With the kids in full “angel” mode leading up to Christmas (well, almost), I thought I’d take this opportunity to flash back to a tale about an airplane ride. I wrote this but never posted it. Prior to this ride, both kids had already ridden on planes several times on trips back and forth to […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it! Terms for searchers: Christmas, Whack, Santa, Naughty, Nice Looking for some more holiday cheer? Check out these other fun Christmas tales: Defending Santa The Perfect Present Holiday Patience
Read MoreOne of the kids’s favorite songs is “Fast Monkey”, by SteveSongs. If you hadn’t heard it, here’s a little taste: I’m fast, I’m really really fast.I’m faster…than a fast monkey! The song repeats this lyric subtituting in a different word for fast each time: slow, loud, quiet, and so forth. The reason it’s such a […]
Read MoreToday’s Tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it. Terms for Searchers: Cub Scouts, camp, up, La No Che, tired, movie
Read MoreWe had a landmark event this morning: my five year old rode his own bike into school. Up until now, he’s been riding on the back of the tandem bike with my wife. This morning, he and I set out about fifteen minutes earlier than usual, riding into a thick cold mist. The television said […]
Read MoreThe other day, the boys and I made up a truly bizarre story, one that somehow ended up having a rather obvious moral. I decided to take advantage of the situation. “That was cool,” I said. ”It even had a moral. Anyone know what the moral of the story was?” “What’s a moral?” my oldest asked. […]
Read MoreThe battle of the boogers took a strange turn a few weeks back. I reading the kids a bedtime story, when I spotted my youngest picking his nose. I tried to ignore it, but when he started to pop the booger in his mouth, I couldn’t help myself. “Stop,” I said. He froze, finger hovering […]
Read MoreA couple weeks ago, I was downstairs playing with the kids when my wife poked her head in the room. “Dinner’s almost ready,” she said. “Wait!” my youngest son shouted. We all looked at him. “If the phone rings,” he said, with his most serious expression. “Don’t answer it.” “Why?” my wife asked. “Because it’s […]
Read MoreMy wife was in Texas for the first three days of this past week, leaving me to fly solo with two sick kids. No worries there, of course. The boys always seem to get sick when their mom leaves town. I’m getting kind of used to it. In any case, everything went smoothly, or so […]
Read MoreAs I mentioned earlier, the kids are currently going through a serious “We Will Rock You” phase. In fact, as we were driving yesterday, our five-year old spontaneously burst into song. “You got mud on your face,You think it’s grace,dun-dun dun can, dun, dun, dun dun dunSingin we will, we will, rock you!” “Wait a […]
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