Hey, at least my screen name doesn’t refer to a band I’m not old enough to remember… whippersnapper.
Oh my goodness…all I can think of is thank goodness Chef Jr. was at Grandma’s
Mazel Tov on “Sous-Chef”
Congratulations Cheffie!
Car crash: Boo!
Burglar: Hissssss!
Baby: Congratulateroony!
Congrats! Nothing like a new baby to make you appreciate life.
So for someone to come in and not make much noise, but to know where stuff was (maybe?) do you think it might have been someone that knows you? Maybe been in your house before?
I still can’t get over the fact that the thief was in your bedroom. :eek:
Congratulations for the new baby, though!
Mmmmmmmm, baby toes! Very happy congratulations! Babies are a wonderful way to make everything right with the world again!
Oh, Chef Troy, I’m so sorry to hear about all that craziness. I’m glad that you and your family are safe. My sincere congratulations on the little one on the way. 
Wonderful about the baby! I am so happy for you both!
It helps put the other stuff into proportion eh?
<ahem> I suggest Kelli as a name, Kelly if its a boy.
warm smile HEY girlfriend, where the heck have YOU been? E-mail me once a year, will ya?
I can’t rule it OUT, but I doubt it. There have been similar burglaries in the neighborhood recently (GOTTA start reading the neighborhood newsletter), and besides, everything they took was on the dining-room table (which is where they came in) except for Mrs. Chef’s jewelry, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look on a woman’s dresser for her jewelry boxes. At that they didn’t get all of the jewelry on her dresser, and there were other easily portable valuables they missed (such as my digital camera).
Actually Kelly as a boy’s name would be in consideration… my great-uncle’s name was Kelly. At that it’s one of the few decent men’s names in my family tree. Others include:
[ul][li]Vernon[/li][li]Seymour[/li][li]James, Paul, and a couple of other nondescript names that fail my naming requirements[/li][li]Hoke[/li][li]Troy (don’t want to name a kid after myself)[/li][li]Randall (not a bad name but I’m forbidden by my mother to use the name of my deadbeat uncle Randy)[/li][li]Marion[/ul][/li]
Hey, why don’t you folks come up with some suggestions? here are my naming requirements:
[ul][li]The name must not end in an “s” or an “s” sound, and probably shouldn’t BEGIN with an S either.[/li][li]It should be three syllables or longer, or else it should be unusual (but not freaky)[/li][li]Hi Opal[/li]It should not be possible to derive any obvious insulting nicknames from the name.[/ul]
My favorite boys name, by far: Alexander
Padgett is the only other boy’s name I can think of right now, and none of the girls names that I am coming up with work well… Sophia Smith?
Hoke?
Had a car totaled and been burgled, but at the same time! Good gracious ya’ll have my sympathies.
Hearty congatulations on the new chef baby.
I would like to second Alexander as a favorite boys name and add Jonathan. I realize this next suggestion doesn’t fit your criteria, but Kip Smith has a really nice zing to it.
Wow, you guys must be sound sleepers! Well, obviously not ALL the time! Congradulations! 
That’s like getting the ultimate prize for having to deal with all the bad stuff!
Troy, I’m very sorry about your loss. But congatulations to you and Andrea. I don’t want one of the little things around, but I’m glad you do. They can make good pets sometimes, but I’d rather have cats.
Jim
i’m glad to hear that everyone is okay. very, very scary stuff.
congratulations!!! may i suggest looking through “beyond jennifer and jason” the next time you are in a book store. they list names by what people with think of your tyke. ya know, like you can immediately picture a gertrude but not an anne.
Stuff is just stuff
But a BABY!!!
now that’s SOME SHIT!
Call the kid Hunter, in honour of the burglar who’ll never be caught.
Or call the kid Dopey, in honour of us.
Considering you’ve had something like 8 of those little things around, I think you’ve done your turn taking care of 'em.
[sub]ok, I know that you didn’t raise all of them from birth, but still…[/sub]
I suggest the following for a protection system: dig a large hole in the middle of your house, cover the hole with palm branches and place some jewelry in the middle. At the bottom of the hole: bamboo spikes and a Bengal tiger. That’ll show 'em.