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I don’t remember exactly which day it was, but Ciaran asked if he could hold Tevye. We knew it wouldn’t be very successful, but Ciaran certainly tried his best and was able to hold him for a moment. Then Tevye started slipping. Of course my initial reaction is to take a picture rather than rush…
Chances are you missed this post a while back about “how we do it” with regards to the children’s schedule. Things have changed in the three years since then, and “how we do it” has changed as well. Not only do we have another child, the other kids are older and their needs and activities…
The post idea I had for today sounded good in my head, then as I began typing it out it sounded more and more dumb. I couldn’t drag it out to a full post and there wasn’t any interesting angle to spin. Essentially it was about going to the store to get my daughter some…
Maleficent is a twist on the classic Sleeping Beauty tale, one told by Disney in the studio’s classic 1959 animated film. Here we get the same story, but told very differently – and not due to the difference in medium. The film opens with a young fairy living in a land filled with magical beings…
I was walking Xavier to preschool when he said “When you pick me up and August and Dela and Ciaran we should go to the park with the stones you can read to me.” It took me a minute, but eventually I asked him “Like when we were in Salem?” “Yeah!” “That was a graveyard.”…
This game is not easy. I wound up having to go back and start over at the “normal” difficulty level, despite Styx: Master Of Shadows being a game within a genre I am somewhat good at. Styx is a “stealth action” game, meaning there’s a lot of time spent avoiding others by hiding in shadows,…
I had a totally different musical topic planned for today, then in the shower this morning this song came into my head and wouldn’t leave me alone. This song was released as a single in January of 1985 but it would be several months before I heard it. Actually it would be almost a year later…
Does anybody even read blog posts on Sundays? If so, do people go back and read some of the posts from earlier in the week? Is it worth it to create a new post on Sunday or just set up a signpost to the one blog entry from the week you most like? Should Facebook and…
This morning I tweeted: Dammit, I don't have any raisins for my oatmeal. — post post modern dad (@ppmdad) November 8, 2014 While this may not seem like a big deal, and in the grand scheme of things it really is insignificant, it winds up being a bit of a speed bump on a road…
Remember last week when I said I would have another post for the Halloween pictures? I said “probably tomorrow” but other things got in the way. This was a bit of an odd Halloween for us. It was the first time any of the kids went trick-or-treating with others, this meant there would be not…