Posts Tagged “Parenting As Child Exploitation”
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an installment, but if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know why (and have seen the pictures that I’ve posted). So here we are with the last full week of summer and plenty of pictures. It’s going to be a long one, so strap in and get comfortable.
This past weekend the Nordic Heritage Museum held is Viking Days festival. A couple of food booths, plenty of crafts and live music. Initially I hadn’t planned on going, but Sunday rolled around and I was looking for something to do with the kids. While Laura stayed home to get some of her prep work…
Am I making this post out of some sort of sense of obligation? Maybe. I think the significance of this “event” in our vacation is such it does warrant special mention. So here it is. The blog post about Cave Hill. One of the things Laura wanted to do in Ireland was visit Cave Hill…
After a long day’s journey around the Inishowen Peninsula we were eager to pull into Buncrana and take it easy. We stayed at the Tullarven Mill, just a couple minutes away from the main streets of town. When looking for a place to stay, we had a short list of needs, and this place met…
Some of what Laura and I had wanted to see was the old sites, those ancient ruins that were beyond the ancient monasteries or whatever. There’s plenty of prehistoric locations and artifacts in Ireland, and this day we traveled south a bit to see some. On the way we stopped at Coleraine to see Mount Sandel,…
Laura put Xavier down. Within a couple of minutes he is screaming. For mom. I go up to see if I can comfort him and get him to quiet down and go to sleep. As soon as I go in there, he’s quiet. He’s ignoring me. I crawl into the bed. He looks over at…
So much has happened on our trip, it’s hard to put it all down cohesively and in a timely manner. Such as it is when visiting family. Almost every day we’re off doing something, driving to one place or another, visiting some ancient ruin or some location with a significant historical importance. Part of this…
Of all the kids, Ciárán was the one who didn’t want to go. He’s rather contrary by nature and doesn’t necessarily like to step outside of his comfort zone. One of the other major reasons he didn’t want to go was his birthday would occur while away on vacation. He was afraid we wouldn’t be…
It’s over. It’s Monday morning as I write this. Ciárán’s head injury happened late Saturday afternoon. We had put an adhesive bandage on his head in the hopes that it would help to prevent the wound from opening up overnight. It appears to have worked. It was a small wound in the first place, thankfully….