The girls hate-love my puns. I’ll frequently get the “that was funny, but still terrible, so we’re poking you anyway.” Of course, as my friends and family can attest, that’s pretty much the reaction I’m aiming for. I want them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My hands can get pretty cold, especially my right when I’m on the computer a lot (the curse of the mouse hand!), but the girls’ hands are frickin’ ICE. Probably wouldn’t even show up on thermal scans. I blame it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yep, every time Arwyn went down either the steep slope or even the medium one, the entire area heard nothing but “Oh, gosh! Oh, gosh! AHHHHHH!” and the she’d flop down on her back and lay there at the bottom[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I remember a couple of snow days when I was a kid, but there had to be like a foot of snow before that happen. Six inches? Pft, get your butts to class. There was only once (in high school)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, so as we head into our first snowpocalypse of 2024, some people are worried about the roads, some are worried about supplies, some… are just wondering why there’s not already more on the ground. Eight inches? Bring it! Says[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We all know that it’s the same thing with work: Vacations are never long enough. Time off passes in a blink and we’re back to reality, though I think that the experience is worse for kids because they don’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just to be clear, the girls are terrible at “sneak” attacks, and Tim was already awake, so their advantage was short-lived before the, uh… “tactical withdrawal” began. You know, like Monty Python versus the white rabbit sort of thing which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the twelfth day of Christmas, I gave everyone puns! Which is also what I gave on the other days of Christmas. Lots of puns! All the puns! I’m so very giving, aren’t I? And not just with puns, either;[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn desperately wants to live in a winter wonderland, but she and I have very different opinions on what constitutes “wonderland.” I swear that we used to get a lot more snow, a lot earlier in the year when I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Herd of cats? Of course, I’ve heard of cats! And a group of them is called a clowder. A group of kids should be called “a chaos,” but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that they had fun[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…