The Adventures of Tristan

  We love you Shmoopie!  Happiest of birthdays! Popper #FAIL Guess I should have been in charge of the popper not the camera!  LOL

  Lewyn Jack Kinson!! Born 4.10.21 at 1:02 pm Way to go Sol!! I'm so excited!!!

Well, let's see... Played an awesome team entering the Dallas Cup (from Cali) and gave them a run for their money... So proud of them! Then on April Fool's Day... woke up to this... Bad day for it because I had to get to work and the lawn guys were there. Holt was NOT happy.  T found it amusing until he had to go and pick it all up!! GOOD TIMES! Then I had Easter prep to do... and getting him up to open was tricky! BUT alas, candy, dog toys, a chopper, and donuts win! money from Grammy helped too! Sadly, Easter was a big fat bust! We were at Bebah's letting the dogs run around and just as I was about to take them back home: I was letting the dogs run around back .. like we do EVERY holiday/time we are there. I was getting ready to put them in my car to bring them back to the house, before everybody got there. Ruth Ann came outside and T told her to go back inside because we were putting the dogs up. She came out to me and told me not to leave and said that the dogs could st...

Today is a sad day to write.  Divorce. Truly sad! And a day I NEVER thought would happen to me... again. I found out, the divorce is final.  Your world Tristan is forever altered.  And I did that. I was part of that and I am truly sorry.  Your dad and I were married for a little over 15 years. We were SO different but had so much in common too.  But when the things we had in common all disappeared, so did we.  And for that, I'm truly sorry. We tried Re|Engage twice... two years of our life. We tried years of counseling but what we each needed, the other just couldn't seem to meet. So I chose to leave and keep us safe. I prayed for YEARS and finally knew, I gave all I could and it takes two to mend.  It took two to break.. but it ALWAYS takes two to mend and Daddy just wasn't willing. He said no. But, I will do my very best to honor your dad and be respectful of him.  Our #1 priority is to parent you and parent you well.   I know this doesn't ...

  By  Remy Tumin  and  Jeremiah M. Bogert, Jr. Welcome to a special edition of the Weekend Briefing. Times Square on March 11, 2020. Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times A year ago, we realized everything was about to change. We rushed to the store to get cleaning supplies and canned goods. Our bosses told us to stay home. Millions of students across the country started remote learning. For a while, toilet paper was a hot commodity. And so much more. This week was the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaring a global pandemic, but also of something deeper: It has been a year since we had to unexpectedly and dramatically alter the way we live. Most of those changes are still part of our daily routines. In the early days of the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that “things will get worse before they get better.” Far worse, it turned out. Veronica Salazar at the funeral service in Orange, Calif., for her father, Israel Salazar, who died in January fr...