My boy is entering his senior year in High school in just a few days. Yesterday evening I watched as his football team scrimmaged. I sat alone in the stands and considered how my little boy has grown into a young man of great heart and stature. He really is a unique kid, of [...]

Earlier this summer my family and I went to a local park, with a few dozen other families, to attend a Cub Scout Crossover Ceremony. This is where each scout progresses on to the next level of scouting

The Ceremony was nice. My son got a few awards, and we took lots of photos. I [...]

I’ve always been a Jimmy Buffet fan. I love lyrics that tell a story and Jimmy’s do just that.
There is one special song that has always encapsulated so much of what being a Dad means to me, especially a dad to girls.
I listen to this and it makes me want to keep them small.
Close [...]

The last couple of weeks found me walking in the door to a mixture of gun fire and children screaming. Not real guns mind you, but those found at the end of a child’s wrist looking astonishingly enough like their hand. I casually dismissed this the first few times.
“We don’t play with real, or [...]

The other day I was looking through some old school work my three year old daughter had completed. We like to decorate our dining area with whatever art projects she brings home and rotate them out every couple of months. We’ve also started doing this with our two year old as she has become quite [...]

Whew, what a weekend. I took several days off and went camping with my son and his Cub Scout troop. I vowed to make this tip different from last. This time I came PREPARED!. I packed so much stuff for our 3 day-2 night trip that if we packed an extra toothbrush I think I [...]

Our household is not unlike most others with small children in that when evening comes the bedtime ritual kicks in. Our girl have a pretty strict bedtime that lands them in bed by 8:30 PM.
The ritual actually starts right after dinner and, depending on the evening, begins with bath time followed by pajamas and then [...]

When my oldest kids were twelve and eight we lived in very small house in the city. We were a few blocks from a small local grocer on a very busy road. We used to walk the streets that crossed through the neighborhood pretty often and it was only a matter of time before my [...]