Every night for the past several years Ruby has jumped out to scare me as I walk upstairs to tuck her in at bedtime. It was scary the first time. It was sort of surprising the second time. After that it was cute for a while, then annoying, and then it just became a part […]
Category Archives: Ruby
Goodbye Thursdays
I had plans to write something great today. I was going to tell you how Ruby and I both got glasses, and how cute we were, and how excited she was. I was going to tell you that Edward was jealous, but that he will also be getting glasses in a few weeks after further […]
The Things We Eat For Love
On Saturday morning, Edward decided to make my wife breakfast in bed. Being six years old, I did not think that he had what it took to make a truly..what’s the word…edible breakfast. But he surprised me. He made eggs for everyone. He got the bowl out, cracked the eggs, fished the pieced of shell out […]
You Should Probably Just Vaporize Yourself
Ruby is taking the bus to school now. This is despite her many protests, scowls, and threats. For the first part of the week I rode the bus with her, got off with her, and then bused myself back home. Wednesday she had Forest School of course, and yesterday I tried taking the bus with […]
Forest School
What is Forest School? This is an excellent question, and one we have been trying to answer for the good folks over at Regular School for some time now. No one ever seems quite satisfied with the answer, because Forest School is a mysterious labyrinth of adventurous puzzlement. It is a place of fairies and […]
Two Kids, Two Parents, Two Schools
Ruby started fourth grade today, and Edward started first grade. This is very exciting, but a little sad, because for the first time ever I did not get to drop off one of my children on their first day of school. I couldn’t. It was impossible. They are going to two different schools now. We […]
We Took the Kids to Vermont Comic Con – This is What They Bought
When Edward got his superhero wish sendoff back in May, we were told by some of those super heroic folk that we would be getting passes to Vermont Comicon as well. 2016 is the third year for Vermont Comicon and I have been wanting to go for the past two years, but have always had […]
The Night Voices
Edward was creeping down the stairs again as I tried to finish reading Ruby her story. My wife took the turn this time and brought him back upstairs as I continued with Harry Potter. It was unusual for Edward to be out of bed; we had won a long and hard bedtime routine battle and […]
The Things We Pack, and the Things We Don’t
We are 17 days away from the big move, and packing is starting to kick into high gear. A month out, I tried to divide the job into 4 weekly packing categories: things we use all the time, things we use a lot but could live without for a time, things we use occasionally, and […]
Amazon’s Alexa – A 21st Century Game of Telephone
I am a lucky blogger. As an attendee of the Dad 2.0 blogging conference this past year, I was eligible to participate in a contest, in which I did not win the grand prize. But I did win the next prize! Yes, I came home with an Amazon Echo, complete with new virtual friend Alexa. […]