Well, I have to say that the highlight of my weekend was the demonstration that my sons Adam and Zach (age three, for those of you new to the campaign web site) gave my wife last night of Bruce Springsteen’s patented running knee slide, which they had just learned from watching a YouTube video of ‘70s-era Bruce singing “Thunder Road” on stage. A close second was the giant biscuit that we made on Saturday morning, and that Adam is modeling here. It was leftover dough from a batch of non-mutant biscuits we made; what is frightening is that he actually ate most of it.

As for the campaign, that’s not going so bad either. I was all over this weekend—visiting teachers at the annual DSEA conference in Dover, stopping in at the 23rd Representative District’s annual spaghetti dinner in Newark, visiting the Wilmington Police/Fire basketball game, meeting with a committee person in Bear, stopping in at the New Castle County Progressive Democrats/Stonewall Democrats reception….But the visit that will stick most in my mind was one I had on Friday night with a group of adoptive parents who wanted to talk about their concerns with the state’s child welfare system. These parents are absolutely extraordinary people—they have taken in kids who they knew were likely to have serious challenges, many of them straight from the foster care system, loved them and struggled with them, and made huge sacrifices so that their kids could have a chance to succeed. As you probably know (or, if you don’t, you should click through the web site some more), the kids of this state are the focus of my campaign. These adoptive parents are heroes, and we should be doing whatever we can to help them and our many foster families provide for the kids that they have stepped up and taken in.