A great part of parenting is when your child suddenly decides to stop liking something they’ve eaten literally every day for years. So now I have four dozen boxes of Froot Loops in the garage that will never be eaten.
Posts in the category “My Life”
Just had a turkey, mashed potato, sweet potato, string bean casserole, and cranberry sauce toasted leftover sandwich that was better than the dinner from which it came. Plus college football. #winning
I love The Octonauts, although I do sometimes worry it’s giving my son an unrealistic perception of the coffee consumption rate of the average undersea exploration headquarters polar bear captain.
Chocolate solves so many problems.
Pitfall
“Unless you were there in 1982, you can’t even imagine how baller this setup was.” – via @Super70sSports
“They’re espadrilles but they’re flat,” my wife said to me in Rome with the same mistaken confidence it would be understood as if I’d remarked to her that Chamberlain should never have been fooled by the Stresa Conference and appeasement was always destined to fail.
Eternal, The Honor It Bore
Reunited ‘Marauders’ Recall War’s Hell in Burma’s Jungles
I’m not terrified of inflation or student loan debt.
I’m not terrified of global warming or tornadoes or hurricanes.
I’m not terrified of nuclear war or Russia or China.
I’m not terrified of COVID or monkeypox or salmonella.
I’m terrified of dropping my son off at kindergarten.
There’s got to be some way to harness the energy produced by a 6yo spending 20+ minutes to chew a single fish stick bite. Is someone working on this?
All children’s clothes should have a blank tag where you can write your kid’s name. How is this not a thing?