Category: In My Life

The Bachelor »

I got back to work today.  I worked a bit last week, but since New Year’s there hasn’t been too much going on and today was the first full day back at work.
There’s really very little else to write about today.  I read up on Photoshop CS4, Amanda watched the the first hour of the [...]

Prayer for the Paschals »

Mike Paschal is someone I have worked with a lot as a volunteer at Port City Community Church.  Yesterday I got news that his brother had been in a serious car accident.  His wife and two kids were okay, but Chris, his brother, was thrown through the sun roof.  The news I heard yesterday sounded [...]

Pregnancy, Week 18 »

Amanda Dotsey, 18 weeks pregnant

We’ll still call little Pistachio little Pistachio this week, but as you may have read Amanda and I have been busy narrowing down names, so perhaps by next week we’ll use a real name!  We also no longer need to refer to the baby with the gender-neutral “it” as we can [...]

Undefeated Season Huh? »

Boston College is happy tonight, and so are ABC fans everywhere
I have to start off with this:
Amanda finished her penultimate Days episode and we saw that the Carolina Tar Heels were down by six to Boston College.  Let me give you some perspective here.  All I’ve heard all season is how awesome this Tar Heel [...]

Christmas Undecoration »

Amanda and I started out the day discussing names for our little girl.  We’re wanting to name her after grandmothers, and we were workin with the following names:
Lilian — Isabelle — Maggie — Jane — Jewel — Rose — Melia — May
For a long time our front runner was Lilian Isabelle or Lilian Isabella, and [...]

Responses to the News »

Just thought I’d post some of the e-mail and Facebook comments people have left us about the news that we’re having a girl.
I’m so excited for you guys!!! I can imagine how exciting you both must be. I bet this makes it more real!
~Lisa Hauenstein
Congratulations!!! That is so exciting to find out and start [...]

It’s… »

A GIRL!

A girl!

This morning, before Amanda and I went to see the baby doctor, I told her that while I’ve been really excited to find out what our baby’s sex will be, and I’d be excited to find out what it is, I didn’t think I’d have a huge reaction.  I mean, I’ve said all [...]