I’ve mentioned before that
we are a 4-H family. Each year for the past several years my 13 year old daughter has submitted an entry in the horse lovers project. She has always done pretty well. This year, however, she did great and took home the “Best in show” ribbon.
In past years the project has [...]

My 10 month old daughter started crawling this week. After weeks of being a hair’s breadth to crawling this has got to feel pretty good for her. She’s been crawling backwards for a month and it was getting frustrating for her to get further away from her goal every time she tried moving towards a [...]

I believe I’ve mentioned before that I come from a family of six. There are four siblings from my mothers first marriage and my younger brother and I from my mothers second marriage. We aren’t a close family. Despite this dysfunctional family unit (we were dysfunctional before it was cool) I have always thought a [...]

I’m not quite sure how it happened. It seems I should have just gone along with the
guinea pig.
All I’ve ever wanted to do, since meeting my wife, was give her all she wanted. Easy right?
It wasn’t so long ago, just 4 years now, that we hated our home. We wanted out more than anything [...]

My wife and I were chatting about a friend who was having a drinking water well drilled on his property.
“They’re down to around 200 feet now.” I said.
“What kind of well are they digging?” My son interjected.
“Well, a water well of course. What other kinds of wells are there?” I said matter-of-factly.
My son said, [...]

We hadn’t really thought about the possibility of a preschool bully. When our 3 year old daughter started sharing complaints over dinner time we decided to share a bit of advice. Read more…

In the fall of last year my sister and brother-in-law were planning on visiting my family during Christmas. There were some thoughts of my mother visiting as well, though distant they were. Unfortunately this didn’t happen since they all fell ill and traveling just wasn’t a good idea. My wife was really looking forward [...]

I chronicled our first experience with this event last year (albeit 11 months late) in “
The price of winning“.

This year’s Pinewood Derby has come and gone. I promised myself not to get too worked up over the inequalities that were glaringly blatant like I did last year. My blood pressure stayed under control, and I [...]