Wife decided to take my car and leave hers for me to pick up the kids from the pool. When went to start the car, it started with no kick from the battery so much so that I didn't think it could start again. The other great feature of the car with the dirty carburetor is it stalls when you let off the accelerator. This all becomes tricky in a stick car when braking, one foot on brake, one foot on clutch, one foot on accelerator. Quite the pressure driving to the repair shop knowing if it dies there is no battery left in the car which strands me in an intersection. When I asked her about the car getting harder and harder to start plus a red warning battery light I get the comment, "I thought those warning lights didn't really mean anything."
Sigh
Friday, August 05, 2005
Flaw in our financial strategy
Wife is always saying, "How can we be over drawn? I put a paycheck in yesterday"
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Sigh
Nice Try
I had been saving my $5.00/week I get for allowance to get my Poker chip set at Wal-Mart. It was Friday and I had finially saved up my $40, 2 twenties neatly hidden in my wallet. Tomorrow was the big day. Wife just called to say "nice try but your 17old daughter needs shopping money at the mall for back to school"
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Stress Dad Out
My mission was to water my parent's 20 outdoor potted plants. I arrived at the house with my 5yr boy and 8 year girl who were already fighting over who got to water. Got my daughter setup watering the plants with the open ended hose that a had a slow water flow. Apparently while my boy was waiting his turn he got bored so he went over to man the facet handle. Next thing I knew my girl was screaming and all I could see was mud showering out of the pot on to the driveway as the flow rate was a good 15 gal/minute now. Got her cleaned up gave the hose to my boy and proceeded to take in the mail. As I came back out of the house there was my boy hosing down the minivan car mats just like dad does, except the mats were still in the car. By the time I got that resolved my daughter came out of the house locking the door not realizing the keys were still in the house. As I was fumbling with a credit card to break into the house to get my keys, the evening showers started with all my windows down. So what wasn't wet from the hose was finished off by the rain. Hey I always say any trip with my family that doesn't end at the hospital is a good trip. Sigh
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Christmas 2001
The highlight of our year was a van trip to California to see Wife’s sister & family. We packed a lot of fun in 8 days - going to the beach, Disneyland, Universal Studios & Sea World. But what we enjoyed the most was hangin’ out and watching the kids play.
Ashley just turned 14 and wants to learn to drive. I am trying to convince her that the legal age for driving and dating is 19 in Kansas. She also went to her first dance for all the 8th graders. Next year they will all be together so it was a way to get acquainted.
Joe still keeps us busy with his activities. This year he added saxophone (his dad’s instrument of choice). He enjoys playing and seems to have Dad’s musical abilities. Well it finally happened with so many kids. About an hour after returning home from my son’s basketball game the family needed to leave for a church but we couldn’t find Joe at home even after driving around checking all known locations. I commented as we drove off to church that when we found him that, “boy was he grounded”. A few minutes later my wife looked over at me and asked, “Did you bring Joe home from the game?” Boy was dad grounded.
Molly is in preschool and taking violin lessons. She has acquired quite the vocabulary and is using it to her advantage with mom. Currently she can talk her way from a 8:30pm bedtime to about 10:30pm time. Her big day of the week is a quick violin lesson, swimming with Grandma followed by a dinner at Coco Bolo’s and finishing the evening with dipping chocolate cookies. Grandma has decided to retire in order to keep up with the high grandchildren demands being placed on her.
Matthew turned two and is big, strong and sweet. In the grocery store an elderly gentleman was bending down admiring Matthew in the grocery cart seat saying what a cute boy he was. Matthew interpreted this attention from the man as wanting to play. Before I new it, Matthew grabbed a can of chunky stew in his right hand and cocked it behind his head, wanted to play catch with the nice gentleman, with a rush of adrenalin I dove back and grabbed the can. The man never new he was .04 sec from going to the emergency room.
The dogs continue to guard us and entertain us.
My sister and her husband moved back to town 4 house up from us. In all their excitement of picking out their new appliances for their new home, I talked him into a must buy commercial grade Lincoln Impinger II PIZZA oven. Thing weighs 600lbs but makes darn good pizzas. I think my pay off is providing free sauce for the rest of my life.
Husband had discovered he can sing opera in the shower. Wife makes sure everyone is fed and watered. We recently upgraded from a queen to a king size bed. Found out if we sleep width way we can fit the whole family in bed. I still think the key to having enough room in bed is a lock on the door. We continue in our same jobs. We wish you much joy and happiness in the new year.
Ashley just turned 14 and wants to learn to drive. I am trying to convince her that the legal age for driving and dating is 19 in Kansas. She also went to her first dance for all the 8th graders. Next year they will all be together so it was a way to get acquainted.
Joe still keeps us busy with his activities. This year he added saxophone (his dad’s instrument of choice). He enjoys playing and seems to have Dad’s musical abilities. Well it finally happened with so many kids. About an hour after returning home from my son’s basketball game the family needed to leave for a church but we couldn’t find Joe at home even after driving around checking all known locations. I commented as we drove off to church that when we found him that, “boy was he grounded”. A few minutes later my wife looked over at me and asked, “Did you bring Joe home from the game?” Boy was dad grounded.
Molly is in preschool and taking violin lessons. She has acquired quite the vocabulary and is using it to her advantage with mom. Currently she can talk her way from a 8:30pm bedtime to about 10:30pm time. Her big day of the week is a quick violin lesson, swimming with Grandma followed by a dinner at Coco Bolo’s and finishing the evening with dipping chocolate cookies. Grandma has decided to retire in order to keep up with the high grandchildren demands being placed on her.
