It didn’t take us long to realize that if you’re raising a child in Fayetteville, Arkansas you really should have an Andrew Kilgore Portrait hanging in your home. Troy and I are those Rare Parents who have never taken our son to have his pictures done, other than the Church Directory last fall.  Olan Mills jokes are lost on him.  But he’s certainly no stranger to posing for cameras, so a few months ago we finally grabbed Andrew at our Meditation Class at St. Paul’s and set a date to forever capture Huck’s ten year old self in the beautiful style of Andrew Kilgore.  And wouldn’t you know it, Andrew invited Troy and me to join Huck for a family photo session, which means we can forever say we were photographed by the same man who photographed Bill Clinton back in the day! Call me Starstruck.

You can call the rest of my family Nerdstruck, for Troy finally has the Nerd Son he’s always wanted. After rejecting Superheroes and Star Wars for years and years, Huck has embraced Pokemon wholeheartedly. Troy being the Nerd Dad he was born to be immediately jumped on this Nerd Bandwagon and purchased his own deck of cards. Trips to Target now mean long waits at the Pokemon Nerd Aisle while those two Nerd Out.  Right this minute they are up in Huck’s room talking Nerd Trash to each other with all their cards spread out on the floor.  I am so far from a Nerd that I only understand about eight percent of what they talk about now, which means more time for me to read my book.  Win-Win.

A couple months ago we were a little Dumbstruck when we learned we couldn’t live in our Rebecca Street house forever, even though a part of us understood when we signed the rental lease nearly two years ago that this was a Temporary Gift. And since this Mid-Life Crisis has been a series of a Good Thing followed by a Bad Thing followed by a Good Thing followed by a couple Bad Things followed by several Good Things, it didn’t take long for us to find another house to borrow.  Here’s the Story: we 3 have 3 friends who are going to live in Cambridge for the year and it just so happens that those 3 need us 3 to take care of their beautiful Historic District House.  If the Good/Bad Pattern works out the way we hope, we will be buying our own home right around this time next year where we will hang our Andrew Kilgore Portraits and play our Pokemon Cards and say goodbye to the Renters’ Life that we know so well once and for all.

Awestruck Potential.

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