I’ve always wished that I could stop my children from aging. Just freeze them at a point in their life so that we could all well and thoroughly enjoy it. There were a few ages that I was particularly fond of. Just after learning to crawl. Just as they were acquiring speech. 18 months was [...]

Do your kids have ESP?

This is actually from a few months ago. She writes much more clearly now. In fact, she’s such a good speller that we can’t use spelling as a secret code any more while talking. If you look carefully, you can match up most of the words from the original to the translation. Original text: Der [...]

“You’re a scaredy-cat.” “I am not! I’m seven.” “Well, I’m seven, too.” “I was born on March 16.” “I was born on February 1.” “Oh yeah, well, I was born in 1999!” “So? I was born in 1898!” “Oh. Well, you were born first then.”

We just finished watching the PBS program Texas Ranch House which is a mini-series that attempts to teach a little history about ranch-era Texas by dressing a bunch of volunteers in frontier costumes and transporting them “back in time” to 1867 to run a ranch and herd cattle and see how long they can put [...]

The lovely and talented wife recently taught The Boy how to play rock, paper, scissors, a game I’ve known about for as long as I can remember but which I’ve only just learned is an extremely popular hand game that merits a pictorial diagram, an “official” strategy guide, and actual tournaments with a World Championship [...]

Please, please, please let it be as good as the trailers.