Kids: The Experience.

On Being Truman.

January 23, 2012

This post has been written and in my drafts folder for over a month, hence the Christmas references. I went back and forth about publishing it or not because there are parts of it that could be construed as me being arrogant about blogging. I don’t ever want to come across that way. I am [...]

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Tangled With Party Spirit.

January 19, 2012

Caution: Overly Photoey post ahead with many vague Tangled references that only a Mom who has been forced to watch it 876 times would understand. I am not a crafty person. (Mainly because I’m an extremely lazy person.) But you better believe that when I do get a crafty spark, you’re absolutely going to hear [...]

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‘Twas The Night Before Her Birthday…

January 10, 2012

Some of you are about to gasp in horror at my detached and neglectful parenting.  Others will congratulate me in complete awe of my remarkably inspiring accomplishment. Are you ready?  Here it is. I made it 4 years and 364 days without ever sleeping in one of my children’s beds or ever having one of [...]

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Celebrating Five With Tradition.

January 8, 2012

All holidays and birthdays in my family are opportunities to re-tell the same embarrassing stories over and over again. And they always seem to be about me. (Did my brothers never do anything story-worthy?!?) And despite the ridiculous repetition of these stories, someone always inexplicably acts like they haven’t heard it before so that it [...]

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She Loves Them Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

December 30, 2011

My Mom continuously serenaded me during my formative years. (Later, she apologized for this, as she was quite afraid that she had crippled my musical abilities.  Her High School choir teacher had, after all, asked her to please just lip sync.) But instead of kid’s songs (although she sang those, too), her shuffle was usually [...]

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The Star of Egypt.

December 27, 2011

“You know how they make very nice, expensive replicas of Harry Potter wands and stuff?” “Yes…” “Well, I want to get Ali something like that for Christmas – something special just from Daddy.” “Umm…a wand?” “No, no, no. Not Harry Potter – something Princess related. I want to get her a real-feeling, heavy piece of [...]

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Christmas Disillusionment.

December 8, 2011

Dear Mr. Stover, When I saw a display of your single serving treats in my local drugstore, I bought a couple for my daughter’s Christmas calendar. I purchased them because I know that you have good chocolate.  And I care about this because I usually manage to eat approximately 53% of my daughter’s loot, and [...]

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The Christmas Countdown.

December 7, 2011

According to Chris, the best part of vacation is the anticipation. I don’t exactly agree with him, because being the logical person that I am, if anticipating something is better than the something you’re anticipating, then you’re obviously over-anticipating and therefore setting yourself up for failure. Not that I would ever overphilosophize the minutia of [...]

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The Art of Storytelling.

November 30, 2011

Ali has begun filling all of our car rides with long, meandering stories with intensely complicated and slightly psychedelic plots, characters popping in and out with no introduction, and with endless subplots with no resolve.  She has graciously offered to guest blog one of these high quality stories, with the stipulation that I do the [...]

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On Meeting The Party Friends.

November 17, 2011

Ali loves to play on our Wii.  She especially loves it because not only have we created a Mii for her, myself, and Chris, but  we have dozens of our friends in there also, which she easily recognizes as they pop in and out of her games because I am, if I may say so [...]

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