All three boys are napping – the big boys just requested a nap, and we put them in our bed. It’s kind of amazing. We had a long morning swimming and the sun drained them of life force, as it did me. We’ve all had a nice re-charge and are about to go to a…
Weekend Rain
I sit on my couch, surrounded by sick and napping children, rain pattering on the roof, the radio playing low. I want to write a typical post, a “Day in the Life” of the RG family, but today is the day of the Orlando nightclub shooting, and the day cannot pass without comment. In July…
Drizzly Zoo Trip
Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls. I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy million people, kids scattering in three directions and being swallowed up in the crowd in seconds. So I settled on the zoo!…
Summer “Break”
Summer ‘vacation’ is so different as a working parent! Ugh, 3 months to find something for the kids to do each week, 3 months of slight guilt that they aren’t getting any lazy time at home, 3 months of wondering why the heck summer day camps run from 9am to 3pm . . . When…
Memorial Day Weekend
We had a MDW that was action packed and also leisurely. Since the kids have short attention spans, all of our “action” was relatively short, punctuated with long spans of lounging. On Saturday, we woke up and went swimming at the gym we just joined. Before getting there, we ducked into Walgreens and purchased a…