Cute Little Bastards

As mentioned on my last post about John and Julia with their Lego’s, we had a quick trip up to Orlando this Sunday.  We went to Disney’s Animal Kingdom and I have to say that it only served to piss me off all the more at Walt Disney. Disney costs too much, it’s too up […]

I am about to cross a very busy road with John, Julia, and Shannon tonight and I see Shannon has John’s hand. I scan for Julia and nothing - then again all in a fraction of a second and again nothing, and then the words are coming out of my mouth in alarm:
“Where’s Julia, Shannon […]

There is no greater example of push and pull in my life than having my children on both sides of the country. I felt that most acutely yesterday as I hopped a plane from West Palm Beach to San Francisco to celebrate Max’s 16th birthday. I was shocked at how difficult it was to […]

Given that mum and dad, yours truly, first connected in a bowling alley in Phoenix Arizona it was no surprise that John and Julia’s first bowling outing was such fun for them.  Last night, we ventured over to Verdes Tropicana Bowling Alley on Belvedere Rd for some family fun.
Verdes Tropicana set us up in […]

We’ve always known that John was a bit of a Pixie but now we have incontrovertible proof. John started in a 2-hour per day play group program yesterday that is hosted by the City of West Palm Beach. It’s the Pixie Program. Why they choose to call it this when ‘Pixie’ is such a gender […]

We came close to sending John and Julia (3 and 2) to their first school. Today would have been their first day. As it happens, we don’t have it in our ’single steady income / starting a business budget’ at this point so we had to cancel our reservation. To be honest I’m both […]