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She calls him Peter Pan 2008-05-29 21:12:30 I’m not quite sure how it happened. It seems I should have just gone along with the
guinea pig.
All I’ve ever wanted to do, since meeting my wife, was give her all she wanted. Easy right?
It wasn’t so long ago, just 4 years now, that we hated our home. We wanted out more than anything [...] Read more:calls
, Peter
The Doctor is in 2008-06-03 22:10:00 My wife is a third generation medical professional. She’s a Registered Nurse on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to be exact. When you couple this with the fact that we speak TO our children rather than speaking down at them (do you have an owie?! Let me see that cutsy wutsy?) it creates some interesting [...] Read more:Doctor
Head Heart Hands Health 2008-06-06 05:45:00 I was not the kid that was part of a boy scout troop nor was I sent off to summer camp. I imagine that had I been I may not have gotten into some of the trouble I did. All the good kids must have been at one of those camps or activities.
With summer bearing [...] Read more:Heart
, Hands
, Health
Nuclear Waste 2008-06-09 06:00:02 OK, so I’m in a cereal rut.
Writing the last blog (
The Golden Torus and The Enchanted Pants) entry brought back memories from when my son was still in diapers and started eating cereal. He was already eating table food, when my wife and I started discussing getting him some fun, sugary cereal as a “dessert [...] Read more:Nuclear
ZacBrowser: Zone for Autistic Children 2008-06-11 08:15:19 In my day job a couple of my responsibilities include managing a network and helpdesk that supports over 2000 end users. Thankfully I love technology and thus my job. It is particularly great when I come across technology that I can review and write about here. Technology that has the potential to better the world [...] Read more:Autistic
, Children
10 years down… 60 to go 2008-06-14 22:20:00 Ten short years ago, on June 13th 1998, my wife and I wed. There were so many people back then that thought we wouldn’t make it. They figured she would wise up to the fact that she was marrying a guy six years her senior with two children and one divorce already clouding his vision.
I [...]
No title 2008-06-28 22:59:00 Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life [...]
The Shyster 2008-06-23 06:00:10 Nine months have come and gone in the blink of an eye. Our brand new addition has become one big, sturdy, rolly-polly bundle of sweetness. She seems to come up with some new antics that keep the grownups around her entertained and enthralled.
Recently, the little baby learned how to make smooching noises, not unlike the [...]
A lesson in communication 2008-06-20 21:45:00 This past week in the office has been a harrowing one. Much of this has to do with the fact that I will be away on business the coming Monday and Tuesday which means stuffing as much into the week as possible. The other reason is due to communicating (or trying to) with various executives [...] Read more:lesson
, communication
Par for the course 2008-07-11 10:30:00 Whew, what a weekend. I took several days off and went camping with my son and his Cub Scout troop. I vowed to make this tip different from last. This time I came PREPARED!. I packed so much stuff for our 3 day-2 night trip that if we packed an extra toothbrush I think I [...] Read more:course
Something in the water? 2008-07-09 22:45:00 I believe I’ve mentioned before that I come from a family of six. There are four siblings from my mothers first marriage and my younger brother and I from my mothers second marriage. We aren’t a close family. Despite this dysfunctional family unit (we were dysfunctional before it was cool) I have always thought a [...] Read more:water
Polar bears prefer milkshakes 2008-07-07 22:30:00 Our household is not unlike most others with small children in that when evening comes the bedtime ritual kicks in. Our girl have a pretty strict bedtime that lands them in bed by 8:30 PM.
The ritual actually starts right after dinner and, depending on the evening, begins with bath time followed by pajamas and then [...] Read more:Polar
Those things that shape you 2008-06-29 22:10:00 When my oldest kids were twelve and eight we lived in very small house in the city. We were a few blocks from a small local grocer on a very busy road. We used to walk the streets that crossed through the neighborhood pretty often and it was only a matter of time before my [...] Read more:things
Milestones 2008-07-28 08:20:41 My 10 month old daughter started crawling this week. After weeks of being a hair’s breadth to crawling this has got to feel pretty good for her. She’s been crawling backwards for a month and it was getting frustrating for her to get further away from her goal every time she tried moving towards a [...]
