Sleeping the Sleep of a Man Well Loved

Kevin is sleeping the blissful sleep tonight of a man adored. I think his eyes were closing before his head hit the pillows.

It's hard work being adored.

He and Kate went out to dinner--just the two of them--for probably the first time since those conference trips when she was still in high school. He said walking downtown with Kate on a Saturday evening really is like Norm entering Cheers--everybody knows her.

He sealed the deal on his wonderfulness when he hauled Evan, Andrea and Hannah off to DQ for banana splits at 10 p.m. after they had been swimming in our hotel pool for 4 hours.

You don't make a lot of enemies with spontaneous dinners downtown and banana splits an hour after bedtime.