A few months back, when the kids were still going to school, I witnessed a rather bizarre exchange between my youngest son, who was three at the time, and his mother. I was eating breakfast at the time, and my wife was scurrying around trying to get a snack put together for the little guy’s […]

Believe it or not, the kids used to like asparagus. We lightly grill it with a little oil when we cook out. It’s the easiest veggie I know of to cook on the grill, and comes out tasting great. But, of course, one day the kids decided they didn’t like it any more. I don’t […]

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Prior to C having his tonsils out, he had a string of strep throat cases. One evening, he overheard us talking about the tonsils issue and asked us about it: “Take my tonsils out?” “Yes,” his momma said. “If you have strep too many more times, it means that your tonsils are sick and the […]

I think the first time we heard it was during a scary(ish) episode of The Backyardigans. N (who was three at the time) climbed into my lap and grabbed my shoulder. “That was Yikes!” “Yikes?” He nodded “Uh-uh.” He held his hands out for emphasis. “That was yikes!” That was several months ago. Ever since […]

My wife had to go to Texas a while back, leaving me flying solo with the kids for a few days. Though the three of us get along fine, things do sometimes get a little bizarre. One night, as I was making grilled cheese sandwiches in the kitchen, N ran out of his room without […]

I’ve thought several times that I should add a “bizarre” category, but at this point (after 470+ tales), it would involve going back and re-categorizing such a large number of them, that I just don’t think I can do it. As we were eating lunch the other day, our four year old noticed his momma […]

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A while back we had a stomach virus go round the family. As usual, this meant a couple days of sickness for each of the kids. I was down for a week. The virus made itself known during dinner. We were trying to convince C (our 5 year old) to finish his chicken when he […]

Our three year old became a four year old yesterday. At the end of the festivities, as I was sitting in a chair pondering the cleanup, the little guy ran over to stand in front of me. “Daddy, am I four now?” “Yep!” I said. “You’re four!” He looked down at himself, then back up […]