These posts are about my oldest son, Andrew.
When you are sending boys off to Philmont Scout Ranch, there is a lot of standing around – waiting – on the day of departure. We arrived at the Gleannloch Farms church building just before 3:00PM for a final gear « … read more … »
Getting three people ready to go to Philmont Scout Ranch is a lot of hard work. A LOT of hard work. I was back at REI this morning getting more stuff. And then the fabric store. And then… It is « … read more … »
The children were mildly traumatized this morning by something we will call the school of “hard knocks.” It really is not funny, but it still is kind of funny. These are boys after all. Kyle proclaimed that he heard this « … read more … »
When you have boys, I think there are just some things you do for them that is entirely different from those things that you do if you have girls. I mean, I do not see my sister camping out in « … read more … »
The words you do not want to hear from a child when you pick them up from Étude (Orchestra) Camp… …I broke… …my cello… Yes, those are horrible words to hear from a child. The jokes that followed did not « … read more … »
So tonight we were talking about something kind of related to the topic that ended the discussion, but not entirely related. I read the following quote: “Never look at trombones. It only encourages them.” ~ Richard Strauss I am « … read more … »
When do you know that you are losing your mind? When you do really silly things like buy brand new shoes for Scout Camp. Let me first admit that this IS NOT THE FIRST TIME that I have done such « … read more … »
I took the boys to the doctor’s office. This will be one of the last visits to the office where it is located now. I had all of the boys with me. Kyle needed to have warts frozen off and « … read more … »
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