Happy 2016! We made it! This is the future, and we are alive! It is time to live like we have arrived. No more worrying about what might happen (because what did that ever get us anyway?), but instead we focus on new themes and goals and challenges that we will face with joy and […]
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The 2015 Christmas Eve Scavenger Hunt (CESH), and What Came After
Every year, my wife’s family spends Christmas Eve together, eating cookies, drinking tea and hot chocolate, opening gifts, singing carols, and running around the downtown area publicly humiliating themselves. So basically just your normal holiday traditions. We rotate the responsibilities of designing and constructing the epic photo/video scavenger hunt each year, and this time it […]
The One Thing I Want to Tell the People Judging Me in the Supermarket
Yesterday it was so bad that they called me and asked me to pick him up from school at lunch time. So I did. I put aside the rest of my day and the things I was supposed to be doing and I picked him up early from Kindergarten and we went out for lunch […]
Waking Nightmare
This morning, as I lay in bed waiting for my son to wake up, I was pulled suddenly back into a nightmare that almost stopped my heart. From a deep sleep, his whole body suddenly went rigid with a bed-shaking jerk that almost caused him to fall off the side of the bed. A huge, […]
How to Cram Two Children and a Large Tree into a Mazda 5
“It’ll fit,” I said, sizing up the tree out in the field. “It’s the perfect size.” My wife was the one who’d found it, using her spacial awareness superpowers to sniff out the perfectly sized and shaped tree for our living room. She wasn’t in costume, but her superpowers still worked. Ruby agreed that this […]
In Which I Contemplate a Life of Crime to Help My Son
It was right there… All I had to do was to reach over the counter and take it… To begin with, I was not at my best. We had been in the hospital all week and sleep was not really a thing anymore. They had finally released us and sent us home with a prescription […]
How To Tell When Your Five-Year-Old Is Coming Out of a Drug-Induced Haze
If you are like me, then you have probably spent the past week in the hospital watching your son sleep. So I know you get it. It’s not all that much fun. But it won’t last forever. Eventually those drugs are going to wear off, or else he will start getting used to them, and […]
The Future Just Ain’t What it Used to Be
Be Careful What You Blog About… I typed into Facebook on Saturday as I sat in the urgent care clinic waiting for my son to have his head stapled back together. The last post I had written espoused a theory that you should not tell your children about the fun things you had planned ahead […]
To Avoid Disappointment, Don’t Tell Your Children Anything
Oh man, we are going to have such a fun weekend! And the kids have no idea! Because I did not tell them! Ha ha! Why would I ever tell them about anything in advance? No thank you. I have lit that match before, and I have been burned. You see, I have no idea […]
Curing Epilepsy With Mozart
You know, at this point we’ll try anything. We are currently on medication number seven. We have reduced screen time. We have monitored activity levels and body stress. We are working towards cutting all sugar out of our diets (except for when, I assume, I will sneak out in the middle of the night and […]