Posted by Joe Cianciotto In my forty-four years on this earth I have had a long and winding love/hate relationship with New Years Eve. As a young adult, I spent considerable energy ensuring that each year’s party or event outdid all previous ones to date, […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto So somehow my wife convinced me that it was a good idea that we take my daughter Hannah for her sixth birthday to the American Girl Store in New York city for Sunday brunch. And I, Joseph Cianciotto, being of sound […]

Posted By Joe Cianciotto Dear Hannah, I can hardly believe that it was only six years ago today that you entered our lives and changed it forever. I chose to post this picture of us together because I think it captures our relationship and who […]

Posted by Joseph Cianciotto So this past weekend we made a family outing to look for carpet runners for our main entryway to the house and brought the nuggets with us…I remember being young and going to stores like this with my parents and it […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto So much of this blog is devoted to my daughters, but I thought I would address something very different given the events of the past seven days. In my hometown of Garden City, many of us learned about a boy in […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto So it would seem that both my daughters are going through, what I can only call, the poop stage. The tell jokes about poop, they draw pictures of poop, they even wait to show theirs to me in the toilet before […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto As I have previously stated in this blog, one thing that I am very committed to as a father is creating the best memories I can for my girls while they are young. To these ends I have once more acquiesced […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto Today was our youngest Sophie’s first day of nursery school. Knowing this I adjusted my travel plans to make sure that I could be there along with Jen. The thing is that with Hannah, she was the first, so everything she […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto So being from NY, and more specifically, Long Island as well as being the recipient of a healthy dose of Italian American heritage, there is the real and present danger of being a complete and total cheeseball. This is something that […]

Posted by Joe Cianciotto Had a pretty great time a couple of weekends ago with Jen and the girls out at east at my parent’s summerhouse in Mattituck. Since mellowing from the insanity of my early twenties and the share houses in Westhampton Beach I’ve […]