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Doing Disney

Our family escaped to Disney World this past weekend. Our school system has this wacky middle of January break. First, school gets out early every day for a week, and then they cancel school on the following Monday and Tuesday. They’re practically daring you to take a vacation. We had been talking...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 01-29-2010
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Top Ten Things I missed in America

I loved our little trip to Ireland, but let me tell you, it sure is nice to come home. One of the nice things about going away, whether it’s to a foreign country, or to your aunt’s house for the weekend is that you invariably come back with an appreciation for home. I’ve found that...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 07-23-2009
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Ten Things I’ll Miss from Ireland

So, I’m sure I could prattle on about our trip to Lucky Charms Land for another week or so, but my fear is that I am starting to get boring. I am afraid that my blog is starting to resemble your grandparents’ slide show from their 1986 trip to the Grand Canyon: “And here we have another...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 07-22-2009
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Ireland Day 7 - Romance, Raptors and a Little more Romance

The fifth of July was our anniversary. We don’t tend to make a huge deal of our anniversary. We’ve never really exchanged gifts or anything. Normally, if we had been home, we might have gotten a sitter and gone out for a nice dinner at Chili’s. Or perhaps used our anniversary as an...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 07-20-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Vacations, Better off Dad, Sarah, Ireland, romance [Edit Tags]
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 07-16-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Vacations, Audra, Better off Dad, Sarah, Ireland [Edit Tags]
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 07-15-2009
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 07-14-2009
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 07-10-2009
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Ireland Day 2 - A Castle, a Windmill and a Famine

Ok, so we didn't exactly adjust to the whole time change thing right away. This was somewhat indicated by the fact that we all slept till about 11:00. I mean, I know it's a vacation, but we're not teenagers. But eventually we managed to rouse ourselves and had a delicious breakfast of Golden...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 07-08-2009
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A Family Trip to Ireland - Day 1

There are people out there who would tell you that you shouldnt take three young children under the age of the 6 on a trip overseas. They may be right. I don't actually agree with them but somewhere over the Atlantic at 2:00 am when I was trying to keep our 1 year old from crying and desperately...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 07-03-2009
Filed under: Filed under: travel, Vacations, Better off Dad, Ireland [Edit Tags]
Take Me Down to the New York City Where There Aint No Grass and The Waiters are Snitty!

On Sunday, I went to New York with some friends. A few years ago I got suckered into being the president of my daughter’s co-op preschool. The preschool teacher (who was excellent) had died unexpectedly (that was a fun talk with a 3-year old) and had been replaced by a teacher who was just terrible...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 05-19-2009
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Our Annual West Virginia Trip…. In Maryland

I don't know if you notices, but I didn’t have a blog on Friday. Or Thursday. Or, heck, Wednesday for that matter. Why is that you might ask? Have you given up your dreams of becoming a world famous blogger who accompanies starlets to movie premieres and has his own reserved baccarat table...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 05-04-2009
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Oh Stuckeyville, Where Art Thou?

We were up in Vermont a couple of years back and I fell in love with the state. It was beautiful and so ridiculously quaint that you wanted to start whittling something the moment you crossed the state line. We had a lovely time traveling the winding roads, ogling the beautiful fall foliage and sighing...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 11-14-2008
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I’m Having a Mid Life Crisis and Didn’t Even Know It!

I have an embarrassing secret to share. The sad part is I didn’t even know it was embarrassing until recently. Ok, so last week my wife and I were watching Desperate Housewives (I am sad, sad, sad to report that this is not my embarrassing secret). One of the husbands on the show is going through...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 11-03-2008
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That’s it Kids! Don’t Make Me Drive to Nebraska!

Child abandonment laws have been around for some time. They were initially created so that mothers of a newborn could leave their child at a hospital without facing any legal punishment. The hope was that this would give a safe option to teens who might be panicking over an unwanted baby. Last month...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on 08-29-2008
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