Reality Me

Category: Daily Life

Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.

  • From the mouths of babes

    Noah: "Dad, have you ever heard that song ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’?"

  • The sky is crying

    The rain is beautiful today. I love its pitter patter. Rain brings a calm.

  • Allowable Distractions

    I think it is time to glaze a cake.

    Update: Cake glazed. Perhaps I made my glaze (a vanilla glaze) too runny and I guess I didn’t have to use all the glaze but it looks good.

  • From the mouths of babes

    Amy: "Dad, when you went to school did you tell everyone your name was Dad?"

  • Adventures with Amy

    Amy Wheee

  • Crisp

    It feels and smells so good outside! I love this time of year.

  • From the mouths of babes

    Dad: "Noah. I want you to close the bathroom door all the way [so that Evan can’t get in] then brush your teeth."
    Noah: proceeds to start brushing his teeth.
    Dad: "Noah, what did I say?"
    Noah: "Close the door then brush my teeth."
    Noah: Proceeds to start to brush teeth.
    Dad: "What are you doing?!"
    Noah: "Oh! Close the door."
    Noah: Pushes door almost shut.
    Dad: Pushes door open with finger.
    Dad:"All the way!"

    I live with the Marx Brothers.

  • You know you are getting old…

    …when you turn down your birthday present for sleep.

  • From the mouths of babes

    Everyone overslept this morning. The elementary school bell rings at 7:45.

    Dad: "Noah! Wake up! It’s 7:35."
    Noah, 10, bolting upright, very staccato: "Holy crap!"
    Dad, wide eyed and thinking to himself: I’ll let that one slide on this occasion.

    It was very surprising because Noah watches his tongue well around adults.

  • Returning to normalcy?

    Ok. Normalcy and "our life" typically are not used in the same sentence. What has returned to our life is the daily in and out of getting people to and fro. That’s right! Fall break is over and the kids are back in school and in karate and in therapy and in student council and in art club and in scouts and in this and in that. And mom and dad are in the taxi service.

  • Action!

    Hosting is in good shape so the websites are up, email is working, and our microphones (cells) should not have any technical difficulties until late Monday.

  • Camera!

    Looks like we should have an Internet connection through the weekend. At 12:01am Monday or 12:01am Tuesday it might spudder out again unless I feed the monster more lettuce.

  • Lights!

    Ok. Looks like the power is not going to get cut off! Now trying to save phone and Internet – my lifeblood.

  • When it rains…

    Our house floods of course. I noticed this morning that we had a little water get into the downstairs at the non-distructive side of the trench. I knew that I had more digging to do to get back to the appropriate depth. Damage was minimal. Most water hugged the wall and exited through the garage

  • Moving on…

    Yes. The first step is acceptance. I’m poor. So is most of the rest of the world. Life goes on. (sorta)

    In the life goes on category, I decided not to cancel our camping trip this weekend. Already this year Noah has missed several camping trips that he deserved to attend. My problems should not impact the children’s normalcy. So, this weekend Noah, Tommy and I will join the boy scouts for some wilderness camping at Camp Pellissippi.

    Today, Noah and I will be selling popcorn to raise money for the boy scouts outside of Butler & Bailey in Rocky Hill from 4pm to 6pm. If you are nearby, say hi. If you want, buy some popcorn. It is the best popcorn in the world!