Occasionally I’ll let the kids pull up the step stool to the cart/island in the middle of our kitchen and we will eat a meal there. That meal is sometimes breakfast: homemade donuts where they get to dip or roll the donuts in their choice of toppings. When it’s lunch or dinner I put out [...]
As Eli has gotten older, he’s learned that he can’t always get what he wants. This has led to him developing new strategies to try to get his way. He cajoles. He whines. He argues. He suggests. But best of all, he issues threats.
What’s great is that he hasn’t yet learned that his threat should [...]
We ended our Fourth of July vacation as we began it: driving in the car. We were half-way between Little Rock and Memphis, an area slightly less populated than the middle of Wyoming. As we sailed past the only rest stop in miles and miles, Liza sang out, “I’m stinky!”
Misty confirmed that, yes, her diaper [...]
I was asked to pray during our church’s Easter Sunday service this year. I was a bit nervous about it, especially since I wanted to keep the prayer short while still touching on the themes of Easter week, from the darkness of the Friday crucifixion to the wonder of the Sunday resurrection.
Returning from the pulpit [...]
“So I press Tivo Man and that brings up the menu. Then I do ‘Now Playing’ and press select. Then I find ‘Wow Wow Wubzy’. Then I press select. Then I pick a show and press play.”
It occurs to me that Eli will never know a time when you couldn’t choose what TV show you [...]
by Eli
Once upon a time, there was a green-headed robot. He was lonely and very sad. But…he had no friends. But then one day, he met a purple-headed robot, Joe.
“How do you do, Joe?” said Sparky. (Mom, the purple-headed one is Sparky.)
“Good!” said Joe.
“Good!” said Sparky.
“But we don’t have any more friends!”
“You’re right!” said Sparky.
“We [...]
After the success of outsourcing last year’s birthday party to JumpZone!, we decided to do something similar this year. We let you choose where we’d have the party, which is how we ended up at Chuck E. Cheese’s. You’ve been a fan of the pizza rat for a while, even if his restaurant makes your [...]
Today, while watching Duke’s basketball team feed Maryland’s into a wood chipper face-first, Eli started doing play-by-play announcing.
“Duke’s got it, and then other Duke’s got it, and he throws it in the air, and it hits the front and falls.
“And a red guy’s got it, and now another red guy, he throws it but Duke [...]
“That says ‘player’s handbook’. There’s a woman on the cover. Why is she holding some fire?”
“I guess because she thinks it looks cool.”
“Oh, look! There’s a dragon and he’s holding a thing to fight with!”
It’s also nice to see Wizards of the Coast returning to tradition and placing a woman with semi-covered breasts on the [...]
