Last Sunday we packed up the car and headed west to the Berkshires for a good old-fashioned Griswald family vacation. We spent a week in a tiny little cabin at the Mohawk Trail State Forest, six of us in all, and had a wonderful time.
The six of us were: me, Penny, Ethan, our nephew Tyler, and Penny’s [...]
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How I spent my summer vacation
Posted in Coven Hill, Parenthood, Travel, tagged summer vacation, berkshires, mohawk trail state park, mohawk trail on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mom for the weekend
Posted in Parenthood on August 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Penny was away all weekend at some kind of New Agey yoga retreat thingy in New Hampshire, so I got to play Mister Mom here at home with Ethan. It was my first extended time alone with him as the sole parent, aside from our usual Thursdays (when I work from home) and occasional night when Penny [...]
Best friends
Posted in Parenthood on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Things I never expected to say
Posted in Parenthood on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“Ethan, please take your finger out of my nose.”
“Ethan, please don’t climb on the table.”
“Ethan, please get out of the dishwasher.”
All in a day’s work as the father of a 16-month-old.
Mountain Munchkin
Posted in Parenthood, Photography, tagged hiking on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Ethan climbed his first mountain on Saturday. Granted, it wasn’t much of a mountain, and granted, he didn’t actually do any hiking himself, but he did offer encouraging words like “Up! Up!” as we carried the little critter up and down the trail on our backs.
New England Patriots
Posted in Parenthood, tagged fourth of july on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Random thoughts and observations
Posted in Comic Books, Parenthood, Red Sox, Television on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been a bit slow to post things to the blog this week. Not for lack of things to write, just for lack of time. Anyway, here are a few random thoughts and obvervations from the week that was.
Things found in Ethan’s toy box: A plastic cup, a stick of deodorant, a pen, a book, a [...]
Hiker Boy
Posted in Parenthood, tagged hiking, ravenswood park on June 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My weekend, by the numbers
Posted in Comic Books, Parenthood, Red Sox, Television, tagged doctor who, gloucester, new avengers, ravenswood park, verizon sucks on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Ten minutes arguing with Penny about cat urine. (Don’t ask.)
Nine issues of New Avengers read, bagged, and boarded.
Eight innings of baseball watched.
Seven really cute pictures of Ethan taken with my cell phone camera.
Six failed attempts at downloading those pictures. (F**king Verizon!)
Five episodes of Doctor Who watched. (Including this awesome one.)
Four miles walked in the woods at [...]
Father’s Day
Posted in Parenthood on June 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I awoke this morning to find my cat’s rear end planted firmly in front of my face (we call this the anal salute), and the first thing Ethan said to me was “mama,” but after that things went great.
Penny made blueberry pancakes (delicious) and later took Ethan grocery shopping so I could lay around and do nothing for an [...]
