And, I thought the metal would hold up well…
When I go to pick the girls up from preschool, I just never know what surprises might await me there. And, yesterday did not disappoint because the Toddler’s teacher apologetically handed me this…
When I go to pick the girls up from preschool, I just never know what surprises might await me there. And, yesterday did not disappoint because the Toddler’s teacher apologetically handed me this…
I have always had a hard time sitting still for long lengths of time. Now that I think about it, this might be part of the reason my own children find it impossible to sit still, even for brief amounts of time, in highchairs, booster seats, on the couch, in the stroller, in a shopping…
There are few places where I have more good memories of time spent with my dad than here at Hilton Head. This was his beloved retreat from the real world, and he was more relaxed and perhaps more himself here than anywhere. I’m not sure that I’ll ever grasp how stressful his job was at…
While I help the older two girls get to bed each night, the Toddler has a bedtime ritual of her own that involves the Spouse reading her the same couple of books before she goes to sleep. One of her favorites for the past several months has been a rhyming picture book called Firefighters to…
Toddler 2 seems to have an uncanny knack for all things technology. Since this past summer, she has had a special interest in the iphone and its many features. My memory is foggy on this point, but I think it all started when in some desperate situation where I needed to divert her attention, I…
I wish I could say that I have treated this week as the Holy Week that it is. But, that would be far from true. Instead, I’ve been more impatient and short-tempered than usual… in large part because the girls have been more at each other than ever before. I’ve yelled more than I’d like…
The Spouse and I don’t go to movies much these days. In fact, I think we might average about one a year {unless you factor in movies like Winnie the Pooh, and I don’t really think those 68 minutes of animation with little people on our lap making running commentary the whole time should count}….