SAHDism

Category: Anecdotes

  • I’ll Take Door Number One, Marty

    …so it’s a lazy Saturday morning, mama is at work, I’m reading, and the kids are … uh, I don’t know. They’ve been quiet for a while. Too quiet. My daughter had come to my bedroom door a while back saying something about leaving them alone in her room for a while but I couldn’t…

  • Before and After Photos

    “Before and After What?”  you might ask.  Let’s just say I was taking a photo of my three beautiful children playing in a park in Hawaii while on vacation.  That’s the “before” photo. I look at the photo on the camera screen and I notice that the lens was fogged up from being in the…

  • Boy, Does HE Know How To Give A Compliment

    My kids rave over their Mama.  They sing her praises most days when she’s at work.  As they’ve been getting older, they have also started to gain empathy and one day, my son realized that maybe I might feel left out when they were singing her praises.  After my daughter finished a rousing chorus of…

  • Mama ain’t gonna teach you this

    As my daughter gets older she has less use for me in certain instances but today my daughter really needed a Daddy

  • That Looks Painful

    My two boys, being close in age, have a lot of clothes that look interchangeable, with only a slight difference in size.  This means that they regularly wear each others’ clothes and my older boy will come out in high-water pants while my younger son has pants that drop around his ankles because he’s not…

  • Sometimes It’s a Good Thing

    My three year old has zero filter and no control over the volume of his voice; this can quite regularly lead to awkward conversations in public places but not today.

  • The Evolution of Toilet Training

    Toilet training our first child was a significantly more involved process than it was by the time our third child came along.

  • In Spite of Myself

    I’m having a bad evening and sometimes I feel I’ve been blessed with beautiful kids in spite of myself.

  • A Restaurant Excursion

    The first trip that I take all three kids by myself to a sit down restaurant ends up being so much more than I expected

  • An Exchange of Love Notes

    I wrote a love note to my daughter and for a moment had a sudden fear that maybe she’d outgrown love notes