At home the Kleenex are guarded behind doors--occasionally I am allowed to pull "one" from the box to play with. In Tootz's cabin in New York, a box was left a my level (just once) so I had a blast, well at least until I was discovered.
Married in Alexandria Bay, New York on August 27, 2002 we celebrated the addition of Martha Ann Mitchell on November 3, 2008. Since we didn't know the sex of our baby to be and looked at potential names for our little one, we discussed family name options—Stairvester Shanks seemed to stick the best while Martha continued to grow and thus we are using it for the title of her blog.