Matthew turned two and is big, strong and sweet. In the grocery store an elderly gentleman was bending down admiring Matthew in the grocery cart seat saying what a cute boy he was. Matthew interpreted this attention from the man as wanting to play. Before I new it, Matthew grabbed a can of chunky stew in his right hand and cocked it behind his head, wanted to play catch with the nice gentleman, with a rush of adrenalin I dove back and grabbed the can. The man never new he was .04 sec from going to the emergency room.
The dogs continue to guard us and entertain us.
My sister and her husband moved back to town 4 house up from us. In all their excitement of picking out their new appliances for their new home, I talked him into a must buy commercial grade Lincoln Impinger II PIZZA oven. Thing weighs 600lbs but makes darn good pizzas. I think my pay off is providing free sauce for the rest of my life.
Husband had discovered he can sing opera in the shower. Wife makes sure everyone is fed and watered. We recently upgraded from a queen to a king size bed. Found out if we sleep width way we can fit the whole family in bed. I still think the key to having enough room in bed is a lock on the door. We continue in our same jobs. We wish you much joy and happiness in the new year.
Christmas 2000
This past year we has been busy trying to meet the needs and demands of 4 children.
Ashley is 13 and has adjusted well to the rigors of 7th grade. She made the honor roll and we are quite proud. One would think that after getting out of college that would the end of homework. Reality is that college is to prepare you so you can help your kids with their homework. To determine If I had become soft in my skills I took several of these math problems to college students which they all have failed. Must be this new math.
Joe is in the 4th grade and enjoys sports and school most of the time. In the fall he played tackle football among concerns of injuries. In the Winter those same boys played basketball which was really like playing football but with no pads. In the first basketball game in the first 15 minutes I think there was 4 tackles for losses and 2 sacs plus a safety.
Molly is 3.5 and is going to pre-school in two mornings a week and is learning violin, Spanish & dance. Her Uncle and we won’t mention his name, Rico, gave her a makeup and jewelry box, and a princess outfit that comes with clacky high heal shoes. Doesn’t matter if its 2 outside she wants to be “Beautiful” and put on her makeup, jewelry, wear her dress and of course not to forget those plastic high heel slippers and she is ready. Used to take 3 min to dress her now I have to get up an extra 30 minutes to accommodate the new dressing attire.
Matthew Gunnar is a precious baby, very sweet and just turned one.
Dogs Jack and Samantha did their yearly pruning on the young trees in the yard. Their standards are no branch lower than 4 feet please. Our thoughts on getting the second dog was to entertain the first dog. Now we have WWF 8 hours a day on the grass and 50% more dog food to keep up their strength. They are eager hunting dogs so if anyone needs 1 or 2 hunting dogs, these are your dogs. Dog food will be included.
Wife works still in the nursery and teaches three different classes at the hospital. She and I feel like we are in school again with as much homework we, I mean the kids have each night. We have already told Molly that not only is she on her own but will be tutoring Gunnar in his schooling.
Husband continues to work at the University, sings in the choir and plays handbells. Still involved with coaching Ashley’s softball team but they don’t need much coaching at this point in their lives. You know being 13 and all they are all accomplished athletes at least that is the attitude the girls give him.
Other than husband getting the flu 2 days after the flu shot everyone’s health is up and we are a happy but a busy family. Hope everyone has a happy holidays this season and for us it will be a white one.
Since nobody took up our invitation to spend time with our family last year we decided this year for the holidays we would travel in our new van and surprise one of you lucky folks. Don’t worry the dogs are house trained.
Ashley is 13 and has adjusted well to the rigors of 7th grade. She made the honor roll and we are quite proud. One would think that after getting out of college that would the end of homework. Reality is that college is to prepare you so you can help your kids with their homework. To determine If I had become soft in my skills I took several of these math problems to college students which they all have failed. Must be this new math.
Joe is in the 4th grade and enjoys sports and school most of the time. In the fall he played tackle football among concerns of injuries. In the Winter those same boys played basketball which was really like playing football but with no pads. In the first basketball game in the first 15 minutes I think there was 4 tackles for losses and 2 sacs plus a safety.
Molly is 3.5 and is going to pre-school in two mornings a week and is learning violin, Spanish & dance. Her Uncle and we won’t mention his name, Rico, gave her a makeup and jewelry box, and a princess outfit that comes with clacky high heal shoes. Doesn’t matter if its 2 outside she wants to be “Beautiful” and put on her makeup, jewelry, wear her dress and of course not to forget those plastic high heel slippers and she is ready. Used to take 3 min to dress her now I have to get up an extra 30 minutes to accommodate the new dressing attire.
Matthew Gunnar is a precious baby, very sweet and just turned one.
Dogs Jack and Samantha did their yearly pruning on the young trees in the yard. Their standards are no branch lower than 4 feet please. Our thoughts on getting the second dog was to entertain the first dog. Now we have WWF 8 hours a day on the grass and 50% more dog food to keep up their strength. They are eager hunting dogs so if anyone needs 1 or 2 hunting dogs, these are your dogs. Dog food will be included.
Wife works still in the nursery and teaches three different classes at the hospital. She and I feel like we are in school again with as much homework we, I mean the kids have each night. We have already told Molly that not only is she on her own but will be tutoring Gunnar in his schooling.
Husband continues to work at the University, sings in the choir and plays handbells. Still involved with coaching Ashley’s softball team but they don’t need much coaching at this point in their lives. You know being 13 and all they are all accomplished athletes at least that is the attitude the girls give him.
Other than husband getting the flu 2 days after the flu shot everyone’s health is up and we are a happy but a busy family. Hope everyone has a happy holidays this season and for us it will be a white one.
Since nobody took up our invitation to spend time with our family last year we decided this year for the holidays we would travel in our new van and surprise one of you lucky folks. Don’t worry the dogs are house trained.
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