Category: family

Am I the only person in the world who hasn’t done their Christmas shopping? I have to admit that I am patiently waiting for the Christmas bug to bite me so that I can even feel like shopping at all. I don’t even have much shopping to do. Since Kristen has pretty much taken care…

Last night we got a fair amount of snow. Practically speaking this means that Kristen and I got to do a little bonding this morning as we shoveled the snow in the driveway and the sidewalk. Since Romeo didn’t have school today this hardly seems like a big deal, but there is a village ordinance…

Each you we put candy canes on the family Christmas tree. It’s a fun little treat for the kids and a great reward for them. Well, that is until this year. We keep finding candy canes all over the place and Paulie has been stealing them off of the tree and hoarding them all over…

This morning I had the pleasure of seeing Polar Express with my kids at the Henry Ford Museum’s IMAX.I can’t express how much fun this was for the whole family. It didn’t even matter that we were a bit late and I was a bit miffed about the bad directions… a Detroit tradition of terribly…

It has been quite a productive week away from the job. Today we spent most of our time taking advantage of the lull in the weather (mid 50s today) to take care of oodles of yard work one last time. So far this fall we’ve done a lot of big minor things to the house…

Well, today is it. The last week I’ve just layed around and rested… but today is the last day. At 6:15 AM on Tuesday, I’m officially back to work. OK, let’s face it… I’ve been working a bit today as well. Drats! The really cool thing is that in less than 1 month I get…

Well, after liking this game for almost a year, looking for it in 2 countries, and just plain liking the thing… I finally bought it today from Amazon.  The funny thing about me buying this thing, I hate board games… I generally call them bored games since they are so boring to me. But this…

Thanksgiving Day went off without a hitch. While we had some power problems early in the day, for some reason the power held steady until about 3 PM when everything suddenly went off again. Not too long after that the lady from DTE showed up and did some sort of band-aid. We have some power,…

By the time I was up this morning we had our first emergency of the day. At about 7:30 we lost half our power again. This happened about two weeks ago, the power company sent out 2 supervisors to evaluate our problem but then the truck never came to string our new lines. Long story…

Have you ever had one of those restless nights of sleep where you thought you would wake up and find that your house had been painted say… pepto bismol pink? Well, you can stay at our house tonight and have that very dream? The reason… we are painting our foyer a deep red and right…