My sister-in-law, Jennifer Douma, is in Malawi this summer opening an orphan care facility and she’s blogging about her experience at itatuorphancare.com.
On the site there’s a donation widget thingamajig – if you feel you can spare a buck or two to help Jennifer setup and buy supplies, she’d appreciate it and so would the [...]

The huz and I are happy to announce that our little fetus – code name “Kielbasa” – is 11 days old today!
Finnegan Marek Holke Douma – he’s a little meatball at 5lbs 3oz – was born July 10th at 8:47am in Alliston, Ontario with great support from Caring Hands Midwifery and the good folks at [...]

Whenever I think of “hair helmet” I think of that 1987 Avalon/Funicello classic, “Back to the Beach”. Didn’t see it? Oh well… there’s a scene where Avalon’s awesome punk-kid is making fun of him for his, you guess it, hair helmet.
Twenty years later, with trucks of hair product in tow, I see the concept of [...]