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Julie and I had a brief conversation this afternoon that was both anti-dramatic and failed to deviate in the least from our normal sort of conversation.  I found it enjoyable nonetheless.
The office door opens and Julie appears; a wide-eyed. pig-tailed 1-year-old peers out from behind her leg.
“Hey Joe, What do you want for dinner?”
Myself, only [...]

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Tonight Julie and her Mom took the hour-and-a-half drive up to Strong, leaving both Becca (my 8-year-old sister-in-law) and Amelia in my care.  Although I would not normally categorize this as “one of my favorite things,” we actually have been doing alright.  Becca and I played a lot of guitar hero while Amelia bounced around, [...]

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That’s right, the rumors are true. I’ve moved.
Joedonahue.org has been dormant these last couple months as I have migrated my blog from one web host to another, and tonight it is finally up and running.
I’ve also stopped going to grad school full-time, quit my job, packed up everything we own, and moved 1500 [...]

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This past week has brought with it two monumental events in my life: a new filter and a good night’s sleep.
Now, a new air filter would normally be trivial, but I had the joy of putting it in myself. Steve Beckerle advised me to get a K&N air filter (and it was actually him [...]

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If a picture is worth a 1000 words, than I have just added 240,000 more words to my flickr page. I realized that I have not uploaded photos to flickr since Mia first came [...]

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Yesterday marked off one month since Amelia was born. We started to sing “Happy Birthday” but half-way through, she began crying. Not completely unexpected. It has been an incredibly long month, and has brought with it some of the most happy - and most frustrating - times of my life. We [...]

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Although my family has since left and (after a day of typical airport woes) arrived home in Maine, this video was shot just after they arrived. I had not seen them since Christmas and the first thing my Dad does is… take a nap. nbd.

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Long awaited, much anticipated. At 10:43am on June 4th, little Amelia Kathryn finally came out and joined us. Julie did go through with a C-section due to “macrosomia” - large baby syndrome but we were surprised to find her weigh in at 8lbs, 4ozs and 20 inches long. I had the [...]

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This is what Julie would say to those who she called following her final doctor’s visit last week. We were advised to proceed with a C-section, and after working through some scheduling conflicts, finally landed on Monday, June 4th. Around 10am we should have our long-awaited baby girl. We still don’t have [...]

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