In My Lifetime…My Mom

Is there anyone more influential in a child’s life than his mother? I think not. And that definitely holds true for me also. A little over 41 years ago, my Mom & Dad adopted me from an adoption agency (no…I wasn’t delivered by raccoon) and I would like to believe that my parents have never [...]

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Guilty Pleasures: Golfin’ With My Dad & Brother

Editor’s Note: All photos posted in this blog were taken by my brother’s camera. I take no responsibility for any fuzziness or spot shadows because my brother has a new photo organizer that allows him to play with sepia tones and soft focus and he has taken to adding special effects to EVERY picture! So [...]

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Picture Of The Day_The 2 Stooges

My brother & brother-in-law.

Aaaaaaaand…I got nuthin’…

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2 Birthdays For 2 Important People

So today my brother turns 31. And despite what he thinks, he’s getting older every day. But for the past few months he has turned himself around! He quite smoking, started running and working out, had a new baby girl and has done everything he’s SUPPOSED to be doing at his age (which is to [...]

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I’m ANOTHER Monkey’s Uncle

Last Friday my brother, Frank, and his wife welcomed their second child and first daughter into the world. Allison is beautiful and has her mother’s good looks! (Thankfully). And her brother, A.J., has yet to figure out that now he won’t be getting all the attention…which should be happening right…about….now.
As of this posting, I am [...]

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The Summer That Was

Dude…June & July were crazy busy! And not for work related reasons either. Mostly just for kid-related reasons. And house-related reasons. And summer-related reasons. Needless to say, my blogging has taken a hit because, quite frankly…I’ve been really freakin’ busy up in here! And now that August is rolling around, I’ll be busy working and [...]

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When A Cousin Comes To Town…Day 4

Today was a fun day and the rain held off. We went to the driving range (after making many stops to the bank & the steam cleaner place & another bank) and Alarik & Christopher hit a bucket of balls. I think they had fun, however they plowed through the bucket so fast that I [...]

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What My Sister Needs To Know

So I asked for suggestions on blog topics a few days ago. The only one who actually gave me a specific topic was my sister who is going through a breakup right now with her husband. I haven’t been around to help her in any way because we live in different places, but I understand [...]

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Rainy Days & Wednesdays…

Day 3 of Alarik’s visit this week. We had oh so many plans for the day…a trip to the zoo, a trip to the Bengals football stadium, Christopher’s practice. Many things that would have been more interesting than sitting in the house all day watching the rain fall. But that’s what happened…and that’s what we [...]

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When A Cousin Comes To Town…Day 2

So today wasn’t terribly busy. The kids played over at the neighbor’s house for an hour or so, then we were off to the pool for some fun in the sun! Afterwards, we came home, had some dinner and went to watch Christopher’s football practice. I think the kids had fun…but you would have to [...]

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Little Cans Of Lemonade

Drinkin’ the lemonade…
This week will be full of good times as my nephew visits from Zanesville. Alarik is my sister’s only son and he and Christopher get along swimmingly (and I say that because they both LOVE to swim). So it was an easy decision to bring him home with us for a few days [...]

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Top 10 Changes That Come From Quitting…

Notice the fag in his left hand…
My brother Frank has recently kicked his nasty smoking addiction that we (our collective family) have been giving him crap about for pretty much the last 12 years of his existence. Finally, after mucho haggling and several tries, he has managed to put the cancer sticks down and has [...]

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My New Nephew…(has got some serious hair!)

Little man. Brand new to the world and as happy as a little clam. And he has an amazing amount of hair! Seriously…I have never seen this much hair on a newborn in my entire life! And the funny thing is…it’s actually very stylish. You could put this kid in some Pac Sun clothes, give [...]

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…and in a related topic…

So with a new baby comes lots of new toys to figure out. Baby seats, strollers, swings, bottles…you name it. And for the dad? How about the Baby Bjorn? You know what it is…it’s the new fashion accessory! Everyone is doing it now…just take a look…

Featured in this hit movie…

Angelina
And that’s about all the Googling [...]

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…and on a totally unrelated topic…BOWLING!

Also to add to my day, my Mom & I took the kids to the bowling alley for a couple of rounds. Can I just say that Ava has really picked up on how to throw the ball down the alley, Christopher broke 100 and I still suck. But we all had fun, even though [...]

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