My mother in-law was here over the weekend to "get some Christmas shopping done." I put that in quotes mainly because we all know that the primary objective of the visit was to get her hands on her grandson. But I dig...

Because my parents were in town last weekend, Nena and I were able to sneak out of the house, sans Jackson, and have dinner together for the first time in a while. It doesn’t happen much these days, so we try to take full...