A Visit From Dad

Right now I’m riding in the back of our van with my wife driving and my dad in the passenger seat. Regan is singing “Hi, Beautiful Girl” (a song he made up) to his sister and Elly is lazily looking around. My dad came by to visit for a few minutes on his way to [...]

5 Minute Post

I have five minutes to post something on this blog. My alarm clock didn’t go off correctly, and so it has left me without the time I need to do the things I want to before I go to work.
Speaking of that alarm clock, it has been driving me crazy.  My regular one broke [...]

A Question

If you will permit me to, I would like to ask you a question. This very well may be another “every day’ question that in the long run means absolutely nothing to your life, along the lines of “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?” [...]

Kaizen

Japanese philosophy in Tennessee life.

Bothered by Animal Deaths

This weekend, the Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles was euthanized after breaking two front legs during the race.  I’m not an animal activist, but it does bother me that an animal died solely as the result of human amusement.

New Design

As you can see, there’s a bit of a different look around here. I know that I said it would be a while before I changed designs, but I ran across this one while working on a different site and I really like the style and feel. Plus, it gives some cool features [...]

Today Included…

Pastor Laughing
Wal-Mart Perusing
Teaching
Napping
Poopy Diaper Power Chasing
Tickling
Praising
Tae-Bo Signing
Reagan Coughing
5-Minute Disaster Cleaning
Lasagna Reheating
Paternal Parenting
Toe Jam Picking (Resulting in a Baby Kicking)
Cuddling
Blogging
Sleeping

Your Story

I’m listening to an audio book by Seth Godin, Small is the New Big.  In it, he mentions several times about telling your story.  Whether it’s in a business setting, or whether we’re just talking about how you go about your day as a stay-at-home mom, I want to present the question to you.  What [...]

R.E.A.D.S.

Do you live in Tennessee, have a library card, and like listening to audiobooks?  Then you should definitely check out R.E.A.D.S, the Regional eBook & Audiobook Download System.  This great service lets you download (for free) up to 10 audiobooks at a time from their system using the account number from your library card.  Each [...]

7 Random Facts About Me

At the behest of my wife, after she read a similar post on our friend Renee’s blog, I am writing these 7 random facts about myself.

I was once a member of a black gospel choir. (If you’ve never seen me, you can’t appreciate the humor in this. Just think overweight white guy with [...]