Not surprisingly, a spot-check of this blog for the popular search term “Handy Manny” returns no fewer than one dozen results… and our family vocab on “Lovely” shows appears to have been born in the late-2015-early-2016 toddler television era. Yesterday I was talking to my three-almost-four-year-old nephew Bry-Bry and heard the words Dinosaur Train. …
The last few weeks, Nate’s been somewhat sensitive and tearful at night. He’s a pretty stoic guy so I know something’s bothering him. After some gentle prying when he’s at his sleepiest, he finally blurts it out. Turns out some kids in his class have been making fun of his name……
We’re two weekends into the soccer season and so far so goooooooooool. Or “golazo” as Nate likes to say. I arrived late to Nate’s first game and found out I was substitute coaching. Bad news? We only had three players and had to borrow one every quarter from the other…
We’ve got the soccer fever. Seems like it started with this year’s World Cup. We poured over stickers and books and players. We found out Nate has a knack for remembering names that might rival his mom’s. And after nine years of persistent bedhead, Jake started caring about his hair. …
Just one week ago we headed back to school. Second grade and fourth grade. Summer somehow flew by in a blur of sun scream and goalie camp. Two weekends ago the boys and I embarked on a Saturday morning back-to-school shopping spree. Growing up, this was always a much anticipated errand. …
Hard to believe we’re already in the last week of summer vacay. Last Friday I was invited to a final family Y camp barbecue at Meadow Park. Reminder for next year: Bring our own barbecue if we want to eat at lunchtime. Or eat. So we’re sitting in the shade…
In the not so distant past, I remember spending many a weekend lamenting my new hobby I called “clothes management.” It was the perpetual task of sorting and piling and checking miniature tags and realizing there were no tags because someone had been whining and pulling at the back of…
This town seems to have a lot of identical twins. Everybody loves twins, right? There’s just something so mysterious and intriguing about two people that look exactly the same. We have our twin neighbors who are straight out of Sweet Valley High, even though they’re still just eight. One of…
It’s been awhile since I’ve provided an update on the puppies… or the poopies as I like to call them. Several stories come to mind, but I can hardly remember them as I’m still recovering from Friday’s sleep deprivation. It started Friday morning as all sicknesses, mysterious rashes and injuries are…
I’m certain I’ve mentioned the amount of quizzing that takes place around this place, but I’m not entirely sure people really appreciate how much I’m constantly being tested. Not just my patience, but primarily my knowledge of weird animal facts, planets, my ability to add and multiply long strings of random…