OK...you can't say I didn't warn you. In my last post on May 31, I told you it was going to be a busy summer, and indeed it has been. It's been so busy, that I haven't had a chance to write until now.

I wanted to take a few minutes to add a little context to the pictures that we posted since I last wrote. I meant to post some pictures of the fun that was had while Drew was at his workshop in Italy, but the pictures all live on my phone and I haven't gotten around to it yet. They are all on Facebook, and I think most of you are also connected to us there, so if you've seen them there, you've seen all there is to see.

Now for the pictures posted here: Sam is my BFF Lisa's son. I held him when he was six weeks old, and now he is 19 and fresh out of his freshman year at Brandeis. He and a friend spent a couple months touring around the Western US this summer, and he was gracious enough to come over for dinner one night so we could feed him and have him pose with our child.

The other fabulous people are Drew's sister Deborah and her family -- wife Sarah and son Solomon. They came and stayed with us for about a week at the beginning of July. We had a great time, and Solomon and Michael had fun bonding, as I think is evident from the video of them being big goofballs in the back seat of the car.

Next up on the docket is my parents, who will be coming out in mid-August to celebrate my dad's birthday. I'm sure there will be more pictures, and likely more verbiage after that visit, so hopefully you can contain yourselves until then.