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Finding periodicals for your kids to be interested in can be a challenge. Sure there are comics, but when it comes to more advanced reading there aren’t as many as one might think. My 10 year old son looks forward to each issue of Boys Life and my 8 year old daughter has Discovery Girls and Sparkle World coming…
NOTE: This post is NOT sponsored. I just happen to really like this place and had some pictures looking for a reason to be used. It is important to me the kids learn to swim. Even if we lived in a land-locked state, say… South Dakota or West Virginia my stance would be the same….
Alright, so that title may be misleading, but there isn’t a way to encapsulate what I want to say. Why aren’t more dad bloggers participating in NaBloPoMo? Heck, many of the ones I’ve talked with recently didn’t know about it. Some have heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – basically writing a book) but…
As I begin typing this out it is 5:20 in the morning. I have been awake for an hour. We “stayed up” until about 10 last night, turned the clocks back an hour, then went to bed. I sure was tired and looking forward to getting some sleep. Normally I wake up a couple of…
Here we go again. You may remember… well, most likely not, considering my numbers… I did this a couple of years ago and it was an underwhelming “success” (in that I got a post posted each day). I am participating in NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Post Month where the idea is to have a blog…
Yesterday was Halloween, so of course there will be costume pictures. First, however, I wanted to share this. We don’t get a lot of fallen leaves in our neighborhood, but the block to and from school does for about a week. The kids all love going through them. Here’s Xavier on his way home from…
School pictures came back. For Xavier it was his first school picture. It’s not even a great picture, to be honest, but it really does capture him at this moment in time. As I picked him up from preschool one of his teachers was handing out the packets to parents. He came out and saw…
I’m stepping out of the shower this morning and there in the doorway is Xavier, my 3 year old. I didn’t expect to see him there and was a little surprised. He’s just standing there, looking at me. “Oh, Hi Xavier.” “Hi dad. You’re gross.” “I know.” The kid really knows how to make a…
Last night we made it to the Sounders match against the Los Angeles Galaxy. It was our first professional sports event this year. Despite having signed up for the Mariners Kids’ Club early, we never made it to a game. I have some thoughts on that which I hope to put down shortly. Focusing on…
First, a random shot of Xavier as he is wearing August’s jacket. We were rushing to get out the house to pick up August, Déla and Ciárán from school and couldn’t immediately find his. Then we come to the weekend and Xavier and August went with me to the store. Both Xavier and August wanted…