Sometimes (read: “always”), life can be exhausting. I recently told my mom (via text, b/c who has time to actually…
This morning was the first day of kindergarten for the leader of our pack. It’s a pretty big deal. For the both…
Yesterday I spent the afternoon painting the Sistine Chapel. O.K. it was the sidewalk in front of my house, and rather…
When you’re a kid, everything around you is big. You have to reach up for door knobs. You…
“We’re going to build a park. I’ll build the slide. Charlie, you build the bridge. Daddy, you…
Someone once told me that as a parent you have one job… keep them alive. Keep them alive, and anything you do above and beyond that is frosting on the cake. You made them laugh today? Kudos for you! You taught them how to spell their names? 10 points for Gryffindor! You fed them? Bathed them? Prevented…
There comes a time in every new parent’s life when they will find themselves saying “I didn’t sign up for this.”
Sure, as educated adults most of us knew what we were getting ourselves into when we (or our wives) decided we were ready to have…
When I was a kid, there was no bigger celebration than on the 4th of July. My parents would pack up the car and we’d head to my Grandma’s house in Lyons, IL and basically spend the day running around doing all of the things that would have normally gotten us in trouble on any other day of the year. We’d…