Personal: December 2006 Archives

The kids really enjoyed Halloween this year. It was warm enough to trick-or-treat for quite a while and the older kids got to choose their own costumes. I had to laugh, however, whenever someone said to my 4 year old, “Oh, you’re a spaceman!” He would always correct them with just a touch of exasperation: “No, I’m an astronaut.”

I went to school with my 1st grade daughter today to share one of our Christmas traditions with her class. When I asked for volunteers to tell me what their favorite part of Christmas was, one boy raised his hand and said he was excited to ask his dad if he “can get my gun and stay up and see if I can shoot a reindeer.”

My younger son was playing with a neighbor boy on the trampoline in the snow and started crying. I went out to help him get up (the tramp was slippery because of the snow) and brought him inside. He kept complaining through his tears that the other boy had pushed him down and then added, “Just because I pushed him down and he thought…” I’m not sure what he was going to say after that, but my wife and I both laughed pretty hard.

Well, I guess this is the obligatory first post of a new blogger. This is a personal site and will probably end up covering a lot of diverse topics. Please feel free to contact me or comment on what I’ve written.

I’ll be changing the design of the site soon and hope to have a few articles up in the next few days. Thanks for visiting.