The boys have nearly the whole collection of plush Angry Birds, with the only one missing being the green one. At some point, we discovered that in June, some more Angry Bird products would be released. All facts that are basically irrelevant to this story, because, like many of our […]
On the way home from school, Benjamin asked me a complicated question that, on first pondering, didn’t make a whole lot of sense. So, I spent a moment trying to figure it out and noticed that Benjamin was oddly silent. He usually isn’t patient for answers and will keep repeating […]
I believe in moral absolutes. One death does not justify another. Ten deaths does not justify another. Three-thousand deaths does not justify one. As a Christian and a Catholic, I do not believe in taking a life for the sake of justice. There is no eye for an eye in […]
I think I have mentioned this before, but Benjamin has a habit of trying to tell Matthew what to do or lecturing him. The other night, before Andrea got home from work, I was telling Matthew not to do something. Benjamin, not wanting to miss the opportunity, started to lecture […]
The other day, Matthew was playing a video game where cartoon characters are racing each other in cars when we heard him say, “They are driving like idiots.” Andrea started laughing, but I paused trying to figure out where I had heard that before, right down to the inflection in […]
Benjamin was asking one of his normal questions about how humans are made (“What is under our skin?”, “What is blood?”, etc.) when, out of no where, Matthew asks, “Girls are not human, right?” I laughed and asked him if he meant “Squirrels.” “No!” “Girls?” “Yes! They got funny hair […]
A lot of people, when they come back from California, come back with wine stuffed in their suitcase. When I came back from California, I came back with Chocodiles stuffed in my suitcase. For those of you wondering what a Chocodile is, think Twinkie covered in chocolate. When I was […]
As I have previously talked about in this blog, Benjamin has had some problems in school and with his teacher. One of the issues she has cited is a lack of focus on his part. The thing he has complained about the most is being bored. Of course, I have […]
Yesterday, we were wandering around with some friends when Benjamin threw a pretty big rock. I told him to stop throwing rocks and that there is never, ever a good time or excuse to throw rocks. Without even waiting a moment, he immediately said back to me, “What about skipping stones on […]
Yesterday, I got a bunch of suite tickets for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies triple-A farm team, from my company and the boys were REALLY excited to go. However, they were seriously disappointed to see all the rain coming down as we were driving home from school before the […]
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