Who’s Your Uncle?

My brother‘s wife gave birth to their baby boy last week, making me a certified blood uncle. Now, I’ve been an uncle for some time but that is a relation-through-marriage-step-sibling kind of deal which at least in Nikki’s family isn’t drastically different but there is slightly more familial intensity associated with this bout of unclehood since comparatively my immediate family is much smaller (compare two siblings to Nikki’s five total) which means that in terms of child production, the odds are significant that this will be a less common occurrence.

There were some complications during the delivery but after spending a few days in the hospital I’m pleased to report that Joel Aaron is home with (a relieved) mom and dad. I’m very happy for my brother and his wife; they’re some of my favorite people and they deserve to have a happy, healthy and growing family.

The Return of the Bullet

For lack of a better way to catch up with a few of the assorted and really, really uninteresting things I’ve considered writing about, I now re-introduce the loved and hated bullet point, for your summarized reading (dis)pleasure.

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