Back in my single days, I used to go out for happy hour on a fairly regular basis. Most Fridays I went to this place called Dry Dock with a bunch of other teachers. It was my Cheers. After a couple years, I got to know the regulars. I had become one of them myself. […]
Humor
The First Time I Took All Seven Kids To The Beach
Yesterday I took all seven kids to the town beach. Even with my dad there to help, keeping track of everyone was a challenge. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 are fairly easy. But Number 4, 5, 6, and 7 take some work. 5 and 6 can’t swim and need you right there with them, and […]
Parenting. Sometimes you strive for perfection. Other times, it’s a pass/fail course.
Last weekend I posted this on the facebook page: Tonight is a screw-the-teeth-brushing-get-your-ass-into-bed kind of night. And someone left this comment: ooookay. What brought that on? I wasn’t quite sure what to make of that… That ooookay, with 4 o’s, kind of left me with a feeling of disapproval. And the “what brought that on?” gave me the […]
The Universal Birthday Party
If you have a child in elementary school, then you have most likely just entered birthday party hell. Between Numbers 5, 6, and 7, I know that for the next 10 months, we will be at Chuck E. Cheese, or Fun Factor, or Gymnastics Spectrum, or a bowling alley or some other germ-ridden hell hole […]
The Eight Stages Of Parenting
It took seven kids to get to this point, but I have finally figured out the key to raising children. You simply have to survive making it from one challenging phase to the next. Because just when you make it through the stage that you thought was going to put you either in jail or the […]