This morning, Evi and I took the kids to Sky Zone Trampoline Park, where they can jump up and down all they want and I don’t have to yell at them for it. They used to run some kind of special on Sunday mornings where you could bring toddlers for...
One morning last week, Evi made Pillsbury Crescents, which are something like croissants, but with a different name. That’s the only difference I can tell. I imagine that since they don’t use the word ‘croissant’, it must be some cheap imitation, like how they use ‘cheez’ or ‘cheese product’ when...
As I’ve mentioned in past blogs, our family has a…tradition?–yes, I guess it’s a tradition–of going on evening drives with the kids in order to get them to fall asleep. We’ve been getting diminishing returns. Last week we went on one where by the time we pulled back into the...
The first thing I was confronted with this morning–before I even had coffee, for Christ’s sake–was Sasha asking me to “Face Swap”. For those unfamiliar, Face Swap Live is a phone app that will ‘swap’ the faces of two people within the camera frame, along with some other photo trickery....
Today’s the day. I’ve had this picture in my head of what a normal, productive day should look like. The kind of day that, if I followed the same routine every time, would lead me to accomplishing all my goals. I’d get some exercise in, I’d work on my book,...
“Do you have a place in your mind you go to when you need to de-stress and relax?” Evi asked. I thought for a moment. “You mean some imaginary place, like a beach or meadow?” “It doesn’t have to be imaginary,” she replied. “It could be a place you’ve actually...
Last Tuesday, Evi woke up feeling so miserable she asked me to take Norah to her scheduled appointment with the pediatrician. “Park in the back,” my wife said. “I told them Norah hasn’t felt well, so they’re going to come out and give her a Covid test before letting her...
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