Meet Noah. He is the 6 week old son of a Formlabs colleague and I was very happy to snatch him up for some baby time. It has been far too long since my last baby fix. He was being heavily guarded but I managed to grab him when attentions were diverted. If not for his ever vigilant grandmother, I might have successfully kidnapped him for the afternoon.

Maya joined us on our journey into Cambridge for the baby party so we could drop her off at the airport afterwards. She is headed to Portugal where she will connect with her best friends, Sarinnagh and Fiona for further travel to Spain and Amsterdam. Although she is a veteran traveller we still worry about our kids when they head out on adventures.

After saying goodbye to Maya we drove into the Seaport District to drop off Kyle’s golf clubs and then on to Lexington for a mystery date. I chose a nice Italian restaurant where we dined before Jeanine revealed our mystery date. She had tickets to see Lori McKenna in concert. McKenna was raised in a Boston family of six children. She met her husband Gene in third grade. They have five kids. And over the last three decades, as she became a wife and mother, she has also emerged as one of the most respected, prolific singer-songwriters in popular music. Her 2016 release The Bird and the Rifle netted three Grammy nominations. Then, she made history: In 2016, she became the first woman ever to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year two years in a row thanks to co-writing Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” and penning Tim McGraw’s no. 1 “Humble and Kind” solo. Both songs also clinched back-to-back Grammy wins for Best Country Song. In 2017, she became the Academy of Country Music’s first female Songwriter of the Year.