May Day, May Day! Tired, cranky 2-year-old in need of a nap sitting by the maze at the Palace Gardens! Noncranky, perfectly contented 2-year-old taking a ride on the bus — his favorite part of the trip by a country…
Category: Coach Dad
Sightseeing in D.C. with Kid, Preteen, and Teen
Taking pics at the foot of the Jefferson statue. And, three a kid, a preteen, and a teen posing with Eleanor Roosevelt. In her day all three would have been silent children…ahhh the good old days! Snapping pics on the…
Pseudo Live Blogging Volleyball Tournaments
Crafty Daughter’s volleyball team at Penn State for volleyball tournament…Crafty Daughter is third from left, sitting on lion. Her team won the gold medal in the platinum division. Her team was young — most only 10 in a division for…
A 5-Year-Old Boy Needs His Daddy
Kind of wondering if a Dyson could clean up my 5-year-old’s behavior? Struggling today, really struggling with my son. He is in that “knows what he wants to do and Will do whatever he wants to do phase.” I am…
Live Blogging Bedtime
Round these parts we love our jammies so much…we even wear them outside! Considering live blogging bedtime. It would be interesting, no? A sociological experiment? A testament to how ornery my kids are? A glimpse in to my “putting-kids-to-bed” persona.…
Will Blog for Food! or Is Blogging a Job?
Just call me SAHM turned Blogger. I’m not a well-known blogger like JessicaKnows or FireMom. Someday– could I be in the same sentence as these two? Who knows. But, for now… I am a SAHM to three kids. I am…
Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo! or Volleyballs Are Hard!
Today was going so well… Sporty Daughter and Coach Dad left on time for their volleyball tournament. Adventure Boy let me sleep in until 9:30…yay! Tackled the laundry, made lunch, responded to a few e-mails, and cleaned up the kitchen.…
Family Jobs — What Skill Do You Bring To Your Family?
Over at Robyn’sWorldOnline, Robyn posed the question “What Is Your Role in Your Family?” In our family, it goes like this: Mom on the Run — I’m the “ooo, I remember seeing a small post-it note with a number pencilled…
Observations from the Pool Deck…Swim Team
It would seem that on the pool deck or at a sports game, my husband is the one who gets to get all snippy with me about whatever it is that he had planned that I did not do the…
Coach Dad + Mom on the Run = How We Met
Coach Dad and Adevnture Boy after their skiing mis-adventure — will post about this soon. Why, oh, why, do I keep using this dreadful photo of myself… Twas the summer of ’86. Hot as anything in Rockville, MD, just outside…