maddie-ism

maddie: where you going daddy? me: where do i always go in the morning? maddie: are you going to work? me: yep maddie: i don’t want you to go to work. me: i know. i don’t want to either. but i have to go to work so i can buy you clothes, toys and stuff....

more weekend please

i hate it when the weekend goes by too fast. it seems like it was just friday. i hate being busy on the weekend too. thanks to jim and kaylin we now have 2 less bougainvillea stumps and we almost removed the giant 3’ in diameter bird of paradise. i have blisters...

the shins

and i’m not talking about the group. my shins hurt. i think i may have shin splints. so i didn’t run tonight. i think my doctor may forgive me. tomorrow is going to be a rough one. meeting with a client to discuss billing issues. i hate that stuff. weekend...

smirk

weird night. cops in the condo complex. 3 cars and a k-9 unit. then i come home from basketball to find out that we have a sleep walker. that’s right. maddie apparently got out of bed, picked up the rug and tried to take it into bed with her. apparently she...

mighty

and then there were 8. so we got the 44 gallon aquarium setup, thanks to jim koopmans. trying to cycle the bad boy. nothing really in it, except 8 goldfish. i’m trying to get the poop levels up. however they keep dying. we started with 11 on sunday. woke up to...

tired

i can’t even explain to you how mentally tired i am of temper tantrums. g. you got me on this one? that’s all i got. she’s cute and all, but can you say stubborn? willful? question of the day: what is your favorite breakfast...

grounded

everyday is an opportunity to see what god will reveal to you. saturday heather, kenzie and i met joan and david. two awesome individuals from the hillside house. i was able to feed david his huge chocolate drink from starbucks while getting to know them. i could have...

atoms

auntie had her open house tonight. it was nice to get out and throw back some pizza and home made treats from the bake sale. they had the nerds from the physics department in full force doing some cool things for the kids. dry ice, electricity and centripital force....

shoes

maddie-isms: tonight we were driving down carrillo street past the fire house. maddie: mommy maddie: mommy maddie: mommy heather: yes. maddie: did you see the firetrucks? heather: uh. no sweatheart. i didn’t. pause. pause. pause. maddie: mommy, maybe you should...

for kenny

kenny wanted some proof that pete was popping his pink polo with the madras. here you go. heather and i turned the tv off tonight and just talked. it was great. we need to do that more often. we discussed the fact that i went to the internist today and although my...