Just over a week ago, my favorite oldest married a wonderful, caring, and driven partner. This week my favorite youngest is moving out to their first apartment. Wife asks me if I’m retreating into myself or being present in the moment while I am googling pictures of the old school…
-
-
Beef Pasta. The OG Hamburger Helper flavor. I remember feeling accomplished the first time I combined home browned hamburger with this concoction of spices and pasta. Gone were the days of delivery pizza I mused at the time. Ha! Tonight I revisited this concoction, using it as a vestibule to…
-
Dirty finger nails (chicken coop build related), wrapped around a not as good as an original Cuban cigar. Tonight was fun. We burned some of the yard waste in the fire pit. I enjoyed tasty cigar and shared the music I grew up on with my youngest. Tonight we listened…
-
Senior year, coming to a close while things are closing. Today’s outing was for senior pictures. Just because times are changing, doesn’t mean time stops. The clock still ticks and life is still lived. Bonus points, it was damn nice day to be out and about.
-
She’s the first kid I knew about. I know I made her. I know who her mother is. I realize this reads as very insensitive. We do not care. We are non-traditional. Sarcasm runs deep in the familia. She is my favorite oldest kinder. She inherited her irreverence from me,…
-
Photo courtesy of my Mrs. She drove my car to work today so I could take her’s into the shop for oil change and tire rotation. While I was sitting sipping coffee and reading the news she was getting pulled over for non-working taillight (vehicle recall), and improper signal x’s…
-
Took a family field trip to a bird refuge where they were show casing a couple owls. Thankfully we showed up early, it filled up quick with multitudes of families with itsy bitsy children. One of the fun activities, disecting owl pellets full of Vole’s. Vole’s, a small mouse like…
-
We survived a dryer fire the day after Christmas. We caught it as it was starting, thankfully. A couple of blasts from the fire extinguisher, a visit from the fire department, no damage to home or family, I figured the next steps were to contact Samsung support. The good. The…
-
Good luck charms.
-
We have this rule. Whomever starts the sentence finishes the education. The joys of raising daughters.