MyThreeDaughters

Elizabeth has been a little bummed out of late. Comes home from school, you know, just not having had a good day. Somewhere along the way, Wife got good advice from another mom about what to ask your kid about the day: Who did you sit with at lunch? Who did you play with on [...]

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We’ve always tried to instill in the girls that they can do anything they want when they grow up. No restrictions. No glass ceilings. They don’t have to do chick jobs; they can do dude jobs, too. Fontaine wanted to play baseball this year, not softball, so she is playing baseball on an otherwise all-boy [...]

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My mom was always fascinated with “birth order,” and being a kid, her kid, of course I blew it off. But now that I have three of my own (and let’s just state here: kids are like cats; you don’t “own” them, they own you), I see the fascination. So, let’s say you are Rosebud, [...]

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About a week ago, late afternoon on a Sunday, around about 5 o’clock, with dinner on the stove and only minutes from being ready, a former neighbor and a friend stopped by. It had been a while, and she just wanted to see how much the girls had grown and see the addition we put [...]

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Wife’s out of town today, so I had to write e-mail notes to Fontaine and Elizabeth’s teachers about a few things. They went something like this: Mrs. Jondrus: Elizabeth’s mom is out of town today, and I needed to update you on a couple of things. Wife may have already sent you a note, but [...]

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,100 times in 2010. That’s about 10 full [...]

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This is great. This Mommy blogger agreed to write a flattering story in exchange for $45,000 worth of cosmetic dental work. Oh, wait, I used to be a journalist, and I don’t want to get sued. Please insert “allegedly” into the sentence that ends “$45,000 of cosmetic dental work.” You know these Mommy bloggers: It’s [...]

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Rosebud, the three-year-old, decided to sit out dinner tonight and played with some toys in the family room. As I was dishing up desert, some candy-like apple crisp that Wife had made from scratch before going to work, she started yelling and moaning. I assumed this meant the usual: she screams like a woman in [...]

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PBS has recently launched an updated TV show based on Dr. Seuss’s “The Cat in the Hat.” In the show, the cat is a good guy who teaches the kids about the world. It’s a pretty good show. The girls like it. But saying that is not fun, so let’s have some. The updated version [...]

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“Daddy, what’s that bone sticking out of the middle of T. Rex?” Oh, Lord, please, Oh Lawdylawdylawdylawdy…Do they really have to make skeletons so, so, so FREAKING BONY? We sat on Rosebud’s couch, the innocent three-year-old on my left side and Elizabeth, the innocent six-year-old on my right. “Innocent,” I say, but they surely must [...]

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