Posts Tagged “Parenting As Child Exploitation”
This past weekend saw the first race of the season for our cross country runners. Here they each are as they approach the end. Xavier and Ciárán had a half mile, Déla’s grade does a mile, with middle school doing a mile and a half. August wasn’t quite prepared for that but he never gave…
Let’s kick things off with a cute picture of Tevye sleeping. These next four pictures are from earlier this week. I think. The kids are waiting for school to start. Or something. Wednesday was the first Cub Scout pack meeting, and August didn’t get to go for the first time since he is now a…
With the September Geek Fuel box about to arrive, let’s take a look at last month’s. After a lengthy battle with the tape keeping the box sealed, August (my son, not named after the month) finally pried open the cardboard container and besides the usual Geek Fuel magazine the first thing he saw was the…
It’s been a couple of weeks – I just realized this post was sitting in my drafts. Better late than never, right? For Déla’s 10th birthday, her last one where she will have a large party, she decided on two things. First was a visit to a newly opened painting studio. Then she wanted a couple…
Following up on my previous post, here is the remainder of my time at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo. Saturday I went by myself. I got some time with games and saw friends I hadn’t seen in a long time. I have no pictures from this day, which is a shame. Briefly, though, I want…
As I mentioned in a previous post, this year’s Penny Arcade Expo was highly enjoyable. Taking the kids as much as I did allowed me to see things in a way that I normally wouldn’t, and allowed them to see just how big and varied video games can be. August has more of an idea…
I have a lot of pictures, but only a few that fit into this category. There will be other posts with other pictures, and these are the few that don’t fit into those posts. First here are Ciárán and Tevye “reading” in the hallway after bath time one evening. Tevye loves climbing onto the couch….
You knew this was coming. Three of the kids had their first day on Monday, but I decided to hold off on the post until today because it was Xavier’s first day of preschool today. Here is Déla getting ready to head out the door to 5th grade. August has been eager to take…
Last month Ciárán had his Cub Scout Day Camp, but it wasn’t an overnight affair. Last week it was August’s turn. Only this time it would be drastically different as he had moved on from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. This wasn’t a 5 day camp from 9 to 3, but would go from Sunday to…
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…