Weekend Dad

Saturday morning was a rainy affair and the 2 soccer games that were originally planned were cancelled.  I was sitting with the boys eating breakfast and just goofing off.
Even if we had the soccer games, I was relieved it was Saturday after a normal, but frustrating and difficult week.  But I was curious at how [...]

What Is This?

A fuzzy blue blob that we saw on a hike last weekend.  It was sitting in the middle of the trail, and at first we thought it was a woman’s hair scrunchy thing.
Has anybody seen one of these before? Or know what it is?
The boys decided it was the poop from a rare blue [...]

Rain (Pool) Party

Yesterday, we planned to have ~K~’s birthday party. Granted, his birthday isn’t for another 2 months, but then again, the pool isn’t open in October either.
We did this last year and all went swimmingly.  The weather was perfect.  But as has been  the theme here this summer, it was not to be this year.
The [...]

Lessons Learned While Camping

For our vacation this year, we went camping in North Carolina near where I would go when I was a boy.  I have fond memories of camping there and I wanted to share it with my family.  Unlike our previous camping trip last year, the weather was less than ideal:  it rained. A lot.
If you [...]

What was the question?

In saying good night, my 12 year old comes up to me and asks:
“If there’s no such thing as a dumb question, then is this a dumb question?”
“Yes”, says I.
“Is it?” he says.
“What?”
Totally confused I shake my head and he starts laughing out loud.
My fear is that it is only just beginning of what is [...]

4-1 = A lot quieter

We let our eldest go this week. He was itching for adventure.
“New York,” he said.
“Maine,” he said… and “Oh, I want to go sailing.”
“Be gone with you!” I said.
“Go on your adventure and make this family proud! Conquer lands! Vanquish enemies. Oh, and make sure that you call.”
Of course there were grandparents involved [...]

Water, Water, Everywhere

Since my wife was at the homeschool conference in Richmond this  weekend, I took Thursday afternoon and Friday off and declared Men’s Weekend 2009.  We wrote up a list of things that we wanted to do over the weekend, which included trying to fill a gaping hole called “Friday.”
The fear is that somehow, if you [...]

Random thoughts

I guess it is time for my monthly post.  I guess I haven’t been doing much on the blogging front lately, but no apologies: you’ve heard it all before, anyway.  I got the idea of this post from Rick, who I’ve been following for several years, has recently come over to WordPress.
The idea here is [...]