JC McDowell and the Family Unit

-Spanish Proverb

Sometimes I receive a comment that despite not being entirely positive, offers a valid point and I feel compelled to share it in full.  This is obviously a personal blog shared by friends and family and stumbled across by others.  Some of whom have become friends.

To a staggering degree we share honestly and openly [read more...]

One Word- WOW!

OK, this may not apply to families with health care coverage provided through their employers- but for everyone else…

Along with 52% of the country we are recipients of the WIC program which supports “women, infants, and children” up to five years of age.  We found out about this program through the medicaid for [read more...]

At least we’re planning to get back on th road again. I’ve started planning our trip out to Arizona and the ensuing months of travel and it’s daunting. It’s a good thing we like to travel.
View Travel Route from St. Simons to Tucson in a larger map

With the new wee one along, we [read more...]

At 12:04pm on November the 20th,2009 Charley Bella McDowell was born! We thought for sure she was going to arrive early. Two weeks before her due date intermittent contractions started and we prepared for the ‘iminent’ arrival. That was a long two weeks! Hil’s due date came and went and our [read more...]

The question comes up;

What are you going to DO on a boat for 4 months?

The easy smart alecky answer is:

As little as possible

But that’s not really the case.  Especially this year.  We bought the 1993 Gemini 3200 Catamaran in San Carlos, Mexico and have yet to spend a single night aboard.  The boat was a [read more...]

Not exactly doldrums, we are waiting patiently for baby to make her grand entrance any time now.

I’m back in St. Simons with Hil and Emma James.  My Dad drove out from Arizona to help out with Emma.  I’m still hustling around to make a buck before we head west for the winter.  Remodeling, Yard Sales, [read more...]

Not recently.  Actually it was 21 years ago.

I’m a grown man, a soon to be father of two children, a husband and yet the memories from an event 21 years ago are still as painful (maybe more) than the day it happened when I was 18 in high school.

The internet is a wonderful tool.  Instant [read more...]

For the Weekend…

I was accepted into the Mustang Mania Fall Festival in Bradenton, Florida for the Mini Donut Booth last weekend and I drove 9 hours from Atlanta to Bradenton on Friday to be there to setup early Saturday morning.

The festival was a fundraiser for the music program of the local high school.  [read more...]

A youngster innocently asked me recently why don’t we just live in a house like everyone else?  Boy, is that a complicated question.  I was thinking about how to respond so a 14 year old boy might understand based on his little but all important world.

I don’t think there’s much point delving into deep philosophical [read more...]