Posted in Family on Oct 1st, 2008
Normally by the middle of September we are settled into our fall schedules. School, homework and all the extracurricular activities such as soccer and football games are on auto-pilot as we go from one activity to another. Our normal schedule got a jolt a few weeks ago from some health issues. First my son Marcus [...]
Posted in Family on Sep 6th, 2008
The start of the school year is a little disappointing because it signals the end of summer. Soon it will be winter with colder days and rain. The fun and warm memories of the summer will soon fade into dark dreary mornings. Offsetting the disappointment of school starting is the excitement of [...]
Posted in Family on Sep 5th, 2008
The start of school is a sign that summer is over. No more vacations and leisurely days at the pool. Last week I took my son to school as he started first grade. First grade is not as significant an event as the start of Kindergarten but it is still a change. [...]
Posted in Family on Jul 15th, 2008
Last month my son Marcus finished his first season of T-Ball and I finished my first year being an assistant coach. It was a good experience for both of us. For Marcus it was his first season of organized baseball and he did very well as one the top players on the team. [...]
Posted in Family on Jul 14th, 2008
It is the middle of the July and much of the country is experiencing a heat wave. So naturally I would be spending a week vacationing in one of the hottest spots in the country….Palm Springs. It reached a high of 114 degrees last week and on most days around 108-110 degrees. I’m not a [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 20th, 2008
June marks the end of another school year. It is hard to believe a school year has gone by so fast already and we are already into summer. Last week Marcus graduated from Kindergarten. It seemed like yesterday that he started Kindergarten. I have had the unique perspective of seeing Kindergarten up close this year [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 5th, 2008
During the Memorial day weekend we went to our church family camp as we have been doing for the past five years. Both our kids started going when they were less than a year old. In fact Mia was only 3 months old the first time she went to family camp. It was quite a [...]
Posted in Family on May 23rd, 2008
Sometimes I have to be called into “Mom” duties. Probably more so than most Dads since I am always around. This week I had to step in as my wife and daughter were on a girls trip to Disneyland. So I had to chaperone my son’s kindergarten class on a field [...]
Posted in Family on May 16th, 2008
While cutting Marcus’ hair this week we decided to experiment with a new style. So we tried the mohawk or rather a “faux-hawk”. Its not quite a full mohawk.
Marcus really liked it so we let him keep it for a day which turned into 2 days because we got too busy to cut the rest [...]
Posted in Family on Apr 17th, 2008
On a recent Friday afternoon I had 8 kids all under the age of 5 in my house. Only 2 belonged to me. Add in 4 Moms and myself and it was a hectic play date/lunch. It is as chaotic as it sounds. A lot of running, screaming, knocking things over, and some crying. A [...]
