Tales of a Travel Team Parent
This isn’t intended to be a gripe session. We know we have made our bed and we are happy to lie in it. This is, as much of this blog is, simply a sharing of our experience in case it is beneficial...
Posts Tagged ‘daddy’:
Traffic Lessons
Perhaps the most important lesson from driving in traffic is “Don’t live your life like a driver in traffic”. I remember an old joke that if you wake up looking like the picture on your driver’s...
Accepting No
A couple weeks ago my oldest and I were leaving the volleyball club. It was a Sunday evening and there was a couple open courts on our way out toward the exit. He asked if we could stop for a milkshake...
Tryouts are Trying Times
With the beginning of the school year has come fall sports tryouts. We aren’t very good at staying uninvolved or uncaring around tryouts. We get a little too emotionally attached to what our kids...
Sport of a Different Sort
Most of us would probably agree that telemarketing calls are annoying. They typically come in the middle of dinner or while you are watching a show or simply not wanting to talk to a total stranger about...
A Sterling lesson in Ownership
The boys mentioned Donald Sterling tonight – something about him enjoying the spotlight (not sure where they got that from but seemed like a good opportunity for a lesson). While I do not condone...
Bites of Responsibility
Well, it’s been four weeks with the puppies. Twenty-seven days to be exact. Twenty-seven nights of interrupted sleep. We aren’t regretting it but it has been trying at times. The puppies are...
Homework review, sort of
Going over the Rubric for his book report (while he watches his brother play video games, only half paying attention to me):
Me: “So, you have your cover?”
Him: “Yes”
“Your...
Spark some interest
One of the best things about the holidays is spending time with family. I particularly like when we get to hang out with “the cousins” – that would be my nieces and nephews, all in high...
(New) Habits are hard to keep
So my attempt to write a post a day for the month of December failed after 4 days. Wow, that was quick. Life gets in the way but really, 4 days? Seems my attempt to get in some time on the bike and/or...
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