Venice and More: Our Trip to Italy Part 2
Northern Italy Day 1 The Saturday after we left home was travel day to Venice and points north. We debated many options for getting to Venice and then to the Killpacks’ home an hour...
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Taking on the Eternal City: Our trip to Italy Part 1
We left mid-week, late at night on Lufthansa. If you can ever fly Lufthansa I recommend it. The people were great. The food was great, the in-seat entertainment system was so good it kept...
Italy “Well-eh Done-eh”: An Intro to our Summer Adventure
School started this week. Our youngest child starts full-day preschool next week. Then dance starts along with weekly music lessons for our oldest three. Before we complete our fall schedule ramp-up I wanted to...
Freedom from Whining
Do you want freedom from whining? Although I can’t guarantee to remove it in all aspects of your life my wife helped me realize one solid strategy for freeing yourself from whining during planned...
Happy Father’s Day Moment!
So I’m kind of having a stay-at-home dadding moment. About a month ago I was really thinking about giving up this blog. I wasn’t devoting as much to it as I wanted and wasn’t...
Telling My Story
I was recently approached to write an article about the “stay-at-home dad” life. A lifestyle website asked me to jump in after their scheduled writer had a conflict. The only catch was I had...
5th Grade Memories
L, our oldest child, completed elementary school this year. I really wanted to be involved and volunteer at her school, but having children who are not in school full time makes that difficult. Rather...
Let me sum up…
So I was going to do a great post wrapping up the last of the year, but as a wise man once said, there is too much. Let me sum up. My wife, The...
Zen and the Art of Yard Maintenance
As a child, yard work was mostly a forced labor exercise. A chore to be done. Saturday morning my older brothers would mow the lawn and I would rake. We would weed the garden,...
How Do You Do It All?
At a birthday party we hosted for our 2nd child I was chatting some of the parents as I interacted with each of my 4 kids. I could almost see the wheels turning in...
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