There are times when I look at my son and say, “STOP DOING THAT!” ‘That’, of course, is usually something involving torturing his sister. Of course, she tortures him as well, usually through made up songs. Since Laureen’s birthday is coming up, last night, Jacob called a meeting of the family-not-Laureen in his room. He …
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Travel News From My Parents
My Dad Lloyd writes: Hi all, Here we are in Alaska after getting up at 3:00 a.m. to catch a 7:10 flight to PHX, we are traveling with some friends who retired from AA, We made it through to Anchorage unscathed. They didn’t know about the hoops you have to jump through to get stand-by passes on another …
Scenes from the Day
My children are chicken-fried nuts. Jacob is chaotic at times, but underneath that boy who’s running around screaming and pretending to be a robot is a very keen mind. Exemplar gratis: we used to own a hammock. It’s strings have long since rotted away, but we did keep the hammock stand, a set of tubes …
Exponential Laundry
I understand that clean clothes are necessary in today’s civilized world, but it’s strange how much laundry has evolved. When you’re a kid, the clothes appear magically in your dresser. Sometimes you get dirt on your favorite shirt, and you cry, so your mom takes the shirt and magically replaces it with a clean one! …
Under Where?
I’m starting to think the time you feel most out of sorts is when you’re wearing underwear that doesn’t work for you. It’s either that it’s too small, or too big, or it bunches up, or… This is coming from a guy. I only have one undergarment. I have a hard time imagining the struggles …
Where The Words Come From
Jacob’s been a talkative four year-old lately. Notable moments: “Yippee-ki-yo-ki-yay.” We’re not sure where that came from. Hopefully not a Bruce Willis movie. He went with my mom and dad to Central Market this past Saturday where they had a Celtic rock band of some sort. No, it wasn’t Slade for the two of you …
A Jessie Perspective
Today was oddly warm. Warm enough such that we put swim diapers on the kids and let them play with sprinklers in the back yard. Jessie has a strange habit of taking her thumb and pushing the back end of her diaper down, often exposing the better part of one cheek to the world. Well, …
Taking care of yourself. Sometimes a bit too well…
I mentioned a few posts down about having a vasectomy. After the surgery, Laureen pretty much ran the household while I stayed in bed with ice packs (actually bags of frozen peas) to decrease swelling and soreness. Dr. Hassell recommended using ice only about 15 minutes per hour. I think I averaged closer to 45 …
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When You Open Your Mouth
I was idly talking to myself this morning while waiting for the Circus Day parade to start at Jacob and Jessie’s preschool: “…then I need to figure out the HTML…” A woman hears this and speaks to me, “…HTML? Do you need help with something? I’m a web designer.” “Yeah,” I respond, “I’m trying to …
Rockin’ the Workout
I’m starting the third week of team training. It looks like I’ve lost about 15 pounds so far. However, I still always look for the closest parking spot to the front door of the gym. Some things don’t change. Thanks Eric and Analisa for letting us stay over! We had fun.