The last day started like the past few had: kids climbing into our bed, some fitful moments of trying to grasp a couple more minutes of sleep, and lastly the…
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Photos. How hard could they be? Turns out, pretty hard. Well at least they can be if you’re trying to co-ordinate two unruly kids in the sweltering midmorning heat of…
We didn’t exactly set out to repeat what we did yesterday but, by coincidence or inertia, we seemingly landed in much the same spot. The morning routine was well, routine,…
I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it. Kylo Ren, The Force Awakens Optimism wasn’t with me today. The…
A vacation with kids is not a vacation, it’s a trip The Internet Our kids are good travellers but not good vacationers. Getting to the destination isn’t usually too hard…
You’d think at this point in my life leaving the kids in someone else’s care wouldn’t merit a second thought. It’s something that I do nearly every day: dropping our…
“No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength” Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Militarische Werke. vol. 2, part 2, pp. 33–40. It…
The day started like any other on the weekend. The kids were up a good hour before my wife and I, doing their usual back and forth of playing and…