This is what I find sitting on my kitchen counter. It was covered in plastic wrap. So thoughtful of the generous little forker. It took me a while to catch on to this scheme, but my children will do this: leave a sliver of dessert after consuming the majority of it. I used to think it...
Category Archives: Daniel
¡Abandono!
I honestly thought that by the time my kids were in school, bedtimes would become easier. Boy was I wrong. It’s a real challenge for my teenagers to simply go to bed. I gain more information from my teens in the five minutes before their school night bedtimes than any other time of the day....
“Yuck and Awe”
The kids found a snake and begged me to take photos of it. Yeah right. Nikon doesn’t make a lens long enough to coax me into snake photography, so Daniel took this photo which I happen to think is quite stunning. (Way to think composition, Dan! Way to know aperture and focal points!) Also, I am...
They’ve got spirit, yes they do.
Trust me when I say that no amount of begging, pleading or bribing could have made Logan and Dan wear a dress shirt and tie to school but it’s Homecoming Week and today is “Class it up” day. They asked me if they could wear this to school. You could have knocked me over with...
The lesson here? Don’t mock as I prepare your food.
Weekday mornings in this house are insane. It’s not that the kids are tired or crabby when they get up from school. It’s that they have recharged their sarcasm batteries during their sleep and are chomping at the bit to tease me unmercifully before leaving for school. It’s their way of making sure I won’t...
No longer living in the shadow
Daniel is in ninth grade this year and he’s used to living in the shadow of his older brother, Kevin, who has been playing Varsity Football for four years now. Dan has run the sidelines with all of us, watching Kev make the plays and get the glory. But Dan is making a name for...
Oozes honesty
Who says you have to know every play in the game book?
Tickets to the gun show
Who would have thought that regular XBox marathons would get you pipes of this magnitude?
Way to go, Dan!
While the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, came up short on this season’s deer opener, my 14 year old son, Daniel, managed to shot a 7-point, 150-pound buck in a field near our home. The thing that cracks me up is that Daniel had fallen asleep in his stand and woke up to this buck...