Day 220: The Game’s Afoot

Day 220: The Game’s Afoot

Thursday was pretty busy, if not entirely eventful. We all rushed around doing our respective things throughout the day. In the late afternoon, Erin had to go off and teach a puppy class, so I incentivized the kids to help finish the cleaning the house and to...
Day 219: Animal Jokes!

Day 219: Animal Jokes!

Comedy is a strong force in our family, and our kids both really love to laugh and to make others laugh. Henry is heavy on the slapstick and out-there random humor,. Amelia, a little older, loves a good joke.We had dinner at Grandma and Pop Pop’s on Wednesday...
Day 218: The Play’s the Thing

Day 218: The Play’s the Thing

Tuesday morning, we had an exciting delivery. A new vacuum cleaner! That’s right, the old one frankly sucked. Or more accurately, DIDN’T suck.OUCH. Sorry about that. Really no excuse for a pun of that caliber, but sometimes I can’t help myself. So,...
Day 217: New Threads

Day 217: New Threads

Monday was really a Monday. I was dragging, and even Henry woke up pretty cranky. But, we muddled through the morning and tried to get some momentum going.It was a fairly busy day, by Monday standards. Not helped by the fact that it was a beautiful fall day…the...
Day 216: Waffles and Defeat

Day 216: Waffles and Defeat

I’ll open by noting that the “defeat” referred to in the headline isn’t personal or specific to any of in the family. It refers to pathetic excuse for a performance my football team displayed against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday...
Day 215: They Call It Puppy Love

Day 215: They Call It Puppy Love

It’s been a busy, crazy, unpredictable year. We’ve been dealing with the challenges of maintaining sanity and staying above water through, as the blog’s title implies, parenting, productivity and quarantine. We learned about Henry’s autism...