I was in the middle of a board meeting last night when I got the call. My wife had already texted me a few times during the meeting, so to get an actual phone call was already a cause for concern, and I backed my chair away from the table a few inches and answered […]
Category Archives: Edward
Constantly Surprised
Edward is three and a half. Or he will be next week. Usually this means that the things he impresses me with include his extreme and unfounded self-reliance, his capacity for destruction, and his excessive use of the phrases “NO!” “Why?” and “I DO IT MYSELF!” But every once in a while he impresses me […]
So Many Fall Festivals
It is now autumn in Vermont. This means that every weekend there is some sort of harvest festival, apple-fest, fall-fest, or solstestival. These things include apple everything, maple everything, and hay everything. And we, like everyone else in the state, go to all of them. Last weekend we went to an orchard in Shelburne, VT […]
Edward’s Thoughts on Preschool
You know, I was really looking forward to sending Edward to preschool. Freedom! Four mornings a week to myself! And then he had to go and get on that stupid bus and make me all sad and stuff. Not cool. His Mom rode in with him for his first day and then I had to […]
Preschool Orientation
Excited. Very excited. Really, really, really excited. These are just a few of the words I could use to describe our feelings yesterday morning as we took Edward in to his preschool orientation. He wore his new first day of school shirt, put on his backpack, and got his lunchbox ready, despite the fact that […]
Good Night. I Love You. I Don’t Want To See You Again.
BAM! I hear the bedroom door slam open and I pause the Netflix, stomping over to the stairs to see who is going to appear at the top of them. As I suspected, it is my three-year-old. “Edward.” I don’t need to say anything else. “Daddy, I don’t wanna sleep in your bed, I wanna […]
Edward Makes a Phone Call
After our late and exciting evening at the hot air balloon festival, we decided to sleep in, relaxing and lounging in our moderately fabulous hotel room that included doors between my bed and the children’s bed. We made it to breakfast exactly before it ended, we did nothing all glorious morning, and then we went […]
Why My Cats Are Wet and Sad
Yesterday, we found a flea in our house. One little pestilent bug, sitting there like a dark omen, waiting to bite our ankles. Well, let me tell you, I was not waiting around to find a second flea. I went all scorched Earth on that sucker. You can’t give these things any leeway in the […]
Bad Parenting Confession
I have a confession to make. My three year old still drinks out of a baby bottle. Every night. And every morning. And whenever else I need him to be quiet. I know. I KNOW! It’s bad for his teeth. It’s bad overall. There is nothing in any literature anywhere expressing the point of view […]
How to Shop With Your Kids
Look, let’s be honest here. Shopping with kids can be, to put it mildly, a trying experience. Aside from the fact that they want to buy everything in every store, they also want to push the cart, and ride in the cart, and ride on the cart, and run around like maniacs. And you can’t […]