Posts Tagged “Parenting As Child Exploitation”
This year was the first year I was able to take one of the boys to Cub Scout resident camp. It was only a couple of days, but it was ridiculously fun. And it wasn’t the only camp this summer. As I documented earlier I volunteered at this year’s Cub Scout Day Camp which Ciárán…
I showed this video to my daughter a couple of weeks ago. She is into dance – having taken a few different classes before settling into Irish Dance a few years ago. This blew her away. There are two components to this video. The first is the song itself. Listen to the words. Rhythm Nation is…
We had a boy’s name picked out pretty much from the moment Laura found out she was pregnant (again). Girls names this time were more difficult. Everybody thought we were going to have another boy. The punchline is that we had a girl, but the set-up is more interesting than not. From August on down…
Yesterday I had a couple of errands to run in the morning. Ciaran and Dela were at camp so I only had August, Xavier and Tevye. One of those errands involved going to the bread outlet store. Thing is, we don’t get to go there often because it really is pretty out of the way….
Welcome to the “all Ciárán” edition. Sometimes he gets overlooked or passed over, not intentionally, but it happens. This week is not the case. It was his birthday a little earlier this month. He was happy to once again be having his birthday at home instead of while on vacation. A couple of days after…
People ask one of two questions when I tell them we spend a couple of weeks at Yellowstone National Park earlier this summer. One is the inevitable “How was it?” The other question people ask first was a bit surprising. “Did you camp?” And this question was asked by people who know me, people who…
We went on a family road trip vacation to Yellowstone this month. Tevye did not get his regular nap schedule so there were times when he simply fell asleep where he was. The little guy got so tuckered out just being carried around sometimes. Sometimes he was so tired he couldn’t even finish his lunch….
Alright, so it’s actually Saturday, and I haven’t posted anything since we started our vacation, and these pictures aren’t even of us on vacation, but I wanted to get these posted and out of the way so I can start with the vacation pictures proper without this hanging over my head. The day before we left…
No “last day of school” pictures from me. I do pictures on the first day and I figure that’s good enough. Besides, I’m snapping pictures of the kids all the time. At least, I’m trying to. A couple of weeks ago one of the boys in August’s Boy Scout troop was working on his Eagle…
We are a week into summer vacation and I feel as if I have already lost the battle. Maybe those are not the correct words to use, but that is how I feel. Battle-weary. Last Tuesday was the last day, a short day, and it went well enough. The following morning I had to get…