When you have a moment, check out our friend Lisa’s blog Finding Kajal. Lisa lives across the street from us (indeed, our apartments are so close, we could use a soup-can phone to chat) and was one of the first people to welcome us to the neighborhood. She has been a big part of Caleb’s life since we moved to the North End, and has also been just as big a part of my, Megan’s and certainly Nadine’s lives as well.

Rather than preface what her blog is about, I’ll simply encourage you (emphatically) to check it out for yourself. With that, I leave you with a snippet from her first post to gnaw on:

“A favorite classic author of mine (whose name escapes me which shows how scary jetlag can be) wrote that family is not always those whose blood we share but those for whom we would shed blood. Some of us are lucky to have both… great family we were born with… and those friends in life we come across or children we come to call our own. In my case, I am definitely one of the lucky ones.”