"Murphy was an optimist!"
You know that scene in Caddy Shack? September 9, 2008 7:41 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, Of Being DadTime to reenact the pool scene from Caddy Shack, only we don’t have any Baby Ruth’s in this house. Where did I leave my Hazmat suit?
Update: They called me upstairs to deal with it. I donned my rubber gloves and found two small children still in the tub. Evan was holding a brown ball of the stuff! He gave it to me then Amy grabbed a fibrous sheet of it. Yuck! Evan had quite the blowout. Amy tossed her sheet toward me and I jumped back 3 feet as they laughed and swished around in the murky water. It was all in the bath water. I was repulsed. Amy and Evan laughed and swam. Cathy laughed so hard she started to tear. Then she explained that Evan took the card board tube from an expended roll of paper towels in with him. Belated April Fools on me! Now that was funny.
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What is parenting? September 9, 2008 6:35 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Evan, Family, Noah, Of Being DadParenting is not getting upset about spending $29 on what you thought was a child-friendly dinner only to have 3 children decide not to eat.
Update: A fourth child stayed at a friend’s house because their Chinese food sounded better than our dinner. The fifth child had cheese cake because he’s away at the university.
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NooNnonoononooooo! September 9, 2008 12:13 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily LifeAfter a looong period without them, dizzy spells from stress and anxiety (or maybe the lingering cold? poor diet? dehydration from the weekend?) are threatening again.
Update: Yuck. I hate Meclizine.
Update: The video Cathy tried to put in comment:
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2/3s of the way there! September 9, 2008 11:34 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Blog, Communications, Economy, Publishing, Technology, Touchy SubjectsI feel like a presidential candidate asking for 20 people to donate $5 each to send Cathy and Sarah to BlogHer Nashville. Some amazingly wonderful people have contributed to sending Cathy and Sarah to BlogHer! Sarah is thrilled! Cathy is so jazzed that she wants to be a panelist at BlogHer 2009. So if you are attending a BlogHer event, be sure to whisper loudly within earshot of the organizers, "Gee, I sure wish Cathy McCaughan of Domestic Psychology were speaking." Sarah and Cathy are going to come back with their blogs on fire like never before! We are a 7 person household and 6 of those people have blogs! (that doesn’t include Facebook and MySpace etc.) We are "The Family That Blogs Together." With 5 children in 5 different schools this year, such a trip would not be feasible without your help. Thank you!
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Odds are your wife is doing him September 9, 2008 9:18 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Sex, Touchy SubjectsIf you believe a study published in the Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy in 2002, flip a coin to see if your wife is cheating on you. Heads you’re okay. Tails then someone’s getting some..er, tail that is.
55 percent of married women engage in extramarital sex at some time during their relationship…90 percent of them didn’t feel guilty about doing it—they felt entitled to do it [Source, Men.Style.Com, THE NEW INFIDELITY]
On the positive side, a third of all these marriages survive! The study also said 60 percent of men cheat (maybe we aren’t supposed to be monogamous). So, getting quick with the math*, doesn’t that mean 5 percent of the women are doing 2 men? It seems to me that with a little open communication, and perhaps open relationships, half the married population would be a lot happier. Alrightee then. Now where did I put that keystroke logger?
*Yes the math is wrong. It presupposes that married women only cheat with married men and vice-versa. But it was funny!
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