Wherein I summarize this year’s Hallowe’en

And now it’s November.
The family spent the weekend in Ohio catching up with friends. I want to thank Jeanne and family for hosting us as we attempted to close out a quite surreal portion of our lives. I hope that most of the candy wrappers were mine and not my childrens’. 
The kids went as a [...]

Wherein I opine on Baseball

Wandering through the library yesterday, I happened upon Ken Burns’ Baseball series, which I haven’t watched in years. Its (original?) broadcast was one of the signal events of our early married days in Hyde Park, even though I would consider myself a marginal fan of the game, and the Wife not at all. I noticed [...]

“Pardon me, do you have any. . . .”

Usually, the kids are pretty talkative in the car in the morning. Even so, most of our conversations boil down to
“Did you remember X?” “Yes, Daddy.” “Did you remember Y?” “Yes, Daddy.” “Did you remember Z?” [Pause] “AAAAARGH!”
and then we turn the car around.
However, this morning, it was just dark enough so that the girls [...]

Sign of the times

Line from the kids’ school about afterschool programs:
Sewing will happen, but will not begin until late October, after the volleyball season is over.

The First Day of School

Brought the kids to the first day of school this morning, both of them in their jumpers, Oxford shirts, and dark green blazers. This is the first year of a uniform for Daughter #2, and she’s excited to be like her sister. We got there early enough so that there wasn’t a line in front [...]

“And now, the 8 and under 1600 IM.”

The Girls now have two swim meets under their belts this year, and they seem to be doing fine. The first was on Saturday, and it was a purely intramural affair, just to get everyone back into the swing of things. In a great case of “right place, right time,” I got to volunteer to [...]

You’ve got to be carefully taught

It’s hellish to have a chest cold, one of those colds during which you can’t catch your breath when you cough. But this was totally worth it. A month or so ago I gave Daughter #1 one of my cotton handkerchiefs, so that she wouldn’t fill the back of my car with biodegradable waste as she went through [...]