Family
Tweeny Texters
After years of begging, we finally got our tweenagers cell phones with text plans. Within an hour of activation, Katie had sent 2 dozen texts. To head off problems, we had them sign a contract. Cell phone rules Be Safe Never give your cell phone number to a stranger. We don’t want strangers calling you. [...]
Schoolwork from the Wolf
Claire is bringing home schoolwork that she has accumulated over the year: Dear Litt Red Riding HOOd I’m so sorry for eating you.I should be punished for a long time.I will never eat you again. I will just eat pinapl. From: Wolf
Ladies and the Tramp
I have neighbor who has three daughters. Ed’s youngest daughter is three years older than our oldest and they’ve been great role models to ours. When our girls were younger, their daughters would babysit for ours. Later, our girls would show up at their backyard fence and beg to use their trampoline. For the past [...]
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: Episode III
When you head out to a destination and realize you’ve forgotten something, how far away from home do you have to be before you don’t bother to turn around? For our family, its about two miles. As I mentioned a month and a half ago, Chris was due to have the stent from her last [...]
Introduce a Father to Engineering Day
Two years ago I took my oldest daughter to Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Ohio State. I shadowed Marissa as she learned about chemical and civil engineering by making bath soaps, ice cream and attempting to build a structure out of 3″x5″ index cards that would hold a stack of bricks six inches [...]
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, part deux
In the spring of 2007 after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy didn’t alleviate the gastric pain that she was having, my wife was referred to to a specialist and had a sphincterotomy via an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedure at a hospital in Indianapolis. Although it helped for a little while, the intermittent pain returned last summer. [...]
Snow Angel
Claire loves playing outside in the snow. She’ll roll around and try to catch snowflakes on her tongue. While I was shoveling the driveway, she was attempting to make a snowman. It didn’t pack too well and I told her it looked like a Hershey’s Kiss. When I was done shoveling, she put the officially [...]
What did you learn?
Because first graders don’t always remember to share what the learn in school, each week Claire’s teacher sends home a summary of what the class discussed. For the first week back at school, the first graders learned about Venn diagrams and germs. She sent home what each child in the class remembered about the germ [...]
Christmas shopping
I am pretty hard to shop for. I pretty much have everything I want and certainly everything I need. My family knows not to get presents related to my interests (bicycling, music, computers, board games) because I am pretty particular with my tastes. Because of this, my wife announced two days ago that she had [...]
The blog is back
My wife and I are planning some exciting things for 2009 and I thought I might want to blog about them. In the meantime feel free to peruse the annual holiday letters from 2008 and 2007.