CEOs take note
So today as we were driving home from school, the boy proudly reads and announces to his captive audience “BIG 10 TIRES! Right, Mom? Big 10?” “Yep, you got it right, buddy” (pause to process this…
Category: The Boy
Our Daily Fred
After the boy finished his ‘God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food’ prayer at mealtime, ending with ‘Thank you Lord for our daily bread’, he looked up at me…
Special Delivery
So the boy and I go to get the mail today just as the postal delivery person pulls away in his / her truck. “Come on, it’s time for me to give you to the…
Odd, I don’t sound like Scott…
One of the highlights of my day (even though I dread the actual first part of the event where I actually have to wake up) is waking the kids on a school day. I never…
Men, the Essentials, Vol 1 (only volume), No. 2
“Ow!” I said this morning as I burned the top of my hand reaching into the toaster oven to grab the kids’ oh-so-wholesome-and-tasty pancakes. “Did you get burned?” the 5 year old boy asked. “Yeah, I…
Men, the Essentials, Vol 1 (only volume), No 1.
Warning: Guy Talk.. beware. “So what’s your favorite thing at school?” I ask the boy, now in K-4. “Playing on the play ground and centers in the class” the boy responds. (Centers is where they…
My Baby is 5 — How did this happen?
So the boy celebrated his 5th birthday last week and I’m still coming to terms with it. What does this mean for me? Does this mean I can no longer technically refer to him as…
The end of the road. . .
So the boy asks why his cousins live so far away in Atlanta – you know, at the end of the road. . . (His cousins live in a house that is at the end…
Validation of the 5 second rule. . .
So the boy dropped whatever it was he was attempting to eat on the floor (more than likely still in the wrapper. . .) “Mom…. I dropped my food on the floor.” Dad: “Pick it up” “Can…