Today’s Tale (actually Friday’s Tale) appears in the Seminole Chronicle. Click here to read it! Keywords for searchers: fireworks, publix, banana nose, I’ve been asked why I post the link to the Chronicle articles here, instead of on the front page. The answer is that putting a stub here lets you make comments.
Read MoreA couple of weeks before N’s 3rd birthday, I took him and his brother down to the Animal Kingdom for a day of fun. Actually, we hadn’t planned on going to the Animal Kingdom, but that’s another story. One of the best things about the Animal Kingdom is the Lion King show. It is easily […]
Read MoreIf I had been smart, I would have written down all the times I’ve heard one of the boys start a sentence with “when I’m a daddy…” Unfortunately, I haven’t been that smart. A few weeks back, however, C came up with this little conversation-stopper. We were eating dinner, and the boys have been trying […]
Read MoreWe have in our kitchen a little plastic kid’s table. We picked it up at a garage sale years ago, and the kids love using it. In fact, whenever we’re not eating as a family, that’s where they prefer to eat. This morning they were eating breakfast there while I cleaned up in the kitchen. […]
Read MoreWe took the boys to a local playground (Central Winds Park) this past Sunday. It was loads of fun. There’s a play structure there that is literally three stories tall. It has bridges, climbing walls, ladders, slides… pretty much everything. In fact, two of the slides start at the top of the three story tower […]
Read MoreOur routine in the mornings has become pretty well established. The kids get up and run into our bedroom. If they get there early enough, they find me still there. If they don’t, I come down and say good morning. They always get there early enough. Once they arrive, we either snooze on the bed […]
Read MoreFor a while there, we had quite the tough time fighting a battle for honesty with our four year old. He discovered, as I suppose all kids his age do, that what he says doesn’t always have to match what actually happened. We did all sorts of things to drive the lesson home. I told him […]
Read MoreI was driving the kids some place the other day, when they started talking about what they wanted to be when they grow up. It was the usual assortment of professions: truck driver, fireman, astronaut, architect, and so forth. After he said “astronaut,” however, C paused for a few moments and then asked “do you […]
Read MoreLike most little guys, my two boys love to poke. They poke each other. They poke me. They even poke momma – when they can get away with it. About a year ago, I turned this love of poking to my advantage. We were riding in the car at the time and they were being […]
Read MoreI can’t count the number of times I’ve been out with the kids and one of them has said something inappropriate about a stranger walking by. This is understandable but still awkward. When the kids see someone unusual, they want to tell me about it. Of course, few people like to have their unusualness pointed out. […]
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