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My kids were not expecting to enjoy Home as much as they did. My opinion doesn’t really matter much, I’m not the target audience, they are. Ranging in ages from 5 to 12 there are four kids who enjoyed the film and would even watch it again, which is saying something considering they all reluctantly…
Last week at Boy Scout camp I missed the staff’s production of Frozen while I was back home for a couple of days. August apparently loved it, as it was a very lose adaptation that freely borrowed from other movies and storytelling elements. Kind of a half-parody/half-homage to the film. I heard all about it…
Another busy week with a lot going on. We start off while still on vacation in Winthrop. Only our van’s battery died because we accidentally left the cooler plugged in. Whoops. We waited and waited and waited for AAA to come give us a jump start. And waited and waited. We had planned to go…
Netflix sent along a box of goodies and a screener of the first episode of “Dinotrux” in order for me to write about the upcoming series. That’s my disclosure, and this isn’t a review, so much as a preview of the series, and I’m sure the “powers that be” are not going to be happy…
Saturday we came home from vacation and began unpacking. Part of reason we came back was to get ready for myself and August to leave for Boy Scout camp the next morning, but the primary reason for arriving home at the time we did was to take Déla to her birthday surprise. When it was announced…
We are currently out of town on vacation. I’ll be posting something about both our summer vacations later on, but here are some of the hilghlights from this week. And yes, a couple off these were posted to Facebook, so they may be familiar to a couple of you. First off we have my birthday…
As I type this we are on vacation. I should be relaxing, but I had this idea I wanted to put down before I forgot. Newer parents might be afraid to take their young children on a vacation but it can be done. Our first order of business is where to stay. And that’s important…
1984’s Ocean Rain was one of the first “alternative” albums that I purchased. This was back in 1986 when I was really discovering music that wasn’t on mainstream radio. The album set a sonic atmosphere that I loved and I began exploring other releases from the band. One could describe much of the band’s sound as…
Happy birthday to me! This post isn’t about me though. August and Déla got new bikes. Here they are trying them out. Sometime over the last week Ciárán’s tube and connector toy got broken out. Things were built. Some quite large. Tuesday August got to ride on a Navy ship as it maneuvered from Everett to…
This year it was Ciárán’s turn to attend Cub Scout Day Camp. With August already having crossed over into Boy Scouts he couldn’t participate – he will be participating in his own adventures. Also this year is the first time I helped out. After registering and checking in the activity was within our group to…