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This little girl is getting married…

I know, she doesn’t look like that anymore. But that is the way I remember her, back when I was a stay-at-home dad… before that was a thing… and the other dads made fun of me. I didn’t care. I … Continue reading

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The wedding shower…

Turns out that wedding showers involve drinking… Fancy drinking. Most of these pictures were taken by Mollie, our 17-year-old… because, being a man, I wasn’t allowed to be at the wedding shower. My wife went all out. That is a … Continue reading

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My godson loves me… wait… where did my butt go???

Well, I was going to start this post with some sappy comment about how magical it is when a kid spontaneously grabs your hand because they love you… but then, I nabbed this picture off Big Johnny’s Facebook feed, and … Continue reading

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So, yeah… wedding shower at our house this weekend!

We are on the final countdown for Jessica, my older daughter, and Jason, my future-son-in-law, to get hitched. A little over a month. So our house was full of love this weekend. It was also full of homemade snacks! Oh, … Continue reading

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Hey, not every day that I babysit Olivia as a zoo day… or a park day…

Some days, you just have to hang around the house… our house, in this case, because they are still redoing their kitchen. We did take a walk. And, as usual, she had to touch every flower she saw. The thing … Continue reading

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Well, I got to hang out with little Olivia again today…

That kid is so cool. Yeah… darn glad to meet ya! Beam me up, Scotty… which is funny… because her parents are huge Star Trek nerds. She is so cool that she doesn’t even use a pillow like the rest … Continue reading

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Even more flowers…

Just to remind you that there are places on this earth where it never snows… Where flowers bloom all through the year… And birds are singing in the trees… which are also full of flowers… And the world is a … Continue reading

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What is going on over there???

You can’t do that in a public park… I don’t care if you are two consenting adult statues! Get a room… in an art museum… Nope… doesn’t look any better form this angle… And there is Olivia, looking suitably outraged. … Continue reading

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A fish, some ducks, crazy love pants, and other stuff…

I am babysitting Olivia again, and I took her to Balboa Park here in San Diego. She liked the fish. She also liked the ducks, which, it turns out, have the ability to slide into the water at full speed … Continue reading

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The serene act of swinging…

I took Olivia to the park yesterday. We had fun. She liked the view. She thought it was particularly cool that my younger daughter’s high school was right below us. She wanted to go down and see it. She really … Continue reading

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