I’m sort of feeling like this bottle these days. Being pulled in so many directions at once. Never mind that it is the holiday season and I just finished up a huge personal campaign on this blog. Never mind that we are looking to buy a house and all sorts of anxiety and guilt and fear are pouring in. Never mind all that because this isn’t a pity party. Because pity parties hold no sway and even if you are in one on your own someone will “helpfully” try to get you out of it. You can’t have a pity party as a modern day dad or even a dad from any era, you stoically suck it up and do what has to be done for the good of everyone that you are responsible for. Either way I’m feeling a little smashed up like the bottle in today’s photo. Maybe tomorrow will be a brighter day. Continue reading Santa on a Bender
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Eva’s ShadowBlaster
So, it is 2:00am and I hear Eva crying. Then sure enough she comes padding into our room talking about how the shadows are scaring her. Shadows have become Eva’s fear of choice lately and I’m pretty sure that this is coming from watching the Tiana movie “The Princess and the Frog”. There is a character in the movie called the Shadowman and there are scary shadows that go after the main characters and can grab them and drag them off. Continue reading Eva’s ShadowBlaster