So this morning we sold both of our kids to the circus. Ha ha! No, that’s ridiculous. No, we traded them for some day-old cotton candy. Seriously though, this has been one of those mornings where, between bouts of the children screaming and fighting and crying, I remember with fondness and a hint of melancholy [...]

These were the words my son used to try and convince me to give him some candy. We’ve been rewarding him when he uses the potty, which worked well enough for his sister, but there’s something about the concept that he either doesn’t get or he understands it perfectly and is feigning ignorance because he [...]

Yesterday, I gave the kids each a small piece of cake as an afternoon snack and then went to get some things together for dinner while they ate at the kitchen table. They were gone when I turned around. I quickly located them underneath the table, with the rest of the cake, eating as quickly [...]

On the eve of receiving my new D70 Outfit, I thought I’d review the value I’ve extracted from my current digital camera. Purchasing, developing, and printing film is expensive. If you go cheap and spend $3/24 exposures on film and another $4 on 4×6 prints, you’re spending about $0.29/photo. And most of those aren’t going [...]

“Your package is in the UPS system and is on time with a scheduled delivery date of Feb 9, 2005.”

Had the following conversations with The Boy this morning at breakfast. He’s on this thing now where he says he doesn’t want X, I’ll offer him Y, sometimes he’ll accept Y, then he says he wants X. He’s been doing it for weeks. It’s not frustrating anymore. “I want something to drink.” “You have lemonade [...]

So, occasionally I’ll Tivo a movie for the kids so we can watch it later without commercials. The Girl has taken an interest in the remote controls, asking what the buttons do, and so I’ve been teaching her. Her current favorites are the button on the television remote that lets you view two programs on [...]

Until recently, when we’d go out to eat, both of the kids would clamber over to my side of the table and sit on either side of me if we got a booth. This is usually not what I have in mind when I think of a relaxing lunch. They love her — it was [...]

The kids have taken to sleeping on the floor in their bedroom — “camping out” — the last few nights. They put down a comforter for padding, then blankets to keep warm. It’s quite cute. Except that it must not be very comfortable because they keep coming into our bed in the middle of the [...]

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