I get a lot of comment spam, but man, how do they know me so well? I haven’t been up to much today. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me. Basically nothing seems worth bothering with. I’ve just been hanging out doing nothing. I just don’t have anything to say right now. More or [...]

We recently installed a gate at the bottom of the stairs in our basement to ensure that we did not have to constantly chase Avery as she moved in that direction. All well and good when you remember to actually close the gate… The other morning I came downstairs and sat down with Colleen and [...]

Colleen and I decided to take Avery to the pool today. What else would you do on a Sunday of Memorial Day? We found out that going to the pool was not really a very novel idea. As we moved from the car to the pool, Avery had the kung-fu death grip on Colleen… she [...]

No, I did not drop a bag of shrimp on Avery again, but we did have another incident at our local Costco. It seems that the carts at Costco may not be safe for young children. In the middle of the store during today’s shopping trip to Costco Avery started screaming. Neither of us could [...]

This is the best news that I have heard in a while: A new law would change the fact that wine cannot be shipped out of state, but also the law will also mean Kansans visiting other states can have wine shipped back home. The new law would allow wine tasting at the Kansas state [...]

Ok, so we are a little jealous… for goodness sake they went to Maui. Yeah, I know that we have been there, but it has been nearly a year and a half and Colleen and I are getting that itch for some sand and some sun. But hats off to the Gilberts who not only [...]

What the heck is a “walking school bus?” At first I started thinking about the Flinstones … you know Fred sitting there feet hanging out of the bottom of the school bus run along propelling the bus down the road while traversing traffic, but it seems that my wild imagination was completely off the mark [...]

What is the Da Vinci Code? Apparently it is something important enough that half the world is bickering about it. My good friend Genuine claimed today that he “may be the only person on the planet that has not read the book or seen the movie,” but sorry to say he has told a lie. [...]

For the past few days about 30 minutes to an hour after I have put Avery down to sleep or nap I would hear this faint yelp through the baby monitor. What was it? Luckily, it was nothing that wakened Avery – for she does not fear the boogeyman that sleeps under her crib. Why? [...]

While changing Avery’s diaper this morning I was having a difficult time of keeping her still. I tried giving her an empty water bottle (Penta, of course) and a sock. When I finally started to get the new diaper on and had a chance to look at her, there she was quiet and smiling with [...]