It’s that time of year again! Chrissy has gone back to school to sort out her classroom. When teachers leave for summer break, they have to clear out their entire classroom and put everything away so that the floors are completely clear. The trouble with that is they have to put everything back where it was before when...
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Aiden has started playing t-ball again. He liked playing t-ball so much in the summer that we decided to sign him up for Fall Ball. This is pretty much the same as regular t-ball, except the games will go from late August until early October. It’s going to start getting dark earlier soon, so they want to get as much...
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Chrissy had a work seminar scheduled for the last day of our vacation, which left me at home alone with the kids for the day. This would usually mean that I get to clean the entire house while waiting for Chrissy to come home. I don’t believe that vacation days should be spent vacuuming and doing laundry, so I decided that...
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Late last spring, Chrissy and I made a list of all of the things that we would like to do over the summer. The biggest thing on the list was a trip to St. Louis, which was pushed back to the end of the summer. Although plans were made, we had to skip the trip due to inclement weather. But there was a backup plan, which would...
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We had originally planned to go to St. Louis for our summer vacation. The idea was to visit a buddy of mine near St. Louis and then introduce the boys to the Gateway Arch. We also planned on stopping at Cahokia Mounds, where I proposed to Chrissy, on the way there. There’s also the Magic House Children’s Museum,...
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Although our trip to the Chicago Comic Con was not terribly great, there was one really neat thing that happened to us. We got to meet Peter Mayhew, the 7’3″ actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies, while he was there signing autographs. I know that he does the convention circuit now, selling his books and...
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I like to take Aiden to comic book conventions. Primarily, we go to see superheroes (or people dressed up as super heroes) and take pictures with them. I do enjoy comic books, but these trips are more for Aiden than for me. I’ve followed comic books for twenty years without feeling the need to buy any or go to any...
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