We all huddled near the door, nervous for what lay on the other side. We could barely hear the count from the din all around us but we tried to be brave. We could have been on a rescue mission, on a midnight ambush deep behind enemy lines. One, two, three – GO! The door [...]
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Last weekend we went to the Outer Banks for a few days. While we didn’t visit any lighthouses this time, it reminded me of one of the earliest posts (#2) on MB3 nearly two years ago. I think I’ve learned my lesson and haven’t tried lighthouses since! Enjoy. *** The really tough parts of being a dad often [...]
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Last weekend we went to the beach. Just for a couple of days. Virginia Beach. Because we live in Virginia now of course. Stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn on points that had accumulated from one too many full tanks of nearly four-dollar-a-gallon gas, weekly grocery store trips for an ever-growing family and a bounty from Costco [...]
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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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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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While we’re now a couple months returned from our historic trip to Disney, have since moved to Virginia and are somewhat settled into our new home, I didn’t want to end the reports on our Florida sagas without touching on some of the cool things we did. While it’s true that there was an awful lot [...]
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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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Although I haven’t had a chance to write about it, things are crazy here in our house right now. Why, you might ask? Well, because we’re moving to Virginia. Yes, that’s right, leaving the good old Garden State behind and heading to the land of Lovers. Hopefully there is more lovin going on in VA [...]
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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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