As Chronicle readers may remember, we have an ongoing issue with my wife trying to convince the kids to share their pizzas. For those that don’t remember, here’s the story. The other day we had a leftovers meal (cleaning out the fridge of the week’s leftovers). Leftover meals are actually kind of fun. There’s never enough […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Seminole Chronicle. You can read it here. Keywords for searchers: party, couch, train, photo
Read MoreAs I think I mentioned before, C’s pre-K classroom uses what is called the traffic light system. The idea behind this system is to have a giant picture of a traffic light on the wall of the classroom. Kids have their names or pictures clipped to the picture. If you are bad, your picture moves […]
Read MoreAbout a year ago, maybe more, the kids hit on the idea of putting on a show for us. Whenever they could, they’d drag us to a couch, have us sit down, and then pretend they were the center of a show. They’d either grab something and pretend it was a microphone, or they’d just […]
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading along, you’ve no doubt realized that our two boys sometimes seem as different as two people can get. This was really driven home to me the other day as we were cleaning up. They had been playing some sort of game with their mom that involved extremely large plastic bowls. I’m […]
Read MoreBoth the boys are really into pretend play. They are always turning blocks into people, pillows into trains, or otherwise converting the toys they have into pretend versions of real things. One toy that they don’t convert is their plastic toy cash register. It’s a cool little thing with a real scanner on it. You […]
Read MoreC loves Sprite. Whenever we’re at a restaurant, that’s one of the first things he asks for. We don’t usually give it to him, of course, but he always asks. In fact, he and his brother are curious about pretty much everything that adults drink. The other day when we went out for pizza, instead of […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Chronicle. It is easily the “quietest” tale I’ve ever written and uses a different style than what I usually do. I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know either way, though. I always appreciate the feedback! Click Here to Read It Words for Searchers: Black Hammock, Alligators, Margaritaville
Read MoreOne of our birthday traditions for the kids is a trip to the Magic Kingdom at Disney. C’s trip (he just turned 5) started out a little rocky. The big guy was acting strangely all morning. When we talked about what rides we were going to do, he was quiet. When we talked about things that […]
Read More“It’s hard being five.” That was C’s opening line to me at breakfast this morning. He turned five years old last week, and apparently was finding it a bit tougher than he’d expected. “Oh yeah?” I asked, “Why?” “Yellow stickers and green stickers and red stickers… Oh yeah. It’s hard being five.” His kindergarten readiness […]
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