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Archive for April, 2005

The challenge of working from home  

My children are only five and three, so it is difficult for them to understand the concept “working at home.” Until a couple of months ago, when I started this at-home gig, “Work” was someplace else. Work was the place Daddy went to every morning and came home from every night. Work [...]

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I’m father to a nut  

Son (singing): Boy boy boy boy boy boy booooyyyy!
Me: Nut nut nut nut nut nut nut.
Son (seriously): I’m not a nut.
Me: Do you really believe that?
Son: No.

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Shots  

Today the Girl got her last round of vaccinations and boosters until she turns eleven. We took the honest approach and told her what was going to happen and that it would hurt but not for very long. She was very brave and handled it all exceptionally well. She cried a little [...]

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The Spring time change is killing me  

Or possibly, my Boy is killing me and I’m just blaming it on the Spring time change because it’s convenient. Really though, if there’s a good argument for not moving the time forward an hour in the Spring, it would be that children who can’t tell the time don’t care about the time change [...]

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Hell  

I’m walking out the door right now to go to Chuck E. Cheese’s. Pray for me.

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