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Tag: family

After the Storm: thoughts on death, loss and fatherhood

And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

The House of Death

Okay, perhaps the title is a bit hyperbolic but it certainly felt that way. As those of you following along on Twitter and Facebook know, Chez Holtsberry has been visited by a virus from heck of late. Warning: what follow is rather gruesome … First, Ella came how from kindergarten after throwing up at school. [...]

Facing life without man's best friend

The house feels empty; cold somehow.  Even with two adults, two kids, and two cats it doesn’t feel the same.  For the first time in 14 years I no longer have any dogs. The family said goodbye to our beloved yellow lab mix Willow this morning just over a year after having lost our Australian [...]

Flickr updates

For those of you interested in Holtsberry family photos, I have updated some recent photos to my flickr page.  The image you seen here is one example. Ella had read a book where a young girl sleeps out in her yard in a tent and wanted to try it herself.  So I got the tent [...]

Ella at Six Months

Amazing how fast the time goes bye. Ella was six months old at the end of July! She is getting big and she is on the move. She can crawl and pull herself up on all kinds of furniture. Gone are the days of not having to constantly watch her because she couldn’t really move [...]