As you may remember, our oldest son much prefers riding on roller coasters with me than with his momma. The problem is simple: she likes to scream on roller coasters – and that scares the heck out of the kids. We were back down at Disney a couple weeks ago, packing in the good times before school […]

I’ve thought several times that I should add a “bizarre” category, but at this point (after 470+ tales), it would involve going back and re-categorizing such a large number of them, that I just don’t think I can do it. As we were eating lunch the other day, our four year old noticed his momma […]

The kids are very focused these days on “good guys” and “bad guys”. If someone gets hurt in a movie or a book, they immediately ask if that was a good guy or a bad guy. Whenever we consider seeing a movie, they ask if the good guys win. It’s very important to them. This […]

We continue to have issues getting our youngest to eat properly. While he’ll gobble up all the bread and chips you put before him, getting meat or veggies down his little throat is a real challenge. At dinner the other day, he and his momma had a showdown over chicken. Everyone else had pretty much […]

Both of my kids have nightmares. I don’t know why. I suppose everyone has them. The three-year old’s aren’t quite as bad as his older brother’s, but they’re still quite traumatic for him. The other night, he comes running in to our bedroom, shouting “I had a mean dream! I had a mean dream!” I catch […]

The kids and I exercise before school each day – situps, jumping jacks, that sort of thing. Their mom says it helps focus them for the day. I think she’s just trying to get me to exercise. After breakfast this morning, as we were stretching, C announced that he was going to be the teacher. That […]

Yes, my wife hates this. I’m sure yours would to. I’m sticking to it, though! Today’s tale is in the chronicle.  Click here to read it. Keywords for searchers: gift, present, mixer

This has been an interesting year for me, filled with lots of upheavel. The biggest change was in my professional life. I left my position at Brentmark Software to focus on Live Oak Games and my writing. Instead of commuting, I now work out of an office in my home. Needless to say, a change […]

The kids are very much into pretending to feed me. Every time I turn around, one or the other has some special pretend drink, snack, or cookie for me to eat. At first, I thought this was a lot of fun, and I hammed up eating the pretend offering pretty much every time it was […]

As 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 […]