jump to navigation

"Murphy was an optimist!"

From the mouths of babes August 3, 2008 11:39 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes , add a comment

Cathy, eating a bowl of ice cream topped with blue berries and peaches: *Ach chuu!*
Cathy:"Oops. hahahaha"

add a comment

Tonight’s Stalls August 3, 2008 9:57 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Evan, Family, Noah, Of Being Dad, Sarah, Tommy , 1 comment so far

Tonight we began enforcing school time bedtimes to get everyone acclimated to the changes coming next week. Tommy has a "get up" time rather than a bedtime; he’s really on his own. Sarah will probably sneak Breaking Dawn in bed. Noah pulled a complete evasion by shooting off to a friend’s house for a sleep over. Amy fought hers hard jumping from bed to bed, having tantrums, refusals, screaming, and tearing up her sisters room decor. Evan pulled the "I gotta poop" stall and enhanced it with the "I need a bandaid" the moment he hit the crib. He turned on alligator tears for added affect but only scored about a 60 second delay with that one as opposed to a 20 minute delay from potential poo.

1 comment so far

From the mouths of babes August 3, 2008 9:24 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes , add a comment

Evan, pound pound pound: "Mooom MIE! You don’t yeeET?"
Evan: "Moommie!"
Evan:"You done yet?"
Evan:"You done yet?&qout;
Evan:"Mommy. You done yet?"

I can only assume she was in the bathroom.

Evan:"Daddy. Amy hit my shirt!"
Dad:"She what?"
Evan:"Amy hit my shirt. Go like this!"

add a comment

Call the writers, my script has blank pages! August 3, 2008 8:05 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, Of Being Dad , add a comment

Being "only human" is perhaps the hardest part of being human. We are prone to error. We are a reactive bunch despite intellectually knowing that we would be better served as a responsive organism. Stress and chaos induces triggers to ingrained habits at the most inopportune times. This is dadhood…3 steps forward, 4 steps back. The noise rose, multiple bodies tried to defy the laws of physics and occupy the same space at the same time, a pet yelped, and I brought shock and awe when I should have used please and thank you. Way to go daddy-o. Calgon take me away! (Someone should make a scotch and name it Calgon.)

add a comment

That clean feeling..briefly August 3, 2008 9:53 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Dharma, Molly, Pets , 2comments

This morning I arose to a quiet household, took a meditative scalding hot bath, and was feeling exceeding clean right up until that moment I stepped out of the bathroom to discover…dog vomit.

2comments