Category: The Boy

Omniscience – small boy edition

Part of our morning routine involves a brief time of “praying for the day” in the car on the way to school. One would think this event would engender feelings of good will and spirutality but…

Wisdom of the ages

Ah kids.  The great equalizer.  The boy was sucking his thumb, cozied up in his parent’s bed whilst I was doing something in the kitchen.  Walking into our room, I expressed my feelings of exhaustion…

Dinner conversations that should be served.

Spencer: “Mmmm.  This tastes good with the rats.” (The cold distorted the last word somewhat.) Dad: “What?” Spencer: “Mmmm. This tastes good with the rats.” Emma: “It’s not rats its rice.” Spencer: “That’s what I…

Mmm Mmm Good. Sort of.

So we went to a restaurant the other night – let’s just say that when you are there you are family, or something. The boy was enjoying his salad, especially the croutons.  You know you…

Is it just me?

So we take the kids to pick out their valentine’s day treats (that is, treats that they would purchase with their valentine’s day money from the grandparents).   During a recent movie, my beloved wife informed…

What we are learning. . .

“I learned the letter “T”. “I learned about thirds today!” “I learned about fractions!” “I learned how to add character data to an rss feed.” Now guess which one was Spencer’s.  (It might be a…

The big day.

So today was the big day.  I remember standing in line with my Dad in the summer of 1977 to watch Star Wars.  I don’t remember much about the actual movie at the time other…

Name that profession. . .

There are days when the girls are princesses, horse owners, fairies, cooks, fashion designers, models and some sort of superstars – but I never get an overpowering sense of which profession is actually going to…

Uhm… The Owl store maybe?

So the boy has been thrilled with his ability to read signs of late.   Whilst driving recently, we practiced reading the signs on the buildings together. “What’s that sign say?” I asked. “Big Apple!” he…