Yesterday evening, as I was heading for bed, our 16 year old son, Taylor, looked up from his computer, guitar, cell-phone, snack and book–he was multi-multi-multi-multi-multi-tasking–and said “Going to bed, already? Oh, that’s right. Summer isn’t universal.” He’s got that right. As of mid-day Wednesday, all of our kids were done [...]
Archive for May, 2007
No School. Kids Rule.
May 31, 2007
Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry
May 30, 2007
Enough with the “farewells!” Yesterday, I attended our daughter’s 8th Grade Farewell ceremony. Last week it was our youngest’s 5th Grade Farewell. And, of course, there was the high school graduation festival which seemed to take up most of the last 18 months. Only our second oldest, moving from high school [...]
How’d All These People Get In My Room?
May 29, 2007
Back in the Rat Pack days, Sinatra or Dean Martin would look out over the audience and bellow “How’d all these people get in my room?” I had a little bit of that feeling on Sunday. We had an open house for our graduate, Alex. Now, his mother and I had a pretty good idea [...]
Cousin Kootie
May 22, 2007
As I’ve mentioned before in the bloggitany, my brothers are all much, much, much older than I. Because of that, I became an uncle when I was about nine years old. That means I was, mostly by accident, the favorite uncle. Now, I’ve never been the “favorite” anything before or since so I cling desperately [...]
Tassel Tussle
May 21, 2007
Sunday was the big day for our oldest son, Alexander. Graduation Day. I say “big day” but that may be pushing it. I think the day before, Saturday, was his big day as he hit about eight graduation parties. That’s a lot of Mr. Pibb and potato chips. Anyway, Sunday morning rolled around and it [...]
