The biggest gift I am giving my family this year for Christmas wasn’t purchased in a store. It wasn’t ordered online. It wasn’t even anything they asked for. Not directly, anyway. But now that I’ve given them this gift, I realize it was something they wanted. And something they needed. In fact, it was something […]
Archives for December 2017
The Sandy Hook Family
My Facebook feed is flooded with tributes, memories, and reminders of the 26 people who were killed in the Sandy Hook shootings today, largely because I live just a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary school. And today is the fifth anniversary of the most unimaginable tragedy I’ve known in my lifetime. Is it the […]
If My Kid Was Doing Something Careless, Questionable Or Illegal On Social Media, I Would Want To Know
Yesterday a friend of mine posted the following question on Facebook: Just out of curiosity, how many parents would want to know if there was a picture on social media of their underage son or daughter with friends and beers in their hands? This question reminded me of a post I wrote a couple years […]
Ham, Egg and Hashbrown Bake (100% Kid Approval Rating)
A couple weeks ago I asked readers for what egg dishes they served for dinner, and yesterday I tried my own version of one that was suggested by several people. More than one reader suggested a sausage, egg and hash brown bake. But we didn’t have sausage, so I used ham instead. It was SO […]
I Am Pretty Good With Kids, To Be Honest.
Last Christmas one of the things Number 4 asked for was an iPod, but after seeing how the kids are often irresponsible with stuff that they don’t actually spend their own money on, I decided that if they wanted any electronics, they would have to buy them themselves. So Number 4 has been saving up […]
Five Months
I haven’t had any booze in five months. FIVE MONTHS. I’ve made it through the 4th of July and Labor Day and my birthday and my anniversary and Halloween and Thanksgiving. I’ve made it through other things, but that’s because I’ve just chosen not to attend them. Tonight all my favorite baseball moms are having […]