Judging a Book by its Cover
Sometimes you experience moments of pride in your kids. Sometimes those moments keep going, take a sudden turn, burst through a guardrail and soar off a cliff. So… My sons and I were boys-night-outting it on a bit of a blind date with a recommended restaurant. Our chuckling conversation kind of skidded out when we […]
My Wife Just Said… #77
“Soooooo, I’m slightly freaking out… Why? Because Lucas just ate POOP!!! Well, no he didn’t EAT it – like a chunk of it – but he had his hands jammed in his mouth and I found poo all over them.” -Elizabeth ““ Previous “My Wife Just Said…”
Types of Facebooking
There are all kinds of ways a person can Facebook. Knowing about them is not only really unimportant, it may be completely useless. But if it has a chance of being at all entertaining, I’m going to write about it. For those of you that are wondering what this has to do with parenting… wait… […]
How Kids Actually Wash Their Hands
There’s a whole vast world of supposed-to’s; the proper ways to do things. Just so you know, children don’t tend to be very willing residents in this supposed-to world. When you’re trying to instruct them in the ways of this world, quite often they’re just going to apply some whatever-the-heck-they-want-or-happens-to-pop-into-their-little-heads liberally, and maybe add […]
My Wife Just Said… #75
“I did? Ok, I forgot. Don’t remember telling you to do that, buuuuuut that’s not surprising these days.” -Elizabeth ““ Previous “My Wife Just Said…”
College Student vs. Baby
[ click the image to enlarge ] When kids go off to college we get misty eyed and clutch each other and say “we’re losing our little baby,” or some such choked-up sentiment. But, fortunately or unfortunately, sometimes that’s not as true as we may think. The similarities are still there. Our babies just […]
Banana Added for Scale (A New, More Forgiving Unit of Measure)
The banana is not a standard or scientific unit of measure. It isn’t even accurate. But isn’t accuracy really for people who build bridges and count how many eyebrow hairs they have? Let’s face it, not everything in the world needs a laser scan that can tell you the shoe size of a molecule. People […]
Hilarious Kid Conversations REENACTED!
Some of the most entertaining and hilarious eavesdropping an all-growed-up person will do is listening to young kids having a conversation with each other. When the kids aren’t aware of or don’t care about the presence of big folks. NOW. Imagine someone took a recording of two kids talking and reenacted it! You can stop […]
My Kid Just Said… #7
[Sigh] “I feel so relaxed. Like I just peed.” [Everyone bursts out laughing] “What!?! It makes you feel relaxed!” -Max (2010, 10 years old) Relaxation Level: Max. We all voiced our agreement by laughing even harder. He was right! It’s true. It’s not something you talk about over tea and crumpets. Or ever really. Still, […]
My Wife Just Said… #73
“Oh! That’s why you were being a jerk. Yoooou haven’t had your cooooffeeee yet!” -Elizabeth ““ Previous “My Wife Just Said…”
