It’s a helpless feeling to know that you are 3,000 miles away from your family when mini-emergencies happen. There is very little you can do to directly help things. I’m in San Diego this week for a conference and Mommy is left behind caring for the three boys. A daunting task on a normal day, not [...]
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One of the challenges in moving to a new state in late March is that it means the kids have to change schools in the middle of the year. We were on the fence about the best way to handle this, but in the end, we decided that giving them a couple months to get [...]
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When we left home at 4:40PM on Friday, Memorial Day Weekend, I was excited. As recent Virginians, we were no longer separated by a long eight-hour car drive from New Jersey to get to Grandma and Grandpa’s house with the kids, and we were looking forward to a swift, under three-hour drive (a mini-trip, really), [...]
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Fri, 6:45PM – head out to coach my oldest son’s Little League game Sat, 8:20AM – leave to manage younger son’s tball game Sat, 1:30PM – finish lunch, back to the ball field to umpire a different game that my sons aren’t even playing in Sat, 4:30PM – same field, different game. Coaching oldest’s game [...]
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Sometimes I read an old post from nearly two years ago, and it says exactly what I’m feeling tonight. This is one of them. Hope you enjoy as much as I did… I love, at night, to sometimes linger in a dark room, after everyone else has gone up to bed. Standing in a doorway, [...]
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As the weather warms up but is still a bit cool at night, it has me thinking about camping in the great outdoors. Looking forward to making a few trips with the boys this summer (if the dreaded Richmond heat that my neighbors keep telling me about don’t kills us first), and it reminded me [...]
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How is it that when you are around the kids all the time, you yearn for a break and to get away. Yet when you are away, you miss them. I think it’s a paradox. Or an enigma. One or the other. I can never remember which is which. Kind of like that Alanis Morissette [...]
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It’s been a little crazy around here lately with moving and all, but with baseball season starting, and the Yankees / Red Sox about to start their first series today, I had to post this awesome video clip with Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski.
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As the cars parted to the side of the roadway in front of us and the sirens wailed overhead, I wondered how our vacation had veered so far off course in only two days. I nervously glanced through the window into the back of the ambulance where my son lay with the paramedic and Mommy [...]
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It all started down a bad road the day before we left for our trip. My wife and I were heading to Orlando for a seven-day fun filled vacation to Disney with our three boys, my wife’s parents and her sister. I was out at the store, making a few last minute purchases, but as [...]
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