Archive For The “Monk’s Blog” Category
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, and chances are you haven’t, you will have noticed a drop in the frequency of direct parenting related posts. It isn’t for a lack of content. Just this morning Tevye took off his pajamas and underwear to dance – because last summer watching the gymnastics he…
This week’s entry comes courtesy of a Facebook trend I thought was a good idea to turn into a post. Rather than simply have a status update with a list I would flesh it out a little with a sentence or two about each album and why it is included. Here are the directions as…
So we find Tevye’s container of snack, some yogurt covered pretzels, and they are partially eaten. Not even half-eaten, but instead much of the yogurt covering has been nibbled off. These were not the only ones. A few others were to be found the next morning. Seriously. He nibbled the yogurt covering off of the…
“Hey, how was your trip to Boston?” I’m glad you asked. While I have traveled to Boston several times, this is my third time going specifically to see the Mighty Mighty Bosstones during their Hometown Throwdown. I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to go, and by myself, which leaves Laura home with the…
Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. This album, their first, represents pretty much the band’s live set at the time. I have the Vee-Jay album Introducing The Beatles which has many of these songs as well and was an interesting artifact of the time. I do prefer this version, this album,…
Here is the last of my catch-up series for pictures. Hopefully I’ll be back to the normal (mostly) weekly posting schedule for these. So I turned around and these two clowns were like this. Tevye just thought it was the funniest thing ever. Ciaran made himself a triple-decker peanut butter sandwich. That’s three layers of…
Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. Having grown up with the Capitol Records version of this album, Meet The Beatles, which I listened to endlessly growing up (and is the first album I remember listening to) I have a lot of affection for this even though the track listing is different….
Pack meetings have changed format a bit. They start out with a calmer activity to keep the kids from running around making it easier to start the meetings. I like it. One of the pack outings was to the Museum of History and Industry, which we went to last year, but this was Xavier’s first…
It’s been over a month and I have a lot to post so I’m breaking this up into a few chunks, starting with this one. I don’t remember why but I had to go to the school for some reason and ran into Xavier. We decorated our Christmas tree We waited until after Tevye was…
Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. I grew up and came of age with the soundtrack version of this album as released in the United States by Capitol Records, so my familiarity with this as an album is relatively new. I think the first time I listened to A Hard Day’s…