The Modernish Father

It was only a matter of time. You can now officially add me to the list of people in our house who are sicker than a dog. Hope The Wife is watching out, she’s the only one left. Bonus: The Girl’s day care center called today at 2:00 when she had a relapse. So I [...]

The Girl may be doing better, but it looks like she passed her death plague on to her brother. At 4 o’clock this morning, The Boy burst in to our bedroom sobbing uncontrollably. We were able to make out the words “I throwed up,” which were quickly followed by “I’m going to throw up again.” [...]

Yesterday as I was driving to work, a random thought occurred to me: It’s been a while since either one of the kids were sick. At that exact moment, I knew that I had doomed one of our children to some illness and our whole family to a craptacular time, but I figured that the [...]

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Dec. 9th to Dec. 16th:

First of all, a bit of an apology to those of you who had some difficulty logging on to this site over the past 48 hours or so. My hosting company has been having some issues and the ol’ blog has been completely kaput a couple of times since Thursday. I’ve been using this hosting [...]

Okay, so maybe I was a bit hasty when I said that all of the snow would be gone by noon today. Technically, I was right about the snow that fell this morning – it had all disappeared by lunch time. What I didn’t count on, however, was us actually getting some more snow this [...]

When we woke up this morning, there was a wee bit of snow blanketing everything in sight. It certainly wasn’t any sort of blizzard (like the ones we enjoyed in Colorado) and it will probably all be gone by noon, but it does pass for excitement around these parts.