I've been on a lot of road trips, with and without kids, and there are some things everyone need to know about how to make one successful. There are also some things I do that some people would hate. Here are some of my ideas on the subject (some of it applies to flying or [...]
Category Archive for 'Kids'
Kids dressed for church
Posted in Kids, Religion/Church on Mar 18th, 2007
It's impossible to understand how stressful it is to get kids ready for church until you have them, but here are pictures of today's results. My beautiful children (and Colin), ready to go.
Degen’s birthday was on Saturday, and it was really quite miserable. He had a 102.something fever and a runny nose and cough and lethargy and grumpiness all rolled into his newly-two-year-old body. I baked him a cake…half-baked, that is. It was my first try at making a
Colin’s grandfather died last week, as I mentioned before, and we went to the funeral on Monday. It was definitely the least-sad funeral I’ve ever been to. That might sound bad, but I mean it in a good way. Delos was a good man, loved by his family, 96 years old, mostly blind and deaf [...]
Kids at work
Posted in Kids on Feb 8th, 2007
I haven’t yet learned how to manage my kids in any public place. Both Degen and Maggie are practically perfect in every way, especially at home where I can let them do what they’re used to doing and with the things they’re used to doing it with. As soon as we get to church or [...]