Today’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 […]

Today’s tale is in the Chronicle.  Click here to read it. Words for searchers: swing, glider, tummy, rule, bad idea

A little while ago, I wrote a tale about how the name Octavius became a part of our family lexicon. The result of that wandering tale has been that the boys frequently ask to pretend that I am “baby Oc”. One of them pretends to be daddy, and the other grampa. I talk in a […]

Some time ago, my wife bought me a “toy barbershop kit” to give to the kids. I promptly forgot about it until the other day, when I discovered it in the cabinet underneath the bathroom sink. When I brought it out for the boys, they were thrilled. They sat me down on a beanbag chair on […]

The weather these past couple of days has been absolutely beautiful. It’s starting to cool off a bit (meaning the highs are in the low 80’s), so adventuring during the middle of the day is much more pleasant. Seeing that the day was shaping up to be so beautiful yesterday, we packed up the kids and […]

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 […]

About 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 […]

If 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 […]

School started up again last week for C. For kids in pre-K, this is a time of lots of adjustments. New friends, new teachers, less free time… all that fun stuff. After work on Monday, I both wanted to hear how his first day went, and wanted to get some playtime in with him. I figured he […]

I had a major blow up with C today. He was being bad with a capital B and I finally ended up sending him to his room. For us, that’s the ultimate punishment. It doesn’t get any worse. I’ve only done it two or three times before. After he went into the room, however, he […]