There are 10 entries related to the tag “family”
The Laws of Parental Inevitablity
Principle of Bathtub Defecation If a subject is of the ages of 2 years or less and has within the last thirty minutes previously unharnessed their bowels, the act of putting said small entity into water will cause more defecation into the bathing facilities. The amount of expelled matter is always ...
This too will (never) pass
I'll be honest (wait, I'm always honest when I write here, so saying that almost assumes that I haven't been, so I'll rephrase) I'll be frank: parenting sucks. But not always, at least not in the grand scheme of things and life and what it means to be alive. But ...
Merry Christmas (I think)
I'm trying. I really am. I'm telling myself that it's worth it. The tradition. The pretending (in spite of the knowledge of things you wish you hadn't found out about and now it just looms in the future like a giant cloud that will rain suck throughout the coming year, ...
When your heart and your treasure are at opposite ends your treasure always wins
Its a sad and common story, one that every child believes their parents are beyond. A cliché. And another name in a long list of men who fall. All stories are more complex than the surface of their results. No one is without fault. There are two parties at play, ...
It takes a lifetime to build, and a day to destroy
There we are, in our tiny boxes on a hilliside, putting ourselves into other little boxes. Segmenting our lives. Boxes. Dividers. Shields. Protection. We take what we know of the world, our pasts, our pain, and turn it into the truth. The truth of love. The truth of family. ...
Armstrong Family Circus : The Annual Report
I've started, restarted, typed and retyped, I've mulled and pondered all the various things I could or should say to accurately summarize the year that pasted and I'm left finding it hard to find words. Not because its hard to say, or because I want something perfect, but because I ...
Traveling is a nightmare and other fairly obvious observations
A few years ago dad and I went to New Orleans for the Final Four (to see the Jayhawks lose to Syracuse in a nailbiting finale). We drove all night, talked, drank, ate and I had one of the more rememberable and happy times of my life. ...
When there isn't much to say, say nothing at all
That's what I've been telling myself. Why needlessly ramble on when I have very little to say? Its not because nothing is happening, but its not as if something is happening either. "Something" has the usual ingredients of the mundane life we all ramble in, but the mundane seem to ...
WARNING OF RIGHTS
1. You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Do you understand? 2. Anything you do say may be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand? Yes; I understand, and I understood this at the age of twelve or less. In my family, ...
Coffee addict
I'm a coffee addict. I was too tired to roast last night; for fresh beans this morning. I have a splitting headache now – right through the sides of my head. Abbie has just a few more days till she is in kindergarten. Last night there was an ice ...