Us

Greetings from Delaware! (...sounds like a postcard you hope you will never receive.)

If you are reading this, chances are you know who we are and are just checking up to see how much the kids have grown and how much hair I have lost. But if you're not one of those folks and somehow stumbled upon this blog, allow us to introduce ourselves.

We (Stefan and Lori) are a husband and wife team who each gave up jobs that bounced us from sea to shining sea to settle down in, of all places, Delaware. I am the proud father of 12-year-old Alexis Emily, who landed on Planet Earth in 1995. As for Lori and I, we have shared a last name since November 2006, following a torrid love affair separated by 2,100 miles of interstate highway. A few months after a barefoot wedding on the beach sands of Catalina Island, we were blessed with the news of a new addition to our family, and Landon Kenneth was born just three short hours before our first anniversary. (We didn't go out for a romantic dinner last year.)

Following marriage, we lived together in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware - a remarkably well-kept secret of a town tucked amongst an uncountable number of overblown seaside resorts along the East Coast. Living in a resort town was hardly conducive to career advancement for either of us, though, and in August 2007, we relocated from Rehoboth Beach (median age 57) to Newark, Delaware (median age 22, courtesy of University of Delaware). One might say we moved from the coolest town in the state to the second coolest town.

We live in a circa 1850 dairy barn that has been converted into a handful of rustic loft apartments and a private art gallery. A lot of history lies on the 15 acres that remain of the original property, including a six-day encampment of General Washington and Marquis de Lafayette before their famous push to Valley Forge.

But regardless of what happened here in the days of yore, we are happening here now.


Coming up next - Lexy introduces her bubbly personality to everyone, followed by Lori's life, Pre-Stefan, in a nutshell, followed later by the Pre-Lori life for Stefan.


-SB