The recovery process for my wrist surgery involves, of course, stretching exercises. These exercises are quite simple: I move the wrist to what should be a pain free position and hold it there for a count of ten. I do each one ten times. As you might imagine,  the boys are fascinated by the whole process. This […]

The other day I was giving the house a thorough vacuuming when N suddenly appeared in front of me. He looked at the vaccuum, threw both hands over his head, and shouted “Oh No!” So I chased him with the vacuum, growling and making monster faces. I don’t think he heard me growling. Our vacuum is […]

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The kids get upset by the strangest things. The other week, N (the three year old) burst into tears because I’d given him the wrong color bowl for his cereal. He apparently wanted green. I’m not one to give in to those sorts of demands. I calmly explained to him that he could have a […]

One of the long-running jokes between J and I is that she used to do a killer imitation of Betty Boop (boop-boop-be-doop!). She doesn’t do it any more, but we still chuckle about it. Yesterday, all four of us were wandering around a mall when we passed by one of those “we sell all sorts […]

For the past week, I’ve been up in Maryland doing what I could to help out my sister. Without getting into the details, her husband suffered a series of medical mishaps that ended with him in the ICU with serious brain damage. My siblings and I flew to help out however we could. I explained all […]

For the most part, N has accepted that he is required to eat at mealtimes. We still have meals, however, where we really have to work to get food into him. The other day, as we were eating dinner, he suddenly put his hands over his ears. His mom asked him what he was doing. […]

For some reason, I tend to wake up happy in the morning. I’m not sure why this is, but it has always bugged my wife. She wakes up much like a bear startled by a loud noise in the dead of winter… It probably doesn’t help that I like to sing in the mornings. I […]

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’twas the night before Christmas… and the kids were wired. We had finished a long day of cleaning, preparations, and shopping, so they were also very tired. Wired and tired makes for silly kids, especially the night before Christmas. Finally, we settled down to read the Night Before Christmas. My wife hadm’t finished two pages […]