I woke up this morning at 4 instead of my usual 5 AM. It was something about the crusty eyed glance at my watch betraying me. I was sure that it said 5:15….past time, past time, past time….time to get … Continue reading
Category Archives: family
I’m, in typical fashion for an early bird, the only one up the morning after graduation night. I watched our first-born child graduate last night. It was a night of violent weather and the need for flexibility. Kind of like … Continue reading
My daughter found this on YouTube…pretty funny. “I think we all know who the real boss is. The real boss is the one who does…the tickling.” Our three-year old has, seemingly all of a sudden, gotten lucid. It’s strange to … Continue reading
“Hide it under a bushel? NO! I’M GONNA LET IT SHINE.” How big is a bushel? And just what am I hiding my light under? I wrote a blog post about Lloyd Kahn yesterday…and it got me thinking about “right … Continue reading
We promised our three-year old that we would get a dog. He’s not the kind of kid who harps on this dog promise. He excitedly reminds us that we are going to get a dog sometimes, but he really doesn’t … Continue reading
After my father passed away a couple of years ago, we were looking through some of the old photo albums my sister had found. One of the albums was a bunch of snapshots that he’d collected from when he was … Continue reading
One of my favorite scenes in any Indiana Jones movie is the one where he gets an opportunity to pick the Holy Grail. I think it was in the third movie…Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Anyway, he’s in this … Continue reading
I bought a load of logs the other day. Jenny said that when they delivered it in the tandem dump truck that the ground shook when the driver dropped the load. It is a big load o’ logs. Not only … Continue reading
A parent’s goal is to make things better for their family. At least, I think that’s what a parent’s goal should be. I changed out the starter for the fourth time in the little Toyota truck my daughter drives … Continue reading
Any parent worth his or her salt is going to say that they’d do anything for their children. “Why, I’d go to the ends of the earth, I’d jump into the fire, I’d give my heart if they needed a … Continue reading