Well, in my previous post 5 months ago I called the election for Trump, and here we are having our very own Brexit moment. I expect that the media will spend a lot of coverage time today on the question 'how could this have possibly happened?' Allow me to explain in a sentence ( Read more... )

I often have the urge to post about current events, but usually don't get around to it for one reason or another. Maybe this time I will actually post this ( Read more... )

The inevitable has happened. This morning I rushed through helping Duncan (who is really not a morning person) dress. An hour later we were in the car, just starting off to school when Duncan was finally the first to notice that I'd put him in his brothers size 3T trousers. The reason he noticed was that Martin's trousers were worn through at ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the second ever dance competition for Margaret and Duncan. (Their first was Yankee Classic last June.) I was surprised that they were actually dancing at 5pm instead of I-have-to-get-up-WHEN o'clock in the morning. I would have been more delighted about that had in not meant driving through the snowstorm both was. The way out was ( Read more... )

The winter holiday fun so far ( Read more... )

As a grown-up I'm not that thrilled with Santa, but I'm also really big on not denying the kids things without a good reason, plus this picture does a good job of capturing Margaret's currently "interesting" smile.

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It wasn't a simple case of just neglecting my blog for over six months. I filed for divorce in late April of this year. For reasons that should be obvious if you think about it, I thought it unwise to write about what was going on. I doubt that even friends-locked posts would be wise as I am dubious about how secure they would be, so I said ( Read more... )

This week's memo from Margaret's school mentioned that a child in the school had socially transitioned from female to male, and talked about how we should talk about this to our kids. This may have been more timely if it had come back in October. You see the kid is in Margaret's class, the transition happened at the beginning of the school year, ( Read more... )

We have a workbook pages for cash program at out house. Margaret and Duncan have both been taking advantage of this and spending their cash on lego and other toys at Barnes and Noble every Saturday, but we didn't have any workbooks for Martin. The Saturday before last he found a Kermit the Frog beanie baby and dragged it around the store the ( Read more... )

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