Death. It’s an interesting subject. It is the thing that, perhaps, we are the most afraid of, and yet for some it can also be looked forward to. It is a beginning and an ending, the omega and the alpha. But one thing we can be sure about, except for a few very rare occasions, is that […]
Category Archives: Balloons
How To Entertain Your Young Children at Fenway Park
This past weekend I accidentally took my family to the hottest, most boring place in the entire universe: Fenway Park. We were there to watch the Red Sox defeat the Astros 5-4, and while we did technically do that, we had to do a lot of other things as well because of how not cool […]
“What Do You Mean My Debit Card Doesn’t Work In Canada?” and Other Tales of Woe
I had it all planned out. The perfect family getaway. The children, who have never been out of the country, had been dying to go to Canada, and I had been dying to go to a giant balloon festival. As it happens, right across the border in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, there is a huge hot air balloon […]
A Tale of Two Elmo Balloons
We took the family to see Sesame Street Live again yesterday. This was our second time, and Ruby’s best friend from school came with us. This worked out very well, except that this friend had brought money with her for a souvenir. That meant that we had to shell out money for stuff for our […]
Stop Eating Balloons
Look Edward, I know you can’t read this yet, or even technically speak English, but I am begging you, stop trying to eat balloons. Balloons are not food. Perhaps you have noticed their tendency to violently explode into your face when you bite into them. Although if you have, in fact, noticed this, it has […]