Every once in a while, I find myself in the classic parent trap of fighting a battle that I don’t really understand. Last year, this happened to me with our youngest. It sounds like a silly thing to get upset over, but he had hit on the idea of saying “aaaah!” Ridiculous, right? Why get […]
Read MoreThis is one that’s so silly I’m not going to tell you which boy said what… I was sitting on the couch one evening reading to the boys, when I noticed one of them had raised his pajama shirt and was holding his nipples while he stared at them. I stopped reading to look at […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Chronicle. You can click here to read it. Interestingly, the Chronicle editors cut off the end of the tale. Go read it there first and then come back and read it here. What do you think? Do you like the last few paragraphs, or do you like the change in […]
Read MoreIf there’s one thing you can count on seeing at Disney, it’s tired children. They come in all sizes and shapes, all attitudes. Some cry, some yell, some get jittery. Our youngest gets quiet. The last time we were down at Disney was no exception. As were were making our way out of the park, […]
Read MoreWe watched Tarzan (the Disney animated version) the other day. We had watched it once before, but decided it was too scary. Now that the kids are older (4 and 6), I thought they would be able to handle it.. I was right. They loved it. During fight scenes, they couldn’t keep still (especially the […]
Read MoreThe birthday party this past weekend was themed around the idea of having a comic book adventure. Everybody wore badges identifying them as Heroes, Sidekicks, or Innocent Bystanders. Periodically during the party, I would shout “alarm” to indicate that some of the people turned evil. They could spot the evildoers because their badges turned green. If […]
Read MoreThe kids have off from school again today, thanks to tropical storm Fay. They just started school on Monday, and having the days off after all the build-up about going to school has made our mornings kind of crazy. This morning, my youngest walked quietly up beside me as I was making my way to […]
Read MoreI was a bit unprepared for today, as today’s tale was supposed to run in the Chronicle. I only found out it didn’t when I looked and saw it wasn’t there. So today’s tale is from my notes. It happened about two years ago, when our oldest was only three and our youngest was only 1. […]
Read MoreAs some of you know, I currently wear three hats: game designer, writer, and software developer. Of these three, it’s the third job that causes me the most stress. It’s not that I don’t enjoy writing software. I do. There are, however, occasional problems that can really ramp up the old blood pressure – tracking down elusive […]
Read MoreThe kids started something called “drama camp” today. “Drama camp” is not a real camp. It’s a couple hours a day of kids playing around. We thought they’d enjoy it – and so did they. Things changed a bit a few weeks back, though. That’s when they saw a friend of theirs at the end […]
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