I’ve referenced it recently, but Joshua got sick not too long ago. As I was carrying him around, he was resting his head on my shoulder and began to throw up all over the place. I like to think I’m…
I’ve referenced it recently, but Joshua got sick not too long ago. As I was carrying him around, he was resting his head on my shoulder and began to throw up all over the place. I like to think I’m…
Much of this will be preamble, but I think it’s necessary to really set up the situation at the end. It’s been a rough week. Rough for everyone in the family, and rough for Daddy in a different way. I…
Joshua loves to ask the same question over and over again. Dozens of times. Over many days. I’m not sure why it is. He has an excellent memory and will regularly bring up small details about events that happened as…
Sometimes I just want to stop Joshua, put my hands on his little shoulders and say “I know you are lying to me, my little friend.” Not as if it would matter if I did. You hear all the time…
So Joshua is a generally well-behaved kid. He’s prone to have either full-blown or miniature tantrums on a sort of regular basis, but that’s almost always either because he needs more sleep or is having something he expected changed on…
We had a strange afternoon with Joshua the other day. He had a great morning — good listening, good mood, all that stuff. He had a great day at school — got a sticker for both his morning and afternoon…
Every night I tell Joshua a story. Well, every night he doesn’t freak out and get it taken away as punishment, but I digress. When it started, I would make up a story about Thomas the Tank Engine or I…
I hope I’ve made pretty clear that, despite all the various frustrations, having kids is pretty fun. They say a lot of goofy things. They make funny faces. They giggle a lot. They give you an excuse to play with…
I decided to split my blogs up a bit. This one is on a little more friendly of a URL and will focus in more specifically on my posts about parenting. The old blog will remain up and will be…