Better to Ask Me Who I Was
If you follow my blog you may be aware that I recently embarked on a new adventure called musical theater. Like most of my adventures that I stumble into it began when my children asked me, “Can we Daddy? Please!” …
Category: Life
A New Adventure
Being a SAHD is always an adventure. My oldest two children are involved in the local children’s theater which requires a certain level of parent volunteer assistance to pull off the productions. Typically this volunteering is split along gender lines …
Parental Range Checking
I’m a little late speaking up about this, mostly because it’s summer time and between work and the kids there hasn’t been much time for writing. But also because this is one of those topics that make me pause before …
Run-time Error: Children out of Range
Recently a single mother was arrested and her nine year old child placed into foster care because she let her play at the playground while she was working at a nearby McDonald’s. As usual my stand-by for analysis and commentary, …
Barney Fife On The Job
This past friday the kids had an early dismissal, my first ever. Being inexperienced as a SAHD I didn’t have any thing planned for the kids, When I was a kid an early dismissal in itself was enough of a …
Happy Exceptional Birthday
Our youngest of three children was born four year ago today. She was an exceptional child starting at birth for two reasons. For one thing, she was exceptionally long for an infant which has translated into being exceptionally tall when …
Back to School – WOO HOO!!
Recently my wife showed me this picture someone sent her of a joyous SAHM on the first day of school. After spending the end of the summer trapped in the house with all three children by the Texas heat I …
Meet the Father
This morning was meet the teacher and my son, my second child, is starting Kindergarten. We’ve been down this road as a family before but I was barely tuned in the first time two years ago when my daughter started …
Day Care Decisions
Yet another article on Slate today that I wanted to share. It’s about the latest science on kids and day care and after reading it I felt it necessary to brag about our decisions regarding childcare. When we had our …
Girls’ Night Out
I inadvertently invited myself to a girls’ night out last night by taking the initiative to having a night out with my wife. My wife and I have pretty much made the transition from swapping roles but there were a …