Laurel, Today you turn 10. That’s a tough pill for me to swallow. I can’t believe how far we’ve come in the last 10 years. I remember holding you just after you were born, and whispering, “It’s just you and me, kid.” And that was the truth, then. I could never have imagined what would have happened....
Archives - July 2009
The Big 1-0.
Friday, July 31 2009 - Family
Different Gifts.
Tuesday, July 28 2009 - Family
Laurel and I often discuss how people aren’t really ‘smarter’ than other people, that just about any given person knows more about something than any other given person. We all have different gifts. Laurel’s are fairly obvious at this point; we’ve been waiting to discover what Ethan’s will be. We’ve...
Thus is the Difference Between Boys and Girls.
Tuesday, July 28 2009 - Funny Stuff
Ethan: “I wish if my penis could fart.”
Me: “You wish your penis could fart?”
Ethan: “Yup!”
Sensitivity Training.
Thursday, July 16 2009 - Funny Stuff
Well, it’s only natural that the way for a progressive parent’s child to embarrass her would be this: Today while shopping, an African-American family passed us, and Ethan yelled, “HEY! THEY HAVE BLACK FACES!!!!” at the top of his lungs. Of course, this comes just a couple of weeks after Laurel asked...
All-Star Game Day.
Wednesday, July 15 2009 - Family
We are not particularly rabid baseball fans. In fact, while I enjoy going to a game now and then it’s mostly just for the atmosphere. It doesn’t really matter much to me who’s playing. I don’t follow standings or rankings or whatever. I don’t really care enough about it to pledge allegiance to a particular...
Expanding Family.
Friday, July 10 2009 - Family
Before we went on vacation, the kids and I fell in love with Will, a shelter cat on display at the local pet store. We felt it would be unfair to adopt Will before we left for two weeks, so we didn’t take him home. Well – that, and Greg says he doesn’t like cats. He didn’t want cats, he’d spent too much...
Recaps.
Friday, July 10 2009 - General
Busy, busy, busy, lots to do, can’t stop for long, here’s what we’ve been doing-- Vacation: We learned that mosquitoes outnumber every other kind of wildlife in Yellowstone National Park. We learned that the state of Colorado does not think much of posting signs informing travelers of which road is at...
Great Yellowstone Adventure 2009, Days Thirteen – The End!
Friday, July 03 2009 - Travel
Loveland, CO – Our family chose to tour breweries in the greater Fort Collins area on Day Thirteen. “We started at 10:30 a.m., which is apparently perfectly acceptable in Ft. Collins,” Michelle observed. “We were most definitely not the first people at New Belgium.” After tasting Dandelion Ale along...
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