My beloved Giants! Roger v8.2 watched every snap.

One of the great joys I have found is hosting large gatherings. Thanksgiving is now defaulted to my house. We alternate Christmas Eve with other family members. New Years Eve has found its way to our place also. But the best party was the Christmas party Maureen and I had for our friends in December. Two years in a row it was becoming an ( Read more... )

New filtering software at work blocks LJ and I can't update as easily as I was could. Combined with an uptick at work and the after work responsibilities that have fallen into my lap these day and I find that my journal suffers. But...this digital record of moments of time in my life is important and I need to find the time to jot down my ( Read more... )

I’ve got a vacation coming up in August and I’m finalizing plans for the family. Since we are still saving for Disney in April and I have the new furnace to deal with we felt that a couple of short trips would be a better use of our time ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I was putting a puzzle together with the kids when Roger v7.6 reached over and picked something off my game bookshelf. He held it up and said, “What I want to know is; when are you going to teach me how to play this?” What he was holding was the small box “Awful Green Things from Outer Space”. I thought for a second and replied ( Read more... )

The first season of “The Avengers” from the Disney Channel is now on Netflix streaming. Katie has a dance camp this week and when Maureen leaves after dinner to get her Roger v7.6 and I have been watching a few episodes a night. It’s been a blast ( Read more... )

I took the kids to Friendly’s on their last day of school. The restaurant is having some contest where the kids get to design a Sunday for a trip to Florida. Roger v7.6 is the eternal optimist was already planning his trip while working on his picture. Katie is a work horse and set herself to the task at hand ( Read more... )

A few yeas ago I had a problem with my car and I took it to Ford and it cost me over a hundred bucks…to change a fuse. Yesterday I was trying to leave work when I turn on my car and couldn’t get it out of park. It took a while but eventually I turned off the engine, was able to put the car in neutral then started the car and I could shift into ( Read more... )

Roger v7.4 and Katie do something that I never taught them to do but they picked it up from one another; when they see something they want they ask Santa for it out loud. I notice it most when they are watching TV and a commercial comes on and one of them will go “I want that Santa”, and then continue watching in silence. Sometimes when we are in ( Read more... )

There is a talent show at my kid’s school next week and Roger v7.4 signed up…to tell jokes. The kid wants to be a stand up comedian. Maureen told me about it and my first instinct was to dissuade him and failing that not go. This, of course, is the wrong thing and it was met with fiery brimstone from my wife. She intimated that the boy is only ( Read more... )