthood

2009 – A Retrospective

2009 flew past, didn’t it? Quite a bit better than 2008 I must say, and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store.

Well, first things first. 2009 was definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, dominated by the one we call G-Man, G-Money, the gooch, the goon, Mr. Moo, and every so often we [...]

Have Baby Will Travel Abroad, and Last Men Standing

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Call us nutty but we booked it—a trip to Europe with the wee one. Grey will be just over one year old when we head off to Switzerland to visit his Uncle Todd and Aunt Pee Wee with a stopover in London on the way home to see my high school bud Aaron. [...]

Slacking on Blogging

I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It probably correlates to the fact that I can either blog or use my scant free time doing things that actually matter. In a bulleted list, here’s what I’ve been up to:
– Parenting! Grey turned 10 weeks on Monday and things have definitely gotten better. He cries less [...]

Blow-by-Blow: Our 27-Hour Journey to Parenthood

Everybody has a story of their birth: here’s Grey’s.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
From 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Amy, Athena and I slept in a little after a busy Saturday; I had played soccer in the afternoon and worked on trying to finish my final papers for school while Amy ran some errands and cleaned the [...]

A Grey Day

Hey! Say hello to the newest edition to the family, one Mr. Greyson Hergenrader. He arrived at 11:47 AM on Monday, May 4th and all involved are doing well. More stories and details to follow…

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Nesting Essentials

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While one of us is making sure we have a clean house, plenty of clothes, and a welcoming nursery for the new arrival, I have been taking care of important business by buying a new color ink cartridge, some iron-on transfers, and had Amy pick up some blank [...]

The Post of Many Things

Last “Confident Homecoming” class last night. We determined that the misery was all down to the instructor because the last few weeks haven’t been bad. We’re confident about coming home now. It’s just coming home with a baby that complicates things.
Also, on the car ride over Amy insisted on telling me the longest story ever [...]

April Showers and an Alarming Lack of Motivation

Amy attended our first baby shower yesterday, expertly hosted by a couple of our great friends, and came home with lots of wonderful schwag. Watching the nursery fill up with stuff drives everything home. At this point, I think we’re as ready as we can be. I hope.
I, however, stayed home with Amy’s dad and [...]

For Some Reason, I Find This Shipping Notice Hilarious

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The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
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More Free-Flowing Truth From the Fount of Knowledge

For our birthing class, we’re now three classes down and three to go. We wince often, crack jokes, and are probably pretty annoying. Amy, who has a decade of nursing experience and for the last eighteen months has been practicing as a Nurse Practitioner in Women’s Health, has problems with some of the medical half-truths [...]