My wife and I decided to put together a family blog last night to serve as a one-stop for all relatives and friends who want to keep up with our daily lives, more specifically, our kids. We figured it’s easier to have them come to us rather than update the different parties/people sporadically with news…
To make us feel better about the fact that our daughter wanted a trash truck for the Holidays, my wife and I bought her a cute little doll house from Target – you know, just to throw it out there that girl stuff is cool too (but no pressure!). So, I assembled the house while…
Monday, and I’m looking for inspiration. It’s usually pretty easy, what with two kids, a dog, a wife, a bigass TV with 250+ channels, shelves full of books, and 2500+ songs in my iTunes. And it’s The Holiday Season. And today it was raining. My home is a live-in Topic Cloud. There’s no such thing…
Are you guilty of it? Sometimes I am guilty of it. I find myself unconsciously encouraging one son over another because of their age or their skill set. Sometimes it comes up immediately, “Why did you clap for him and not me?” one of my boys will ask. And you have to stop and think…
Oddly, what made me decide to stop writing about my son was a piece of buffalo chicken pizza. I say “oddly” because most big decisions are prompted by big events. This past weekend, Lucas played in a rugby tournament. I was a semi-benched coach; my still-healing knee prevented me from moving up and down the…
I’m settling into Stay/Work-At-Home-Dad life; for someone who bitched as long and as loudly as I did about hating my profession, working in an office, dealing with incompetent bosses, it’s been eye-opening, and at at times not in the “Dorothy steps out of her house into beautiful Technicolor Oz” way. Eight more hours of kids…
Elephants. The Pumpkin Man loves Elephants. They are by far his favorite zoo-bound animal. He loses his toddler shit whenever we see an elephantine representation. “Eh-ephant, Eh-ephant!” he calls between his adorably sorry attempts at making the trumpeting sound we associate with the great beasts. The other day, I found The Story Of Babar in…
I’ve learned a lot since becoming a parent. I’ve learned that two-year olds suck at hide and seek. I immediately recognize that look my wife gets when another 17 seconds of my daughter’s irrational behavior could lead to her permanent injury. I unconsciously grab extra napkins off the table and shove them in my pockets…
This is the story of how I lost the will, energy and desire to publicly express my Parenting Opinions. It starts with Green Lantern. This past Sunday, as I sprawled out on the couch trying to recoop from a long work week spent away from home, I once again found myself playing the role of…
“Kids today, they have no one to look up to. ‘Cause they’re looking up to us.” – Don Draper He’s never without an Old Fashioned in his hand, he smokes like a chimney, he sleeps with 97% of the women he makes eye contact with (we crunched the numbers: Peggy Olson and Joan Holloway are…