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Ireland Day 6 – Patriotism, Parapets and Penicillin

It was the 4th of July. The day when all good Americans celebrate their country by eating hot dogs and watermelon and then attending parades where old men in funny hats drive little tiny cars around in circles and then we finish off our day by staring in awe as we shoot mini explosions into the sky....

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Thu, Jul 16 2009
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Ireland Day 5 – Sea Mammals, Scenery, and Salvation

My parents arrived in the land of rainbows and potatoes today. We had some extra room in the house we were swapping and they had a little extra vacation time built up, so we said, why not fly across the Atlantic and visit. They arrived around noon after spending the night before sleeping on the floor...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Wed, Jul 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Vacations, Audra, Asher, Better off Dad, Sarah, Ireland [Edit Tags]
Ireland Day 4 – Commies, Caves and Cathedrals

When Sarah woke up today, she was ready to admit defeat. While our daughter, Audra, was completely over her sickness, Sarah was not. It was time to call the doctor. She was pretty sure that the fever and intensely painful sore throat were, in fact, strep, and not “just something she ate.”...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, Jul 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Vacations, Audra, Better off Dad, Ireland [Edit Tags]
Ireland Day 3 - Illnesses, Long Walks and a Taste of Home

So, I woke up today with a sad little surprise. Sarah, who had not been feeling all that great over the last few days, decided she was down right miserable. I told her that she should stay home and rest and that I would take the kids somewhere and try to keep them from jumping to their death off a battlement...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Jul 10 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Vacations, Audra, Asher, Better off Dad, Micah, Sarah, Ireland [Edit Tags]
When You Step Off the Bus, You’re a First Grader

Yesterday, my daughter Audra finished her last day of Kindergarten. When she got on the bus in the morning, she was just a wee kindergartener. At the beginning of the year she could barely sound out words, had no idea what subtraction was and had never even heard the phrase “school lunch.”...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Thu, Jun 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
Spiderman Freaks Me OUT!

One of the fun things about being a parent is the opportunity to see the world, once again, through a child’s eyes. We spend so much of our time as adults thinking about things in a certain way that it can be hard to change our brains around and understand how our kids are viewing those same activities...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, Jun 8 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Asher, Better off Dad [Edit Tags]
Change Filter Daily

Have you ever met someone without a filter. You know, the kind of person who has zero sense of what is appropriate or inappropriate to say to someone. They don’t ever pause to think about whether something that is forming in their head should or should not make its way downstairs to their mouth...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Jun 5 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, jessie, crazy people [Edit Tags]
Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be

My, 6 year old daughter just lost another tooth last night. And by “lost,” I mean “yanked out of her mouth.” My daughter is obsessed with losing her teeth. She thinks about it a lot and talks about it all the time. And she asks me questions that I don’t really remember the...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, May 12 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, tooth fairy [Edit Tags]
Bowling For Dollars

My daughter brings home about ten sheets of paper every day from the local public school that she attends. It’s usually a collection of writing pages practicing the letter R, math sheets adding 2 +3, something where you had to cut out a picture of a cactus, color it and glue it on something else...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, May 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]
Hannah Montana Wears a Bandana and Listens to Santana while Eating a Banana

I took my 6 year old daughter Audra to see the Hannah Montana movie yesterday. (I also took my three year old son, Asher, but he went with about the same amount of enthusiasm as I did). The movie was…. I don’t know, about what I expected I guess. It was not a great movie, but it followed...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, Apr 20 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, movies, hannah montana [Edit Tags]
The White House Easter Egg Roll - Part 1 – Getting There

Yes. We were there. We were at the coveted 2009, Obama’s first, Washington, DC, White House Easter Egg Roll. But how we got there, that’s an even more interesting story….. Ok. You got me. No it’s not. The story of how we got to the Egg Roll is mildly amusing at best. But come...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, Apr 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Obama, Audra, Asher, washington DC, white house [Edit Tags]
I’m Mad! Completely Mad! HA HA HA HA!

Last week, my 6 year old daughter, Audra’s, School held their career day. Every child was supposed to dress up as the job they wanted to have when they grew up. Audra wanted to be…… (wait for it)…. A Mad Scientist. Now where, you might ask, does the desire to become a mad scientist...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Wed, Apr 8 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, school [Edit Tags]
How the Magic Happens

I woke up at 4:30 this morning, as I have been for the last month or so, to take Jessie to work. Normally, when I get back home I brew a pot of coffee, write my blog and take care of whatever little computery tasks have fallen through the cracks lately (say for instance that letter I still need to write...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, Apr 7 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Obama, Audra, news, Asher, Better off Dad, Micah, stupidity, celebrities [Edit Tags]
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Irrational

I went away this weekend for the first time in about as long as I can remember. I left my wife and kids and set off for three days alone. If you’re imagining three days of drunken male debauchery in Vegas, it’s not quite what you might think. I was actually travelling to Cincinnati (first...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, Feb 23 2009
Filed under: Filed under: travel, Audra, Asher, Better off Dad, Micah, babies [Edit Tags]
If it’s So Important, Call Willard Scott and Get Your Face on Some Jam

Today is Audra’s 100th Day of School. “So what?” you might ask. Yes, I sort of felt the same way. When I was a kid, you know what we did on the 100th day of school? We went to school. That’s it. No parties, no contests, no celebrations. You just showed up like usual, learned the...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, Feb 17 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Audra, Better off Dad, school [Edit Tags]

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