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Read MoreFor the past week, I’ve been up in Maryland doing what I could to help out my sister. Without getting into the details, her husband suffered a series of medical mishaps that ended with him in the ICU with serious brain damage. My siblings and I flew to help out however we could. I explained all […]
Read MoreFor the most part, N has accepted that he is required to eat at mealtimes. We still have meals, however, where we really have to work to get food into him. The other day, as we were eating dinner, he suddenly put his hands over his ears. His mom asked him what he was doing. […]
Read MoreFor some reason, I tend to wake up happy in the morning. I’m not sure why this is, but it has always bugged my wife. She wakes up much like a bear startled by a loud noise in the dead of winter… It probably doesn’t help that I like to sing in the mornings. I […]
Read MoreJ’s specialty dessert is a Greek cookie known as koularakia – little cookies twisted into ribbons. They’re quite tasty and have the added benefit of being something that the kids can help her make. Not only do they work on the dough together, but the kids also have a fun time twisting the dough into the […]
Read MoreA few weekends ago, our church had the Sunday school classes come up to the altar to deliver presents for charity. Each class filed up to the altar, dropped off their presents and filed out again. Unfortunately, during this process the line with our three year old in it crossed the line of another class. The little […]
Read MoreBoth the kids have been spending a lot of time playing pretend lately. Everything they sit on immediately turns into a train or a boat or a rocket ship. Once we even had a flying house boat with a seven story hotel on it. The other night, however, things took a slightly different turn. The […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is published in the Chronicle. Read it here. Every parent has those “what do we do now” moments. At least I hope so. Here was one of ours. In this case, we chose the wrong path – and I paid the price. I’m still not sure how I ended up in more trouble […]
Read MoreFor some reason, acorns fascinate N. I don’t know why. Wherever he goes, whatever he’s doing, he always stops in his tracks when he sees an acorn. He collects them, washes them, plays with them. I just don’t get it. The other day I noticed him clutching a ziplock bag of acorns as I put […]
Read MoreFor the past several months, N has been having fun experimenting with the different phrases that we use. Like all kids, he runs the gamut between understanding things we don’t expect him to, and not getting the ones that seem obvious. At times, I’ve felt as if he’s intentionally being dense just to get a […]
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