Adam McLane

Category: family

  • Little Thrills in Life

    Yesterday our 6 year old made a major decision. She came home and told mom that she wanted to try hot lunch today. So, this morning, for the first time ever Megan didn’t take a lunch to school. Instead she had a snack and $2.25. She was brave and she tried something new… very un-McLane…

  • The Academy Award goes to…

    Both of our children take after me with their dramatic abilities. While I do my best to limit my dramatic presentations to the stage, the kids stage is their life. Here are 2 quick examples of Paul’s acting abilities from the past 36 hours.   Paul was too tired to walk upstairs. So he let…

  • Hide and Seek by Megan McLane

    My daughter, 6 years old, made this video on her own. If you stick with it you’ll see the genius of it. (Daddy inserted some titles to help you; beginning and end and some sound effects.) She’s basically created a movie that you can interact and play along with. If you actually follow her instructions…

  • Mario Galaxy: The best game for the Wii

    The day after Christmas I went to my local GameStop to buy a video game. I was itching to buy Madden 2008 and was really disappointed that they didn’t have it in stock. I asked  the clerk, “Of the games you have in stock, which is the best?” The clerk looked at me and said,…

  • Megan’s Head

    Megan was bouncing around (literally) after church in the foyer. What can I say, she is a bundle of energy… hopping all over. She was messing around in the resource center while I was talking to people and hopped while under the counter, resulting in a major “thud” quickly followed by a howling cry. She…

  • When the cat is away… the mice play on the mac

    Classic stuff here. My kids are gun shy about pictures, but this captures the “Adam” in all of them. Way to go Autumn for leading the way.

  • K Mart saved Christmas

    Without sounding overly dramatic, K Mart saved our Christmas day. After the service last night I took a gander at our food situation. Let’s just say the cupboards were bare and the day had been so insane that we hadn’t had the chance to get groceries. A quick search on Google maps determined that every…

  • Stoney Finally Got His Squirrel

    Shopping yesterday Paul and I ran across the perfect gift for our yellow Lab, Stoney. You may remember this Spring I lamented about how Stoney longed to kill and eat on of the squirrels that haunts his backyard. So Stoney went into training and even went jogging with Kristen for a while to try to…

  • The boys rule the Wii

    As Kristen mentioned, yesterday we had a Wii bowling competition in our family. 4 competitors, 4 controllers, boys vs. girls. The entire game Paul (4) is talking mega-smack to mommy and Megan (6). We are all pretty good at bowling, but Megan and I are the best. I routinely get above 200 and Megan averages…

  • Not a snow day

    Kristen and I woke up this morning secretly hoping for a snow day. It didn’t happen. There’s just something about having a Saturday morning on a Wednesday and we were kind of hoping for that relaxed-ness this morning. So instead today is a normal morning. Megan is off to school and Paul is already playing…