I found information today via my friend Genuine about why exercise may not be so good for my health. With that I say that I am done 5 or 6 pounds this week due to a renewed dedication to fitness in our house. But, I will attempt to do Genuine one better by mentioning this: [...]

Avery has gotten a new found love for beating her parents. We always thought that she would be covered in bruises considering that falls and tumbles she has taken over the past few months. Probably not though, as it seems Avery will eventually give Colleen a black eye and a number of cracked teeth from [...]

Yesterday there were reports that a baby in the Kansas City area was able to recite an entire work of Shakespeare from memory. As it turns out, this whole fiasco was a hoax conjured up by the child’s parents in order to get a attempt to receive all sorts of financial rewards. Turns out that [...]

Stuffed animals, that is. We have a dog that sings, talks, and whatever else it does. Only problem is that there is no true off button. Sure, there is a place that says “off” and the dog says bye-bye, but the moment you touch it, on he comes, singing and talking. Touching the toy has [...]

I always wondered why I was always so silly to take my brother-in-law up on the bets to eat an entire piece of food (usually much too large to fill a normal human’s mouth). Tonight that was answered. We are taught this trick at a young age. Avery was eating a piece of graham cracker [...]

Well, over the past few weeks, I have been spending a lot of time over at Timed Finals. What is Timed Finals? A blog edited and written by yours truly on swimming. Tips, news, informative articles, etc. Since Avery was born, this blog here has focused specifically on being a parenting, and although many of [...]

On the topic of chicken… Avery’s new hobby is to raise her arms in the air and show everyone what she is holding. Tonight when she did so, she had a piece of chicken stuck on her middle finger. I asked if Avery had chicken fingers, but now that I think about it – she [...]

I cooked chicken tonight for Avery for dinner, and it was a hit. She had never eaten a real, cooked, not pureed chicken breast before. The only issue? It was a darn good chicken breast and neither Colleen or I could keep our hands off of Avery’s food. You would not have seen that happen [...]

I got my grade today in my most recent graduate school class. What was it? An "A"… no way. Why would I think about doing that, despite the fact that I have run the table so far with "A’s". Well, to be honest I didn’t care. Not in the formal sense of "I didn’t care", [...]