vicissitude [vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood]
–n.
1: a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research" 2: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
07 May, 2007
baby Naomi
Welcome, Naomi! (daughter of my friends Amy & Joe)