Just a quick update… last week was Ona’s first birthday!  And to celebrate, the whole family had the plague.  Good times.  Ona brought home some kind of stomach bug and Katy and I both got it also.  We were one super sick house last week and through the weekend.  Nice way to celebrate the baby girl’s first birthday.  Thanks to Mom/Ken and Jamie for coming over the weekend and taking Ona out of the house for a few hours so Katy and I could sleep and recover.  Those were true acts of love, and were MUCH appreciated.

I’ve got a ton more to write, but have to catch my train.  Hopefully I’ll get the ole blogging juices flowing again soon and write more in the next week (upcoming posts: “So much for October, or  how I’ve learned to worry and hate baseball”, “My ‘little’ sister is TEN years old, which makes me, like, older than 10″, “Eric 2.0 has begun again, aka ‘mid-year resolutions’”, and so on… plenty of stuff to bore my friends and family in the coming days).