Happy Father’s Day Braydon!

above ~ May 28, 2008, 10:43pm. St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA. Meera’s Birth.

below ~ February 3, 2005, 5:00pm. Hotel Montana, Port au Prince, Haiti. The Eve of Our Homecoming with Owen and Kyle.

The two best experiences of my life: 1) adopting Kyle and Owen [our meeting them, the orphanage, and the week in Haiti to finish their adoption and get them home], and 2) giving birth to Meera [a 26-hour-Pitocin-induced-labor that ended in an emergency c-section — read Meera’s birth story here]. Both of these Top Two Experiences were only possible because of the unified power of me and my life-partner, my soul-mate, my co-parent, my best-friend, my Braydon. It was through those two experiences that I saw the core of who he is. And trust me: it is a good, good, solid, solid core. The best core I know. This guy is the rich center of my very rich life. Happy Father’s Day Braydon!

above ~ Today, Father’s Day 2014, 7:38pm. A gorgeous June evening on campus at Lehigh University; we’re the only ones around (students are gone for the summer), and it is as if we are living in our own beautiful vast deserted park; we’re just home from the movie Malificent— which we LOVED!— during which Meera and Braydon talked, analyzing every detail of her #1 most favorite story, through the entire movie; before the movie we had Braydon’s choice — Thai food lunch outside, with his favorite Thai lychee tea — where we relished in the delight of watching our twin boys eat tofu summer rolls wrapped with rice paper and dipped in peanut sauce, potstickers with thai chili sauce, chicken satay, pad thai, and red curry; we’re dog-sitting Ryan’s dog this weekend and he’s catching bubbles from Meera; Owen is about to ride his bike down a set of stairs; we’re having a glass of wine; enjoying a moment sitting together in Adirondack chairs absorbing this rich life that we’ve created. Thank you Braydon ~ for all that you do to keep our axis spinning.