As you likely know, Heather is a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan and I am a lifelong San Francisco Giants fan. This complicates things when it comes to our kids because no one (and I stress NO ONE) can be a fan of both teams. To remedy this, Heather and I decided that on our…
Pancakes For Dinner
March 10th, 2016Comments: 6
I’m no professional chef (some might say I’m not even an amateur one), but there’s one meal I’ve gotten pretty good at making for the kids — pancakes. Just about every weekend the three of us whip up pancakes together, and Annie and James help out by cracking eggs, dumping flour into the bowl, and stirring…
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Annie The Paleontologist
January 15th, 2014Comments: 17
Annie loves herself some princesses, but she’s also still very interested in dinosaurs. I find her interest in dinosaurs pretty cool because I also loved dinosaurs when I was her age. My love for dinosaurs wasn’t nearly as sophisticated as Annie’s, though. Whereas I was mostly impressed by their size and how scary the T-Rex was, Annie…
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Sorta, Kinda, Not Really…
October 3rd, 2013Comments: 13
Since Annie is only three there are some things that are too complicated to explain to her, so I give her the “sorta, kinda, not really” version. For example, when she asked me where James came from I told her that “Mommy and I made him.” That’s true in a vague sort of way, or…
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Different Like Me
October 1st, 2013Comments: 33
I haven’t talked about this in a while so many of you may not remember, but I’ve had to deal with a minor form of Tourette Syndrome most of my life. One of the things that worries me as a dad is the prospect of my kids developing tics too. My tics have made my…
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