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Waiting, Timing, and Reward

September 14, 2011

My first post in the series I previewed will be coming shortly, but I’ve been thinking about waiting. Waiting is hard. A lot of time waiting is unnecessary and a passive excuse to avoid responsibility for making dreams happen. But sometimes we just have to wait and sit in the limitations of our capacity or [...]

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Daughter Date at Independence Hall – Kind of

September 10, 2011

I got some time with my daughter over the weekend. We’ve been wanting to check out Independence Hall together (the slightly less famous Buena Park version). But I think I’ve finally found the person in my family I can nerd out with over American History. She wanted pictures with all the significant displays and items [...]

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The Room of 1000 Diapers

September 2, 2011

This was first posted in May of 2007, shortly after I first started blogging. I came across it recently and thought it would be fun to re-post. ——— We left for vacation with my family for 2 nights today and when we checked in, the room where we were going to be staying (Chris, Morgan, [...]

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What’s a Record?

August 23, 2011

Every once in a while you witness a moment that’s priceless and even more rare is capturing it with a picture. Here’s my dad trying to explain vinyl records to my daughter Morgan after Morgan saw a record and wondered what it was. She looked it for several minutes just confused.

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Sunny on the Inside

August 17, 2011

So my youngest doesn’t get a lot of air time here, but she’s quite fascinating to me. A couple days ago my wife was out shopping with Kaelyn and overheard a couple of young girls asking their mom, “Mom, why is that baby so mad?” This was in reference to Kaelyn. The mom then got [...]

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Summer Highlight

June 30, 2011

This has been a pretty good couple weeks for our family. I’ve been working hard and a lot but we’ve had fun moments as a family. One of the fun things right now is playing some intramural softball. Our team is horrible so there’s not much hope for winning a single game, but it’s been [...]

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Junior and the Big C

June 9, 2011

Because I’m not ready to stop posting on potty training related themes as you can see here, I’m coming back for more. One of the great enemies of potty training, besides parental failure of nerve, is the big C – meaning constipation. Nothing will ruin your awesome potty training strategies like constipation. Sometimes it’s mental, [...]

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Conquering the Potty: Empowerment Case Study

May 31, 2011

If you’ve followed me on facebook you know that one of the things we’ve doing seemingly over the last six months has been potty training my son. That process more or less miraculously came to a conclusion about a month and half ago, but wanted to give it its own space here since embedded in [...]

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Ten Years to the Day

May 27, 2011

Do you want to know when this picture was taken? That would be 10 years ago to the day! My wife Christine and I celebrate TEN years of marriage together today. That was then. This is now. Ten years feels like it’s a short time, but when we reflect on it there’s been a lot [...]

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