Quote of the day!

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

Ummm... at least he is trying to help!

Is this bad... seriously, is this bad?  So The Boy loves to dig in trash and find "treasure".  The other night we were cleaning up dinner and he had found something to keep his attention.  I look down and there he is filling up the dish washer soap dispenser with an empty white rum bottle (mojitos are my favorite).  1. is it bad that I am letting him play with it... 2. is it bad that I think it is funny and go so far to take a photo of it and post it on the internet?  If it helps your decision, I don't feel bad about it at all.  It is so funny to me how he is copying everything we do now.  This last week he has been saying whole sentences.  It is true that Blessed and I have no idea what he is saying but he says them all the same.  He will even answer questions in full "babel"  sentences when we ask him questions.  He cracks me up.  By the way, Robert Baer has a new book out.  I have already finished it, good one.  Something we just finished up has just hit the news, pretty proud of it.  Did you hear about it?  We will see who is following the blog.

Quote of the day!

“They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.”

Robert Baer

Shenondoah

I fondly remember sitting in the corner of my room playing my dads old eight tracks and listing to this song about 30 times a day.  One of may most favorite songs and memories.  It takes me someplace else.

Sissel - Shenandoah

Well I'm back...

I am back, sorry about the absence!  Work called me away for about four days in a row... I do mean in a row!  I was a tired little puppy.  Rest easy though me and the boys did some good work.  Maybe some day I can tell the stories.  After being gone so long without being around The Boy, and then coming home to hear "DADDYYYYY" down the hall, I know where my heart is!  Oh by the way, the kid can talk!  It seems as though this week he decided to learn about 30 new words, and he says them all.  However, he only says them when he is good and ready.  I also had a daddy fail moment last week right before I left...it had to do with a treadmill and The boy.  I wont go into details but there were no serious injuries!  I did feel pretty bad.  I had no idea he was going to loose his mind right then, nor did I know he could leap like cheetah!

The best of times... the worst of times.

Yesterday the Nanny arrived at 8:30 AM and The Boy and I had been up since 6:30 AM playing and rough housing.   We had eaten, brushed teeth, read books and chased the dog.  When the Nanny arrived I pass The Boy off and I go prepare for the work day.  Just after going into my room to shower and dress I heard The Boy let out a scream and begin to pound on my bedroom door.  This is not unusual as he does not like it when I have to leave him to get ready.  I heard the Nanny try everything she could to console him.  After 5 or 10 minutes I heard him calm down.  When I was ready to depart I exited my room and went to the kitchen to get  a cup of coffee and tell The Boy good bye.  When I walked in to the kitchen the Nanny was holding The Boy and reported to me how upset he was because he could not find me.  The Boy reached out from the Nanny and wanted me to hold him (I wish so bad I could show you guys a picture of him, he has to be the most beautiful little boy you have ever seen).  I scooped him up from the Nanny and he placed his head on my shoulder, tucked his hands, and closed his eyes.  It was only 8:50 AM.  I could have stayed in that moment forever.  I was at my calmest sense of being that I think I have ever felt.  I love this little creature.  I proceeded to walk around the house for the next 10 to 20 minutes singing and rocking him, he never woke up.  I took him into his bedroom, placed him on his bed (big boy bed - whole other set of funny stories there - I don't care who you are, it is funny when they fall out), and covered him up.  That afternoon the Nanny said he slept till 1:00 PM!  Wow!  I guess he just needed his daddy.  I guess I just need him too.  I was very late for work :)

Quote of the day!

So many Christians do so little for The One who gave so much!

Mark Driscoll

The challenge!

So at work I spoken to several of my friends and co-workers concerning whether I should resign or not.  This is the statement heard from most of those; "Man you could never do it, you might last 6 months or so but after a year you will be going crazy.  You will miss your days and the excitement, you don't know what your getting into!"

Well what do you think SAHD's?  Did any of you hear this?  For those of you doing it for a while, what has been you experience?  What are your negative experiences?  Would you do it again if you had it to do over?  Would you modify how you did it?

I think all of these points are valid, however I do know how much I love being with The Boy, and I am very active with him.  I have so much I want to teach him.  We will see...

Quote of the day!

Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.


- Abraham Lincoln