Today, as part of my fairly excellent birthday vacation day, I got to go to Caleb’s school and eat lunch with him. It was a great experience, eating a meal with prekindergarteners that laugh and joke and make fun of their food. The experience actually inspired a brand new birthday Ficlet entitled “Ancient Children“. The […]
Today is my birthday
By the way, today is my 31st birthday. Well wishes are not only encouraged, they are demanded. You may begin groveling now.
Big weekend plans
This should be one of those big, hectic weekends that we seem to have a love/hate relationship with these days. We’ve got Brant’s Great Pumpkin Festival most of the day Saturday, and then that night I resume duties as emcee to the First Things Tour concert coming through our church. I’ve got to figure out […]
Time to tell an embarrassing story
As if it weren’t already obvious enough, I’m about to tell a story that actually occurred this weekend and contains a fair bit of personal embarrassment. Just a warning. So, I found my wedding ring on Saturday. Yeah, let me tell a bit of back story first. About two years ago, I was out un-burying […]
The ball doesn’t get “kicked”, it gets “blasted”
I’ve had a couple questions about the current header graphic. Yes, that’s a shot of Caleb I took just as his foot was about to blast the soccer ball. Yeah, that’s right – he never just “kicks” the ball. Oh, no. Not my son. No, he blasts the ball. He runs up to that ball, […]
Weekends are made to be broken
Ever have a weekend sneak up on you that you intended to be quiet and peaceful and ended up being hectic and exhausting? Yeah, me either. For some reason, I had thought this weekend would be fairly mundane and routine. We had Caleb’s soccer game on Saturday morning, and that was pretty much it. We […]
Three-day weekend!
Gotta love our Labor Day weekend. Let’s celebrate working by not! I’ve got a lot of Metroid on the plate for the weekend, obviously, with a picnic on Monday, provided the father-in-law opts out of visiting. I never know how those sort of things are going to end up. I just let the wife plan […]
My Begindergartener
By the way, tomorrow, Caleb starts “Begindergarten”. That’s what they call pre-K in this school district. This bears repeating. My first born son. Starts. School. Tomorrow. There aren’t enough clever IM-based acronyms to convincingly communicate this sense of complete and utter disbelief. My son is going to school. I submit to you that he is […]
Iowa State Fair
Last Monday, Amanda, myself, and Amanda’s mother all gathered up the boys and several backpacks filled with supplies and trekked out to the Iowa State Fair. It’s a yearly pilgrimage, and a welcome one at that. I feel as though this year we didn’t get to see everything we would have liked. While we got […]
My long painful weekend
I had Friday off of work and had planned to do some stuff to the house in addition to having some fun, too. Man, I was not prepared for the amount of brutal damage my body would be subject to over a three day period. Friday: Art Festival. Walking around in sandals for a couple […]