Of all the things I have to deal with in parenting–the temper tantrums, dirty diapers, unflushed toilets, runny noses–the thing that irritates me is messy faces. Child Harbat never had too much of an issue with this and learned to…
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Lemonade for Sale
Entrepreneurship: it’s the spirit of America and a word you need to sound out as you write it to be sure it’s spelled right. And even then it doesn’t sound right. What does it mean in our household? It means…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: CH, entrepreneurship, lemonade stand, limeade, parenting, price, profit
Life’s Little Defeats
It’s not the catastrophic failures that wear you down–those you mark as unique and unrepeatable. No, it’s the breaking of a bridge by the stamping of ten thousand small feet. At the end of the day when you’ve rejected your…
Hi-YAH!
Child Harbat is now officially a Tang Soo Do white belt. What’s Tang Soo Do? Click here for a whole lot of information and back story about it but here’s one teaser: the founder of Tang Soo Do walked from…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: child harbat, kicks, korea, martial arts, parenting, punches, tang soo do
Vroom Vroom!
Following up on vintage Tonka trucks, I finally released the last hidden truck to Number Two. He got three for Christmas and the fourth, a huge fire truck, would’ve been lost in the excitement. But this weekend, as I cursed…
Plus One Beer, Minus One Chicken
Life’s about balance, right? Yesterday I got to bring the beer I’d brought to life a little over a month ago. I was so excited to taste it that I forgot to refrigerate it, something I only noticed halfway through.…
Train Coming!!
Right now there’s a lot of excitement in our house about trains coming. Well, most of that excitement is radiating from the shortest resident, The Boy aka Number Two. With his bat-like hearing he can pick up the faintest ring…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: locomotive, nuclear fusion reactor, number two, parenting, train museum, trains, trolley
Making it Yourself
It’s one of the oldest themes of my blog: handmade. This weekend I went back to those roots, finding simple joy in the handcrafted pleasures of…oh, who am I kidding? UncleF#*k-Up finally bottled the beer after an extra week of…
Posted in Home Improvement, Parenting Tagged with: beer, CH, home brewing, leprechauns, parenting, uncle
Caring for Another
We are social animals–we relate more to chimpanzees as they survive through amity than in the hawk soaring alone. Necessary to our survival and growth as a species has been our willingness to care for other living creatures. Short of…
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged with: animals, backyard, caregiving, CH, chickens, evolution
The Best Part of the Hardware Store
This weekend, as a joke while running errands, I told the kids that, as an extra-special treat, I would buy them each their own bottle of water. When we got to the store I made true on my promise and…
Posted in Home Improvement, Parenting Tagged with: CH, hardware store, mowers, number two, parenting, treats, water
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