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Laura put Xavier down. Within a couple of minutes he is screaming. For mom. I go up to see if I can comfort him and get him to quiet down and go to sleep. As soon as I go in there, he’s quiet. He’s ignoring me. I crawl into the bed. He looks over at…
So much has happened on our trip, it’s hard to put it all down cohesively and in a timely manner. Such as it is when visiting family. Almost every day we’re off doing something, driving to one place or another, visiting some ancient ruin or some location with a significant historical importance. Part of this…
Of all the kids, Ciárán was the one who didn’t want to go. He’s rather contrary by nature and doesn’t necessarily like to step outside of his comfort zone. One of the other major reasons he didn’t want to go was his birthday would occur while away on vacation. He was afraid we wouldn’t be…
It’s over. It’s Monday morning as I write this. Ciárán’s head injury happened late Saturday afternoon. We had put an adhesive bandage on his head in the hopes that it would help to prevent the wound from opening up overnight. It appears to have worked. It was a small wound in the first place, thankfully….
What’s worse than your child having a head injury? How about having your child have a head injury in a small town in a foreign country on a Saturday afternoon? Is there a hospital nearby? Not in this town. Next town over? The next? Are they open? Where is it even? Ciárán got hurt. He…
I haven’t had as much time and opportunity to blog about the trip as I had initially planned. I thought I would have more time, but that’s not the case. Almost every day we’re out of the house by 10 in the morning and by the time we return and get dinner and the kids…
Heavy Traffic came out in 1973 and was Ralph Bakshi’s follow-up to his debut, Fritz The Cat. Where both films are exploitative and adult, Fritz The Cat was much more cartoonish in many ways. It was “over the top” and excessive. Heavy Traffic while still animated and excessive, it wasn’t done as a reaction, but…
When I was here three years ago I had no idea this was even here. It’s not even fully outside of Ballycastle! While I was away to Belgium one of the things Laura and the kids did was check this place out. It was disappointing as it was closed off, but I had yet to see…
Let’s try this again, shall we? The day after I got back from Belgium, which will be it’s own blog post (I want to try to get a bit more “current”), it was decided we should try to head out to Carrick-A-Rede and try getting across the rope bridge. Again. the weather was nicer and…
Okay, that was enough about the logistics, what about the music? Rock Werchter had plenty of music. Unfortunately a few of the bands we really wanted to see were on the first day. Still, most of the acts we were actually travelling to see were yet to play. We arrived on the first day and…