Last month, on January 3rd, Eddie turned the big Four Oh. As is his recent custom, he took the day off of work to laze around at home, them went to play hockey, then came home to lemon merangue pie, his favorite. Saturday of that week, our neighbors Michele and Melisa(one ‘l’ and one ‘s’, respectively) threw a party for him. We had other neighbors over, and all our kids. We had loud music, dancing in the living room, presents, cards and, um, a few refreshments. Eddie had a good time and stayed out late like a big boy. In the picture of us drinking Koolaid, the brunette is Melisa(her kids are Mason, 11, and Lucas, 6) and the blonde is Michele(her kids are Gabby, 7, and Desi, 5). You’ll always find all our kids in one of our three houses, sometimes in all three house at once, sometimes, like this night, in the same house.