Blame it on the big kids 2008-07-23 21:50:00 The last couple of weeks found me walking in the door to a mixture of gun fire and children screaming. Not real guns mind you, but those found at the end of a child’s wrist looking astonishingly enough like their hand. I casually dismissed this the first few times.
“We don’t play with real, or [...] Read more:Blame
Do your kids like you? 2008-07-21 08:48:31 The other day I was looking through some old school work my three year old daughter had completed. We like to decorate our dining area with whatever art projects she brings home and rotate them out every couple of months. We’ve also started doing this with our two year old as she has become quite [...]
No good deed 2008-07-16 07:15:00 We try to teach our children right from wrong. Really we do. We also like to sit back and see what they are able to figure out on their own. This last is purely for the entertainment value.
Recently we were all moving from the living room into the kitchen when I saw, from the corner [...]
How to punish good parents 2008-07-14 07:15:00 I’m not terribly fond of people and when they are presented in large hoards my tolerance wanes even more. Maybe that first sentence stands to be corrected a bit. I’m not terribly fond of stupid, lazy, inconsiderate people.
This last July 4th found my family and I settling in for the fireworks display at the local [...]
Party Crasher! 2008-08-11 07:00:33 Earlier this summer my family and I went to a local park, with a few dozen other families, to attend a Cub Scout Crossover Ceremony. This is where each scout progresses on to the next level of scouting
The Ceremony was nice. My son got a few awards, and we took lots of photos. I [...] Read more:Party
Best in show 2008-08-03 07:01:03 I’ve mentioned before that
we are a 4-H family. Each year for the past several years my 13 year old daughter has submitted an entry in the horse lovers project. She has always done pretty well. This year, however, she did great and took home the “Best in show” ribbon.
In past years the project has [...]
Little Miss Magic 2008-08-01 22:35:00 I’ve always been a Jimmy Buffet fan. I love lyrics that tell a story and Jimmy’s do just that.
There is one special song that has always encapsulated so much of what being a Dad means to me, especially a dad to girls.
I listen to this and it makes me want to keep them small.
Close [...] Read more:Magic
, Little Miss
Read for the Record 2008-08-22 22:45:00 I’ve been a book reader for as long as I can remember. I have an ability to get completely lost in a story. I can hear the dialects the author has embraced. I can smell the tobacco in a field of its leaves. I can feel the cotton brush across my cheek as the wind [...] Read more:Record
a season of lasts 2008-08-19 21:15:00 My boy is entering his senior year in High school in just a few days. Yesterday evening I watched as his football team scrimmaged. I sat alone in the stands and considered how my little boy has grown into a young man of great heart and stature. He really is a unique kid, of [...]
on being resourceful 2008-08-13 21:40:00 It can be pretty hilarious, being a parent. I particularly enjoy watching the kids figure things out, identifying ways to get around the system. As
Mike mentioned not too long, his littlest girl got around not crawling forward by pointing her back-side at her target. She eventually figured out the forward motion and I can [...]
What does that mean? 2008-09-13 22:40:00 “Hey sweetie, take a look out the door.”
“What?”
“Do you see how the sun has gone behind the trees and there isn’t much light left in the sky?”
“Yes”
“Look up. What do you see?”
“What are those?”
“Those are bats. Don’t they look great flying around up there! Cool isn’t it?”
“Why are they up there now?”
“Well, most bats are [...]
Equal Opportunity Employer 2008-09-09 21:30:00 Well, the first day of preschool has come and gone. I took the morning off work to watch the ship set sail and sail it did. She barley even looked back to see if we were still in the room. We were among the last of the lingering parents.
We waved to our little girl and [...] Read more:Equal
, Opportunity
, Employer
the exercise yard 2008-08-31 14:50:00 I have a soon to be four year daughter that will be attending full blown pre-school in a couple of short weeks. This is bothering me just a bit. You would think that with a son graduating high school next year and a daughter entering the eighth grade I’d have a handle on the fact [...]
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