After the events of last week, the basic principles of life and family have been on my mind a lot. I’ve written a lot about parenting over the last six hundred and sixty blog posts, but one of the things…
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Miracle of Life
I can’t believe I have to write this again but my daughter has survived another emergency this week. Just two days after her car accident and ride to the hospital, Child Harbat was again in an ambulance after a horrific…
The Value of EMTs
Remember the car crash from Tuesday? I still do. What does Child Harbat remember from it? She had fun riding in the ambulance. And she got a free teddy bear. With all that fire and rescue personnel have to do…
Crash!
I got the text everyone would hate to get: “Call me. In a car accident near the park.” This was from my wife, yesterday morning as I was in a meeting presenting to a group. Because my wife was texting…
Posted in Events Tagged with: accident, ambulance, car crash, CH, emergency room, Ford Escape, hospital, insurance, number two, USAA
Viral Gastroenteritis
I’m now on my second week of a stomach bug that has waged war in my midsection. Often an illness follows a trajectory like a hurled ball—a quick buildup to a peak followed by a long descent. This stomach bug,…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: CH, chuck norris, flu, illness, number two, stomach bug, viral gastroenteritis
Getting’ Clippy With It
This is what you end up with when you play “ponies” with your five-year old daughter. I never figured out the rules of this game, but the outcome was fun just for the sake of fun. Everyone should get to…
Anti-Hipster Screed
In twenty years we’ll look back at Hipster fashion and attitude and regard it with the same pity and disgust with which we view the Kountry Kitchen Old West nostalgia of the 1970s, which left us with wagon wheel coffee…
Thursday Grab Bag
Just like Taco Tuesday or Pizza Friday, this blog needs a themed day. And since I’m UncleF#*k-Up I get to declare a day and then promptly ignore or forget about it. Today’s grab bag starts with things going wrong in…
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged with: CH, eating, food, hair, mess, number two, parenting, toddlers
How to Meander
“Babbo, what’s meander mean?” asked CH about a word we’d just read together. “Meander is to wander without a goal, just to go here and there and enjoy yourself,” I replied. Some days are the best because they are unplanned…
Create Something From Anything
The best way to test for creativity is to give people props and free time. There are those people who need tasks, ordered jobs that utilize parts and have a start and endpoint. Then there are those who, when they…
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