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We arrived at my brother’s house at midnight tonight, which in your time is actually last night. I often choose to drive in the wee hours if I’m solo parenting the kids for a trip. They fall asleep in the car and usually transfer pretty easily when we arrive at our destination, meaning there is […]

We visited my parents’ new home today ( they’re blogging about it here), to see how things were coming along. It’s due to be ready in a few weeks, and so we wanted to see some of the “behind the scene” stuff. What we discovered when we got there touched my heart more than I […]

I’m in charge of the house, and by default, in charge of the family. I didn’t ask to be in charge, nor do I enjoy being in charge. But my kids are, well, kids, so they’re not mature enough to be in charge, and my wife works 60-80 hours a week, so she doesn’t have […]

Last week I talked about heading to the beach for a few days with my big family. We did it and it was a success. We all have intense sun hangovers and tired muscles to show for it. At any given moment there were multiple games happening on different areas of the […]

About six months ago my husband and I decided it was time to add a pool to our backyard. We live in Arizona so outside activities are limited during the summer when it’s 115 degrees in the shade! Our twins are just shy of four years old so they are not quite ready for museums […]

When you are the parent of twins you experience some benefits of having two the same age as well as some drawbacks. I won’t get into how traumatic my girls early arrival was and how having two infants was more stress than I could have ever imagined, so maybe another time. What I’ve noticed, though, […]

My dad traveled a lot when I was a child. He brought things home with him. For my mom, it was china cups. For my sister, spoons. For me, most often, vehicles.
He brought me cars and trucks, little ones, Matchbox. Because he traveled in western Canada, they often were the original English ones.
Once he brought […]

Working Mom and I are expecting our second baby girl in November! By New Year’s Eve, I’ll be a stay-at-home dad to two girls under 3.
I’m so screwed.
I feel completely competent as a stay-at-home parent, sometimes. (Some rare and brief times, but some times all the same.) Last Wednesday, for example, I was lifting a […]

Summer is in full swing in our neck of the woods.  The weather has been great, not to hot, not too cold.  We have had trips to the beach, a trip to the water park, a trip to a state park for some camping and fishing.  And yet, even with all this wonderful weather going […]

I went to the family reunion somewhat grudgingly.
A distant cousin had been doing research and discovered a pool of people that shared her great-great-grandfather. She planned a trip from Colorado to Michigan to Pennsylvania to Connecticut. She wondered if the Michigan people could meet.
So a bunch of people with Kies somewhere in their family tree […]