This is a test message from my phone to my blog. It is my hope that I will blog more if this works smoothly. Especially through the posting of images.

You wouldn’t know it from this picture – but Ruby is looking at Santa. Picture a large room full of swooning grandparents, kids already firing on all cylinders from indulging themselves at the decorate your own cookie table, and parents who are trying to capture just that right moment on camera. That was us today.…… Continue reading Hairy Eyeball

The 2 hour drive. The early morning wake up. The packing of snacks. The drying out of clothes. All of it well worth it for a sunday afternoon at the cottage. Even if it was raining. How many times in my life will I get to watch my kids discover snow? Or wonder about how…… Continue reading Sundays were made for this

The baby was in the ergo. The bottle was in the back pocket. I was doing the bounce trying to keep the poor kid happy and calm while picking up her older sister from school. When I got to the park and attempted to feed her this is what I found in the bottle.Arden was,…… Continue reading The fragility of breast milk

day in and day out i am trying to learn the same lesson. i’ve been trying to learn the lesson since starting at home full time in september and i am still learning it to this day. on any given day, you can accomplish one thing. personally, i am finding that i can start as…… Continue reading one thing a day

I’ve been fortunate, over the years, to have had a number of interesting jobs. I’ve worked for a flower shop (as a street clown with a sandwich board – totally miserable), a baseball umpire, at an advertising agency, as a camp director, I’ve gone to graduate school, I’ve been a teacher. And there are few…… Continue reading working at home, living the dream

and a thousand miles behindin the words of bob dylan – that pretty much sums things up these days. so much going on, and more space in my mind that at any point in recent history that i can remember. only a little time to write.this is, in fact, yesterday’s contribution.there are so many things…… Continue reading one too many mornings

For some reason or another, the nap routine is falling of the rails. Or perhaps, judging from the screams coming from upstairs and the fact that I finally got out of there after 20minutes of kdified ABBA music, has fallen off the rails. This spells bad news for me and the rest of my family.…… Continue reading Nap time

For as long as I have had a job, I’ve really only wanted to do one thing with working days – run a camp. When we found in January 2011 that my wife was pregnant with our 3rd child, all of a sudden, that started to look like a very real possibility. Of course, I’d…… Continue reading My blog

The other day, as my dad was holding my 8 week old daughter, I found myself saying “try making eye contact with her – it helps calm her down.”I’m not sure when I had this realization. It is just one of the many small things that Arden is teaching me. The power of eye contact.…… Continue reading Eye Contact