Did I mention that we were moving? No, I didn’t, because it was not public knowledge until quite recently. But now that it has been announced in the church’s annual report and I have had several congregation members ask me about it, I feel safe to finally announce that next month we will be leaving […]
Category Archives: Edward
I Am Writing This From My Son’s Bed
Shhhhhhhh! Stop clicking so loudly! You’ll wake him up! This is the rarest of rare opportunities. In fact, for all my know this could be the last time ever. But at this very moment, my son is actually taking a nap! I’m not sure how it happened, and I don’t want to jinx it, but […]
Overheard on the Kindergarten Field Trip
Yesterday I had the privilege of chaperoning my son, along with the rest of his Kindergarten class, as they celebrated the end of the school year with a picnic. What follows are eleven actual quotes that I overheard the children say as I monitored them in the park. One of them was said by my […]
Twelve Adventures: #7 – Why We Walked Over the Brooklyn Bridge
We weren’t really planning to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. We were supposed to, according to the magical white folder, be spending the morning at the NY Transit Museum, and then we had day two of that double-decker bus tour. But before we could do any of that, Edward wanted to go to the toy […]
Edward’s First Broadway Show
I honestly didn’t know if we were going to make it. After such a long week, and then another busy morning, an evening show seemed like possibly the worst idea ever. But on the other hand, it was Broadway! As we had looked over the itinerary for the trip earlier in the week, my wife and I […]
The Epic Superhero Wish Send-off (& How We Almost Missed It)
We thought he wasn’t sleeping because he was excited. We were all excited. The limousine was arriving at 8 am to whisk us away to the airport for Edward’s Make-a-Wish trip to New York City. So we were excited. But as he lay in the bed next to me at 3 am, not sleeping, I could […]
Edward’s Wish
So much has happened over that past week that I can clearly not contain it in one post, so I won’t. I will spend the next several days regaling you with specific tales, anecdotes, stories, and adventures that took place during our week-long Make-a-Wish trip to New York City. What I will do here is […]
Three Days to Adventure!
It’s getting real up in here people! We are three days away from Edward’s Make-a-Wish adventure trip to New York City, and we have the details. Well, most of the details. Okay, none of the details. But we have the schedule and the general overview, and this trip is going to be packed! It is going […]
A Brief Account of the Bad Smell(s) in My Car
For Mother’s Day my wife asked for a very specific gift, that being that the children and I clean out the car. The car was, admittedly, a mess, containing various items that the children and I have left in it over the stretch of time since the last major cleaning. These items we dutifully cleaned up, […]
The Power of “More”
Our dinner last included rice. There was exactly enough for everyone to have what they wanted, and yet when I was serving it I left about a third of my son’s portion in the pot. When we sat down at the table he immediately gobbled up all of his rice, as I knew he would, […]