It could be worse… It could be worse… It could be worse… It’s what I keep telling myself and everyone that asks. But, it’s still frustrating. We’re stranded. Yes, it’s at my in-laws (who have food, heat and a washer and dryer), but we’re still stranded. Unable to get home and back to the things [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Rougher days'
Stranded
January 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Adventures, Family, Holidays, Parenting, Rougher days
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Winter Sports
December 20th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Dads, Family, Parenting, Rougher days
We didn’t get the snow that our friends in the East did, but we did get several inches on Friday night. Our biggest snowfall so far this season. The kids, of course, were thrilled. Jack, especially. He spent several hours outside this weekend building a snow fort. (Pictures to come.) Yesterday afternoon, when our youngest [...]
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The Good, The Bad, and The Fattening
July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Adventures, Parenting, Rougher days
The Good: The doorbell rang late this morning – right around lunchtime – and I was delightfully surprised to see a flower delivery person standing on my doorstep with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. My first thought, of course, was that they were for the neighbors. But when the man used my name, I knew [...]
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Family
June 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Adventures, Animals, Family, Moving, Parenting, Rougher days, School
We went to St. Louis over the weekend. One of Dan’s brothers and his family were in town for a few days, so we took the opportunity to see them, as they live quite a distance from us. It was fun to see everyone and we were happily surprised that a) we were able to [...]
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Big Brother
May 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Parenting, Rougher days
No, no, no. Sam’s NOT going to be a big brother. That’s not the kind of big brother I’m talking about. I’m talking about the other kind… Have you ever heard of redlightviolations.com? Well, neither had I. Until I opened my mail yesterday and found that I had received a Red Light Violation Notice, courtesy [...]
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The Twilight Zone
April 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Parenting, Rougher days
As I lay in bed this morning dozing off and on with various juvenile faces fading in and out of view, I thought that one of the nice things about spring break – besides not fixing lunches – is not having to get out of bed at the crack of dawn. And then an elbow [...]
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Take It On The Chin
April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Family, Parenting, Rougher days
So. My sister called today. She was in the car with one of hers, on the way to an appointment. And I was home with all of mine, trying to shove food into everyone at 4 p.m. so we could make it to karate on time and not starve while there. As my sister and [...]
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Hilarious
March 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Dads, Moving, Parenting, Rougher days
I grabbed this from fellow blogger at http://morethananelectrician.wordpress.com/ Too funny not to share.
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Rules
February 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Dads, Food, Moving, Parenting, Rougher days, School
Yesterday morning I had a doctor’s appointment. Thankfully, Bert* gets to use sick time to cover the kids for me when this happens. My appointment was early, so Bert took the kids to school so I could get a shower in beforehand. Bert has taken the kids to school before, so (despite my control-freak nature) [...]
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Fear
January 14th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Adventures, Family, Rougher days, School
I think I’m still a little paralyzed with it. Jack was no where to be found when I went to pick him up at school today. No where. I pulled to the front of the school in the same place I do every day, but he wasn’t there. I looked around. I had the other [...]
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