For the first time in a very long while, my wife and I were forced to leave the kids with relatives for a couple days. The back story there is long and tortuous, but it’s not important. What is important is that one morning found me saying goodbye to the kids and giving them those […]

A few months back, when the kids were still going to school, I witnessed a rather bizarre exchange between my youngest son, who was three at the time, and his mother. I was eating breakfast at the time, and my wife was scurrying around trying to get a snack put together for the little guy’s […]

Believe it or not, the kids used to like asparagus. We lightly grill it with a little oil when we cook out. It’s the easiest veggie I know of to cook on the grill, and comes out tasting great. But, of course, one day the kids decided they didn’t like it any more. I don’t […]

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Prior to C having his tonsils out, he had a string of strep throat cases. One evening, he overheard us talking about the tonsils issue and asked us about it: “Take my tonsils out?” “Yes,” his momma said. “If you have strep too many more times, it means that your tonsils are sick and the […]

I think the first time we heard it was during a scary(ish) episode of The Backyardigans. N (who was three at the time) climbed into my lap and grabbed my shoulder. “That was Yikes!” “Yikes?” He nodded “Uh-uh.” He held his hands out for emphasis. “That was yikes!” That was several months ago. Ever since […]

My wife had to go to Texas a while back, leaving me flying solo with the kids for a few days. Though the three of us get along fine, things do sometimes get a little bizarre. One night, as I was making grilled cheese sandwiches in the kitchen, N ran out of his room without […]

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 […]

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A while back we had a stomach virus go round the family. As usual, this meant a couple days of sickness for each of the kids. I was down for a week. The virus made itself known during dinner. We were trying to convince C (our 5 year old) to finish his chicken when he […]