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Our eldest son is going to kindergarten this fall and that's the earliest you can play actual baseball. So it's been tee-ball time for...

It's summer and we're back from our annual pilgrimage to see my wife's sister's family on the Last Frontier. I've written in the past...

Introduced through work (I believe), my wife is a big fan of Clifton Strengths, previously called 'Strength Finder.' After taking an...

Our kids have always had friends, of one kind or another, though until recently they've mostly been through friends of my wife and I, or...

I rarely, if at all, write about my sports fandom, because I can't imagine it matters to anyone else, especially when using this longer...

Last week we started potty training our #2 child. It was probably the longest week of my life. This is one of those parts of parenting...

About two weeks ago I was working on a new post. Wix (the site hosting this), when going to upload a picture said I was over my limit for...

Less than two years ago I wrote about my first couple weeks home alone, during the week when my wife was back at work, with two kids. I...

Last week it took a few extra days and 15 ballots to elect a Speaker of the House for the new Congress, something unusual but not...

Our #2 child is now two years old and he's, up to this point, not been a talker. He came out of the womb sucking on two fingers on his...

I don't think we, as parents, want to have a favorite kid. Nothing good comes of that. Ideally we resist the urge and treat our offspring...

My last post bemoaned a weird stage where we were ready for a baby but she wasn't ready to join us yet. Well, to our relief, our little...

Kid #1 was born a day or two after his due date. Kid #2 was unexpectedly early, by more than a week. So with the expected arrival of kid...

The aspect of parenting I seem to be struggling with most these days is setting a good example. This isn't across the board as I, for the...

The jokes are funny because they're true. A first child gets all the attention to his/her self. First-time parents tend to be much better...

Abortion is the topic of the day as a new Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (i.e. 'Dobbs') overruled...

About a week ago we got back from our (usually) annual trip to Alaska. As I've said before we have family near Homer, AK on the Kenai...

I touched on this briefly in discussing my week without a computer, but it's such a nice part of our boys at their current ages and I...

A big thing right now, when either or both boys are awake, is a constant stream of reading requests. The three-year-old asks verbally,...

Our three year old loves books. He also loves trucks, ever since before he could talk. So naturally we have quite a few books featuring...