Family

As I was tucking my boys into bed, we talked about limits on computer time.  My youngest said, great, after out computer time can we do math time too?  What planet did I get my kid from?  Do other kids really ask to do anything even remotely related to...

Don’t get me wrong.  I don’t consider myself lazy by any means.  I can multi-task and be productive as much as the next guy. But isn’t it great every now and then to have a day just to regroup and not do too much of anything?  I think it’s...

More and more I’ve noticed lately that annoying tendency that kids often have with their mothers…you make requests until you are blue in the face, and you notice that your children not even registering a word that comes out of your mouth.  Wha wha wha wha wha wha wha–just...

I was fortunate enough to have spent the weekend with both of my sisters to celebrate my eldest sister’s 50th birthday.  It’s not often that we all gather together as we are spread geographically, involved with the every day routines of our own immediate families and caught up in...

I had been preparing for a visit from my relatives, and was not quite finished straightening up and getting things clean.  I had just picked up Timmy from a basketball camp, and he was anxious to head out to the pool.  I told him that I still had a...