Cruddy camera on my phone. But the smile makes up for it.

Carter's missing his buddy Harley, who is back at the vet to have a small tumor cut off his eyelids.

Good

Pope Benedict XVI prayed with tearful victims of clergy sex abuse in a chapel Thursday, an extraordinary gesture from a pontiff who has made atoning for the great shame of the U.S. church the cornerstone of his first papal trip to America....

Bad

More than 800 employees at Texas' 13 large facilities for the mentally and developmentally disabled have been suspended or fired for abusing patients since fiscal year 2004, state officials said Tuesday....

Yo inspired me to write this post.

One of the joys of owning your own website is the ability to tinker. I've been tinkering. Hope you like the new design. As far as I can remember, this is the fourth design this website has had.

I messed up the site design. I should have it fixed soon.

Plus, one of my new favorite pictures:

I don't know what Carter was crossing his fingers for, but I hope he got his wish.

In praise of cheap Halloween costumes.

Carter has croup and I feel guilty for not helping, but I have 'walking pneumonia'. Cilla is a trooper and feels fine, thank God. Hopefully we'll all feel fine for Carter's birthday.

This is why we're going to have to have baths in the bathtub from now on.

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Mat and Kara and the kids came out for ACU's homecoming. Good time had by all.