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.




January 19, 2011

Ben's Shiner


In the midst of wrestling, Ben got thrown into the corner of an end table and got a pretty good gash near his eye. The boys posed for the picture to increase Nate's street cred as a tough guy.

January 15, 2011

Pinewood Derby !

pinewoodderby2011 from originsg on Vimeo.


Nate had the 15th fastest time (out of 32 kids) and won the "Most Colorful" Award!

December 28, 2010