I made a resolution this year to try and suppress my natural Grinchy tendencies. Now that I have two young boys around, Christmas is going to start to become less about me being grumpy and self-indulgently miserable and more about them being smitten with Christmas magic.
They’re both still too young to properly appreciate Christmas, but I’m [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Great Lake Swimmers’
The ice is thick and my feet are clamped, I know how my cards are stacked
I’m just pulling on a line and sometimes it pulls on me
Boy Z has been swimming since he was about four months old. By swimming I don’t mean the 200m butterfly, of course, but various water baby classes both in Oxford and here in Adelaide. They allow the kids to get comfortable in the water and teach basic safety, something that we felt was important for [...]
Just so the sun don’t hurt you when you cry
Happy Birthday, Baby Z! No, Boy Z.
Happy Birthday, my pea. My chicken. My monkey.
Happy Birthday, Z-Man. My Super Z.
Happy Birthday, Zachary P. Quack.
It’s been a year, a year beyond my wildest dreams. I remember clearly, and hope I always do, the days leading up to your arrival in the world. I remember the seemingly endless [...]
Don’t go gettin’ no ideas from the neighbors’ Weimaraner
“Not on your arm
Not on your leg
Not in the toast
Not in the eggs
Not on the carpet
Nor the linoleum
Just how’d your little brother get it smeared all over him…”
-Over the Rhine – “The Poopsmith Song”
The strains of preparing for a trans-continental move must be getting to me because I’m finding the blogging juices have run bone [...]
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Since becoming a parent, actually since I knew I was to become a parent, I’ve been planning my strategy to avoid spending the next several years listening to The Wiggles. In addition to exposing my baby boy to my favorites, I’ve been checking out the occasional “kids” compilation by “adult” artists. Last autumn, my partner [...]
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