Month: October 2024
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Halloween Hazard
My spouse, surprised as we’re leaving the house and I’m wearing the hat: “Are you going to drive with the hat on?!” No. It’s just so ungainly that I have to carry it out on my head or I wouldn’t be able to hold anything else.
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Hunger Is The Best Spice
That first later-than-planned meal was consistently voted the most delicious of the whole weekend trip.
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Failover Fail
So you’ve got the high-tech velociraptor enclosure, but those velociraptors are pretty crafty and keep finding weaknesses. So you build a fence around the enclosure – no expense spared – and the fence immediately falls down, knocking out an enclosure wall, and now there are velociraptors in the kitchen.
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Don’t Look Now
There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.
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Know Your Audience
On the plus side, my kids’ hearing has been fine so far. Which means they have been tuning me out with a mental rather than physical filter.
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Snack SNAFU
Another time during the summer another mom was thinking about how nice it would be if the snack parent brought popsicles! …then as the game ended she realized that she was the snack parent.
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Hold On To Your Sanity
Every baby is different, so the “newborn experience” isn’t as equally harrowing for everybody. Parents with challenging babies love hearing how great that time was for someone else.
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Especially Rejected
Always a risk that pushing your kids to be “polite” is going to backfire spectacularly.
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Wait, Wait, How Many?
It’s easy to get the number of unread emails under 10, the real trick is keeping it there …and not just by deleting everything as it comes in.