February 22, 2011

Visit to Ben's School



Dad reads Diary of A Worm and Diary of A Spider to Ben's preK class and draws the characters.

February 17, 2011

Dear Nate,

Mom and Dad worry for you because you are so very hard on yourself ... often down, sullen, sour, pensive, gruff, vexed, gloomy, cynical, surly, dismissive, cross, stormy, solemn, serious, etc. etc.

Mom and Dad have similar personality traits.

And yet - we cannot be hard on you - for being hard on yourself. This only makes matters worse.

This may be Mother Nature's joke on parents everywhere ... perhaps we can learn together how to laugh at it.

February 14, 2011

Water Dog


We discovered Muxu's love of the sand and ocean at Sandy Hook.