Anniversary

Kyle came to us four years ago. A good thing.  An amazing thing.

We project that our lives will change gradually, according to our careful plans.  But in retrospect, life changes dramatically in an instant.  One day you're a dimly-aware guy with an oddly-distended wife, the next day your are some kid's Daddy.  You putter around and plan to be a harmless old drunk in a few years, and suddenly there are all these Romanians on board who need parenting (and they are Baptists, shocked by Christians near alcohol).  You are scouting out a propsed daughter-in-law, and unexpectedly a kid who turns out to be a lacrosse player has moved in and the DIL is history.

Now if only one of the dogs would die peacefully in its sleep.  Or both dogs...