So, I’m 41 today. Don’t say Happy Birthday, tomorrow can’t get here soon enough for me. I did however get taken to one of my favorite places: The Zoo. You know, see the sights, visit the relatives. The joy in the zoo comes from the reactions of the smaller kids. Carley (2) looked at the bats and cringed,...
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If you have little ones, you will most likely have the opportunity to defend them from the great beasts of the imagination. Its a personal challenge I live for. Simon is one of the most creative 3 years olds I have ever met. His 10 siblings would agree. He also has an imagination second to none. I’m just waiting to...
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I saw something last Saturday that made me laugh so hard my sides hurt. Took the children to T-Ball and cheered my guts out. During the game, two children, a boy and a girl on the opposite team had the ball drop right smack between them. Everyone’s screaming and pointing at them as my daughter runs to first base. Yet...
read moreI’m getting slower and developing more patience the older I get. Not slower moving, though that seems to be creeping up, but rather slower to anger. My mind sees more, understands more and when I talk with my children, I find myself a councilman more than laying down ‘The Law’. Kids (the non-goat type) get to a...
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As hard as we are working to finish this first novel, my beloved editor and translator to the world is too close to having the baby to spend any time thinking about writing. I don’t blame her. Arguing about points of Iskari History and whether to include the mating rituals of the Blue Bumbleback Hornswallows doesn’t...
read moreSince my oldest was born, Ditto, who’s now 18, we had a bed time ritual and lights out of 7:00pm. That meant after dinner we would get the little ones cleaned up, into the PJ’s and then settle down for a bed time story, sometimes two, where they could cuddle on mom and dad’s bed and have time directed to their...
read moreLast night I had a parents dream and nightmare mixed together. A young man knew my oldest daughter turned 18 last Sunday and he came to our home and asked to court her. You say: The guy actually asked your permission? Yup. You say: Did my daughter know it happened? Yup. She was sitting there with me, the young man and her mother. I...
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