For Father’s Day, the kids and I took a walk around Ann Arbor. This was planned and even though it was raining hard when we started, we decided we’d do it no matter what the weather. As it turned out, the rain stopped as we arrived even though we were ready to be drenched. We […]
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Thanks to all who have given their lives while serving in the Unites States Armed Services. If you don’t know, William’s middle name is in honor of one such person. You see, William’s great grandfather on his mom’s paternal side was a Marine. During World War II, he was sent to fight in the Pacific
For his last birthday, I bought William a multi-purpose net. The main driver was that we had destroyed a soccer ball by kicking it against the concrete porch too much. Why were we kicking it at the porch? Well, at that point we used a couple of the porch columns as goal markers and between
Saturday was a day of cooking and driving. First up at 9AM was Liam’s second practice with his baseball team. We all manage to roll out of bed, get ready, and head out to drop him off. Ann and I then head to the grocery store to pick up lunch and dinner supplies for today
For a project at work we kept a dashboard of tasks, due dates, and a color status depicting how on track we were to meet the deadline. Green meant that things were on target, yellow meant that there were potential issues that would put us behind, and red meant that we had missed the deadline.
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For this year’s family vacation my parents took us to Niagara Falls and Toronto over Easter break. The idea was to drive through Canada to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and spend a couple days there, head up to Toronto and spend a couple days there then head back home. As in any family
Ann’s birthday is coming up and for the past few weeks we’ve been coming up with a plan for her party. When I initially asked her what she wanted to do the first question out of her mouth was, “how many people can I invite?” Huh? I thought we’d figure out the “what” and the
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This was written for the kids to get them to eat broccoli. (To the tune of the chorus in “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga) What’s green and shaped like a treeAnd fills our mouths up with glee?It is that awesome veggieWe call bro-cco-li! We eat it up for a snack,We eat it up at
Liam’s first “derby” car! He wanted to make a falcon and drew it out. I roughly cut the design and he went through several sheets of sandpaper over the next few weeks to smooth it out. Painting took a couple days. Then tonight it was out with the hammer to attach the wheels, glue and
Ann wanted a pottery wheel for Christmas (?). Here are her first, second, (still to be decorated), and third results. Wow, great job Ann! Her creativity and vision are really neat to see in action.
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