It is very common to have hard conversations with your children. And I’m not talking about the birds and the bees (although when we play I spy out the window we see both). I’m talking about conversations that are hard to understand or not start laughing in the middle of. Here are some of my recent favorites…

Boring

• Our son (faintly from upstairs this morning) – “Daddy…. Daddy…”
• Me (calling up the stairs) – “What is it….?”
• “I’m bored….”
• “What do you mean?”
• “There’s nothing to do!”
• “Well why don’t you come down here with us?”
• “What are you guys doing?”
• “Oh, nothing. We’re boring people. But you can come be bored with us!”
• “What would I do?”
• “Nothing. Come be bored with us” (In reality we were getting breakfast ready and readying books)
• “No thanks.”
• “I thought you were bored?”
• “No, there’s lot’s of things to do, I just can’t decide what.”

Mission accomplished

Public decency

• (Son drops pants in public)
• Me – “Pull your pants up!”
• Son – “Why?”
• “We don’t show our butts in public”
• “But why”
• “It’s not polite”
• (Giggling) “Butt, butt, butt, butt.”
• “Stop saying that word!”
• (grabs his butt while trying to evade me) “Butt butt butt”
• “Pull. Your. Pants. UP!”

Can’t hear trouble

• (Daughter trying to take something of her brother’s) “Give it to me!”
• Me (walking in) – “You can’t take things someone else is using.”
• “Go out”
• “You want me to leave just because you got in trouble?”
• “Yes. Goout Goout Goout gooutgooutgooutgooutgooutgoutGOOUTGOOUT”
• “I’m not going to leave just because you got in trouble”
• “DADDY! GO OUT NOOOOW!”

What’s the funniest thing you’ve heard from your child?

On the topic of things that don’t happen as often when you have kids is date night. Happily enough, that was tonight. I enjoyed watching a movie with my captain marvel.

Cheers,

-SF

It’s easier for someone in the science/technology world to think they can do it all, to understand it all. But while it is easy to come up with topics and write for a while, eventually the creativity falls away. This is what we can call “writer’s block”, only that’s a generous title since I’m far from a writer, and exhausting one’s creativity is much more than just a “block” of the creative bent in your soul.

So what’s the answer? Give up?

Nay!

Press forward and keep writing!

Cheers

-SF

Just a quick note to share how the weekend went. After our son claimed he felt sick and wanted to watch shows all day, he proceeded to go down hill. First he fell asleep in his chair in the middle of the morning. Then he woke up with a fever. That’s when daddy says “Ok, you can lie on the couch downstairs and rest.”

That night his sister starts acting sick with a lack of appetite and needing to go to bed early. By the morning, she has thrown up and spiked a fever as well. Just like that the weekend went from having plans to resting on the couch and taking care of kids. A few loads of laundry and some runs to the grocery store later, the kids are back on the upswing. And now we wait to see if the petri dish that is a house with little kids claims any more victims.

Cheers,

-SF

It’s hard to believe but we’re now almost 4 weeks into blogging. As I mentioned, this blog has two purposes, to develop my writing and prove that anyone can blog. Now before anyone gets upset at that last statement, please note that I didn’t say blog well or gain 1000 followers. But today’s society has made anyone capable of putting our their thoughts and feelings for the internet to join in on. And for those who don’t have time to read, you can get someone to read it for you (it’s called a podcast).

The past few weeks have been a learning experience for me. I’ve enjoyed the writing and taking the time to put thoughts on paper (er… web pages?). But the most interesting thing for me was making connections between my kids and life, turning observations about them, into observations about life. I hope you have enjoyed it as well.

Cheers,

-SF

I love you… are you still reading my blog?

• I disciplined them for breaking a rule (such as no hitting their sibling)
• I didn’t read them the book they wanted.
• I DID read them the book they wanted.
• “I’m not reaaaaaaady to sleep.” (Said while yawning)
• They don’t want to be in time out.
• They don’t want to go outside.
• They DO want to go outside.
• It wasn’t the right color of hair barrette.
• Mommy wasn’t home.
• Daddy WAS home.
• [insert random stuffed animal] is lost.
• They wanted to be alone while they changed.
• [30 seconds later] I left while they changed.
• That yogurt was yucky.
• Daddy is trying to sleep.