Kangatopia

My sister is telling me to stop moping over the death of my faculty. She’s right. He would have thought us all morons if we let the mourning go on too long.
So, as it turns out, he was a fan of Lance Armstrong’s – even going to France to watch LA compete in [...]

Bear is spending his days with his grandfather this summer, and Monkey and Winston spend their days in a daycare. So, this morning we all woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast, Winston promised to not poop in her underpants today, Monkey brushed her own hair, and Bear practiced tying his shoes. This is [...]

Here’s a change of pace – a few little stories about the rulers of my universe:
Bear had a friend over to spend the night for the first time a week ago.  Bear has spent the night many times with his friends, but we’ve never had a child over here.  The problem has been that Bear’s [...]

I ran out of vinegar at work today, so instead of going out and trying to find low calorie fare at one of a handful of fast food joints in the area, I decided to drive home and eat the salad in the comfort of my own rocking chair while watching some silly soap opera [...]

It’s been an exhausting day.  Bear has a project due in school in the morning, and I took a few hours off work this afternoon so that I could help him finish it and practice his presentation.  We finished the project, had dinner and the nightly routine, and he was still in bed on time.  [...]

Due to the lovely weather of the last couple of days, I am for what feels like the first time enjoying spending time downstairs at the computer without wondering when frost bite is going to set in.  However, there is no time to write tonight as I have just spent a little time whipping up [...]

These days I have given up on my short lived addiction to coffee and gone back to my roots of drinking 2 liter bottles of Coke Zero in the relative quiet of my office.  Lugging a 2 liter to work with me somehow seems faster and easier than ducking out to go and get a [...]

I was just sitting here at my work computer, kind of dozing off while trying to motivate myself to do something productive, and I had this little 5 second dream that my mother had died. I woke up thinking that was a terrible thing – the worst thing, even, that could happen and then [...]

Certain memories will always stay with me, and surface when they are needed.
Winston stepping slightly in front of me when two little boys in her daycare class came careening towards us from the back of the room. “My mommy,” she warned once, and then, “My Mommy” again just to make sure they understood.
Winston [...]

Finding time to update can be a wee bit tricky. Between the kids, work, cycling (which, granted, I haven’t been doing too much of lately), working out and Shep and his cats (aha! a real name soon to be replaced with a moniker once he comes up with one), Kangatopia gets pushed further and [...]