Family tops all, and I'm shamelessly proud of our children, Shana Novak (left),  Amanda Novak Troutman, and Michael Tomaloff (top left), and Christopher Tomaloff, all of whom are now over 30! Many of our past sellers and buyers knew those kids when ...

     Shana is assistant director, Development Services, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She's the world traveler in the family and treated Bill to a trip to London in '07. Other recent trips include Prague & Budapest, Germany, Dublin, South Africa ... you get the idea. .

     Amanda is married to Patrick, and they're wonderful parents to Noah and Lilly. As an education major, she has the patience for a busy 6-year old and a 4-going-on-13 year old and also works part-time outside of her home. Amanda passed on to all of them her love of Disney. The family lives too far away in Raleigh, NC, but I can't talk Patrick into permanently braving Wisconsin winters.

     Michael is a trained cook (I say "chef" but he tells me otherwise). He's cooked at well-known restaurants in Madison such as Harvest and L'Etoile and was sous-chef at UW's U Club until he got burned out. Currently Mike is working for Left Bank Wine, a distributor in Madison. Mike got his passions for motorcycles and sci fi from Bill and his gardening vigor from his Great-Grandmother Kuczynski. He shares his life with fiancee Ellen and cats Yoshi & Pearl.

     Christopher is a percussion performance major who teaches private percussion lessons (snare, drum set, marimba) in Antioch, Ill. and in Racine, performs on his marimba at private events, instructs and writes for the Kenosha Beats indoor drum line and Kenosha's Blackwatch Band. He obviously "lives" percussion but also enjoys golf and cooking.