Here is common problem around our house that you may experience yourself. We are getting ready to start family movie night, and my wife and I try to suggest some exciting new movie that kids have never seen but that we think they will love. But do the kids appreciate our brilliant recommendations? No! Our […]
Category Archives: Ruby
Dad, Do Pirates Have to Be Boys?
So we’re sitting on the couch watching something as harmless(?) as Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and Ruby, my kindergartener, asks me “Dad, do pirates have to be boys?” So what do I say? My first thought, to myself anyway, is that for many years women weren’t even allowed on ships. Bad luck supposedly. And […]
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 […]
Hiding the Giant
We have a new favorite game at my house. It is called “Hiding the Giant.” Actually, when Edward says it he says “Hiding the Gi-nant,” and technically I suppose it should be called “Hiding FROM the Giant,” but whatever you want to call it, we play it all the time. The game goes something like […]
Irony at the Walgreen’s Pharmacy
After being assured on Monday that Ruby’s strep test was negative, and that strep did not include a cough or any upper respiratory stuff, we sent her to school yesterday, only to receive a call from the pediatrician an hour later confirming her positive overnight strep test. Lovely. Just what my day was missing. So […]
The Animal Sounds Game
Ruby was home sick from kindergarten yesterday with a cough and a sore throat. I took her in to the doctor to be sure that it wasn’t anything too serious or contagious, and they sent us home and said to basically wait it out and she would be fine. So that left us at home […]
My Kids’ First Car Accident
The day hadn’t really started off well anyway. I’d woken up with a tweaked back, barely able to stand, so I had scheduled an emergency chiropractor visit and taken Edward to church with me so that I could work on music sorting and planning, and he could spread toys all over the choir room. It […]
One Sick, One Not
Perhaps one of the more difficult parenting tasks I have undertaken is the care of one sick child when the other one is feeling fine. You parents with only one child do not have to deal with this, which is why you are big jerks. Nevertheless, I will try to explain to you what you […]
Locked Out
It started, as so many things do, very gradually. At first it was just a bit of a sticky lock. After a while, it became difficult to get the deadbolt on the front door to open all the way. A tiny bit of it would stick out, even after it had been unlocked. As time […]
Only Good Things
As I have been thinking about the ethics of blogging about one’s children, I have become keenly aware of the need to say more good things than bad about them. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think I paint a positive picture of them in a general sense, but sometimes I get caught up in […]