2010 January

Changes in focus

Life sometimes changes focus for you and sometimes you have to decide it’s time to change the focus of your life on your own.  In either case it’s inevitable that the focus does change, that the direction you took yesterday doesn’t jibe with the course you’ve chosen for the next week, month or year.
It’s the [...]

Get your motor running…

The past few weeks have been hectic and a little dizzying.  Lil’ B. has been picking up language skills at a staggering rate, which at times is a bit overwhelming.  I’m just not used to him walking into a room, looking straight at me and saying “want pop-tart!”  It’s a 12 on the amaze-o-meter, but [...]

The weekend comes and goes

Unfortunately, my life never gets any less busy.  Being a work at home dad and a mild workaholic can lead to a pretty long workweek. (My last workweek lasted 19 days.) Of course on top of the work, there is being Dad, which takes up at least as much time as work does.  In the [...]

He’s just as stubborn as his mother (and father)

I spend a lot of time writing about how well Lil’ B. does at school and at home here on this little slice of the web. I think a lot of why I focus on the positives is because that’s what both the school and I focus on the most.  That doesn’t mean that llife [...]

I like good news

I really like the fact that the school sends a daily update of Lil’ B’s progress.  It helps me figure out what the rest of the day is going to be like… At least usually.  If I get a note like the one I got today it usually spells a pretty good afternoon:
Another Great Day. [...]