If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This note from Girl 16 will sustain me for a long time. Shared with her permission. What a great kid.
Daddy,
I want to tell you thanks for reading all my text messages. You saw what was coming, and warned me […]
I wrote some time ago about how not to talk to your daughter about sex. Girl 16 was 15 then, and so not technically “dating.” But in Mormon culture, 16 is the magical age at which teenagers are allowed to date. She turned 16 back in February and hasn’t slowed down since.
I expected not […]
Getting ready to go to Grandma’s for the day without Her Hotness. Me with all the kids. By myself.
Me to Girl 2: “C’mon sweetie, it’s time to get ready to go to Grandma’s.”
Girl 2, concerned (I’m not making this up): “What will I wear?”
What will you wear? What will you wear?? You’re two years old! […]
When Girl 16 was barely two, we lived in the bottom half of a duplex. The couple living above us had a four-year-old boy, and he and our little girl sometimes played together. One sunny afternoon, I stood at the kitchen window, which was just about at eye level with the backyard where the two […]
Heaven help us.
She’s learning to drive and thinks she needs a car. Some parents buy cars for their kids, but Her Hotness and I aren’t among them. What are you, kidding? Yeah, that will happen. Let me get her her very own freedom, makeout, and death machine so she can ignore me even more than […]
Artwork by Boy 7. I was wearing my Ninja suit that day.-->
