Family
Yes, I’m early. But, besides the fact that I don’t post on weekends, come Mothers Day I’ll be busy enough with my own personal celebrations. It’s either now, or late. Mothers don’t get much credit. When you think about it, what accomplishment by the human race could possibly compare with mothers’ efforts to provide a human [...]
I knew my daughter would come home from her one day at LTUE totally psyched up to write. She’s currently knee-deep in world-building for a new story. My older son was already working on his own story before the symposium. But now my youngest child has decided to start writing a story, too! He’s seven. [...]
I don’t think I need to worry about my daughter being too “girly.” She doesn’t divide the world into “girl things” and “boy things”. If something interests her, she wants to try it, and she won’t rest until she does. That’s why she and I go to war today. When I introduced the kids to [...]
The other night I was playing a game with the family and put on some Loreena McKennitt as background music. My daughter liked listening to it, and then told me about this really cool song it reminded her of. She proceeded to tell me the story told through the song, a bout a highwayman and [...]
Feel free to skip this one. I just don’t have anything else to talk about tonight, as Halloween activities consumed all my time pretty much from the moment I got home until now. And that’s perfectly fine. I always enjoy being reminded what good kids I have. This year Emma went with a bunch of [...]
My daughter’s soccer season ended last night. I’ve written before how they’re much improved this year. They’ve had an excellent season–only one team in their group has beaten them, though they’ve done so twice. So who did they play for their last game of the season? Yup. The only undefeated team. I had some hopes. [...]
It’s getting closed to 11:00 pm. That’s not late for many of you, I realize, but I should have been heading to bed an hour ago. But I’m still up. Why? My kids have found that the local library has teamed up with a company to allow limited mp3 downloads for free every week. They [...]
…because you guys just can’t get enough of me bragging about my kids. Baseball season is over (again). We had both of the boys on the same team this time, which made things interesting. These two who often fight like cats and dogs at home formed their own team-within-a-team. Whenever they could they’d arrange it [...]
There comes a point in a pride of lions that one of the younger males feels big enough to challenge the top lion. If the young lion wins the older lion is banished and takes to the wilds alone. Fortunately I’m not a lion. I’m not ready to move out. Today after several months break [...]
Rebecca Hamilton at Public Catholic has a post about the importance of fathers that’s well worth reading. A brief excerpt: Woody Allen has said that 90% of life is showing up. I think that more than 90% of being a father is being there. You don’t have to ride horses with your kids or break [...]