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…
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Posted in Parenting Tagged with: child harbat, kicks, korea, martial arts, parenting, punches, tang soo do
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
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
How to Have a Tea Party
Let’s get this straight: a tea party is serious business. Guests have to be prepared and arranged at the table in order of genus, species, size, and importance. And an ability to sit up on their own without tipping over…
Bring Your Child to Work
You may think it’s a distraction to have your child at work. The bosses will think it hurts the bottom line, that the corporate structure is unable to compute for non-productive workers under four feet tall. The accountants will frown…
Picky Eaters
We are coming up on the biggest eating event of the year and if you have young kids, it’s possible your teeth are already pre-gritted. Pick eating: the bane of a foodie parent’s life. I don’t know why I get…
Like Sister, Like Brother
Last night Child Harbat decided to do a section cut drawing of a vet’s office, with a view into each room where a different animal was being treated. I loved that she had a specific architectural view in mind. Not…
Number Two is Two
My son is two years old or, in the jaw-clenching vernacular of uber-parents, he’s twenty-four months old. Before having kids I vowed only to count a child’s age in months until they were old enough to count it in years. …
