THE STORY BEHIND THE BLOG

This blog started as a place for me to put a few stories I had written about a dad and his two kids and the "everyday adventures" they had together. But it has sort of evolved into a hodge podge of dad related thoughts, stories, songs, and other misc. things.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Good Luck Wimpy Kid at Trombone Lessons in South Dakota about to turn 40 (or - random thoughts for the day)

"Good Luck Charlie" just may be the best show on tv right now.  Always makes me laugh.
Of course "Phineas and Ferb" is always good too.
Let's call it a tie.
I watch both of those even when the kids aren't around.



As I mentioned in an earlier post, my son loves the "Diary Of A Wimpy Kid" books.  He really wanted me to read them too....so I read the first one.  It.  Was.  AWESOME!
Really funny.
Really good book.
It's written like I would like to write a book....if I could write a book.



Trombone lessons may not be going as well as we hoped.  What happens if he can't do it?  Or will it eventually click for him.  He has the melodies and is getting the slide positions down....but every note sounds the same.  There is no high or low.
I hope he hangs in there long enough to get it....but I sense a breakdown approaching.
He's good at bottling his frustrations until the spill out unexpectedly.





















If we had a never ending travel budget and unlimited vacation time for my wife, I'd love to take the kids to the Black Hills and to Washington D.C.  Those two have been on the list for a while, but we haven't been able to fit them in yet.  What else should be on that list?  Grand Canyon?  Yellowstone?  Citizens Bank Park?





Only about a week and a half until the crisis hits....




Thursday, June 21, 2012

Fantasy Dad role-model

A fun article talking about Arthur Weasley (from the Harry Potter books) as a great dad.
I would love to have my dad skills described like this:

“Mr. Weasley is quirky, funny, and he’s also very generous and forgiving of his children. "


http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/19/the-best-dad-of-fantasy-fiction/?hpt=hp_bn11







Molly Weasley: *Your* sons flew that enchanted car of yours to Surrey and back last night. 
Arthur Weasley: [to the boys] Did you really? How did it go? 
[after Molly hits him
Arthur Weasley: I mean, that was very wrong indeed, boys. Very wrong of you. 

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Thank you to the inventor of Littlest Pet Shop

The first annual SAHD Awards go to the guy that writes the "Diary of A Wimpy Kid" books, and who  ever it was that invented the Littlest Pet Shop toys.

My son has read all the books in the Wimpy Kid series, twice, and is looking forward to when then next book is released.  And if you know my boy, you know that is quite unusual.

And for the Littlest Pet Shop toys, wow.  My kids will play together nicely for hours...days even with those things.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Great story from another blog.

Let me start by saying I love Disney World.  My wife and I honeymooned there.  We've taken our kids three times, and will hopefully take them many more times.  And then we'll take the grandkids some day.  My wife and I have run a marathon at Disney World.  My secret dream is to retire and work in the All-Star Movies resort gift shop.

(on a weird side note - the other day I was listing my all-time favorite restrooms, and the top two are both at Disney World....but that's a story for another blog entry....or maybe I should just keep that kind of weird information to myself)

Here is a link to a blog about a dad and his autistic son and the story of the final day of the Snow White ride at Disney World.  You may want to have some tissues handy if you make it through all six blog entires.

http://www.shmoolok.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/53/SWSA-Final-Night-Prelude.aspx

The people at Disney are incredible!
What a fun story!




Monday, June 4, 2012

Summer vacation and bribery

Today is the first day of summer vacation.  Well...not really, school was over last Thursday, and we spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday camping....but today is the first day that the kids and I are home with nothing on the agenda.

But thanks to my son totally bombing a state capital test the last week at school and his desire to earn money for an Ipod, he and his sister are in the living room right now studying state capital flash cards.  We've made a deal that when he is ready to retest on them, he'll earn 50 cents for every right answer.   That may seem generous....but when you consider that he only got two right on the test (he even missed Wisconsin....and we live in Wisconsin...and his class took a field trip to Madison about a week before the test) I think the bribery level is just about right.

If we get past the state capitals, there are stil those pesky multiplication tables to bribe on study.