Damning the Dentist
So yesterday Jenn & I left work early with the best of intentions: take Raelyn to her Dental check-up, do some grocery shopping and get home early enough to cook dinner, get the kids to bed and...
View Article99 Problems
After reading this horrific story of parental abuse, neglect and inhumanity, I felt a horrible chill go through my spine. How could a human being, especially a parent, do this to another human being,...
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Parental Math
For your edification and education, especially those without progeny: Rainy Morning Plus (International!) Walk Your Children To School Day Equals Love <3 Photographic Evidence: That is all. Happy...
View ArticleOwen’s Ouchy
It’s not often as a parent that you experience a feeling of monumental dread or fear. I’ve already been there twice in Owen’s lifetime. To expound: last night Owen lost a tooth, his first. In and of...
View ArticleOn and Off
Owen has a very cute habit of extrapolating words or phrases, usually as a foil to something Jenn & I want him to do. Sayings that are in opposition of our desires and more representative of his...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Parenting
Every so often being a parent affords me the opportunity to reference pop culture to my children (and my wife) to mostly oblivious results. Two recent examples worth blogging about: Driving to work...
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My Daughter’s New ‘Do
I’m not going to include a picture because I don’t have one available. Think of this an informational post. Research. My eldest daughter got a new haircut/hairstyle/hairdo this week and, since she’s...
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The Call All Parents Dread
Today’s event(s): “Seth?” “Speaking.” “Hi, this is [redacted] from [also redacted], Owen’s daycare.” “Yes?” (Feeling nervous now) “We wanted to let you know that Owen had an accident, but everything is...
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The Beginnings of Personality
In the life of any child – whether it’s your first or (in my case) your fourth – there comes a time when you can really start to see what they’ll be like as a kid or even an adult. Our youngest, Imogen...
View ArticleNuts!
My nine-year-old daughter brought forth the following question while we drove home from Hogwart’s Camp the other evening: why does boys call “them” “nuts”. I had to stop from driving into a ditch...
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