I was flipping through the photo stream on my iPhone recently when I found a screen capture of a text message exchange that I had forgotten all about. It was a few a weeks ago, in the week after Hurricane Sandy rolled through New Jersey. Our kids were out of school the entire week and […]
Read more "A Text From Ryan"I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, full of time spent with family and friends, a plentiful feast, and football. We had all of that, and then some, with plenty of highs and lows thrown in for good measure. There were a few really trying moments, including one courtesy of the New York Jets, who […]
Read more "Thanksgiving Family Football"Sunday was a looooong day in our house. The day began fine. Riley and Veronica were off at soccer and Ryan and I camped out on the couch to watch Sunday NFL. But once we were all back together, things deteriorated quickly. The kids were picking at each other like a scab, ignoring frequent requests […]
Read more "Marry-land and Ill-annoy"Wednesday night, Ryan had a meltdown. Like most of them, the cause was something inconsequential — except to him. But there was something different in this meltdown, both in the way we reacted to it and in how he ultimately found a way to calm himself. We were watching television as a family in the […]
Read more "Finding the Good in a Meltdown"Dear Mr. Kinney, May I call you Jeff? We don’t know each other, but you were kind enough to answer my tweet after this post, so I feel like we kind of do. Congratulations on the release of the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid title, and your place atop various best-seller lists. If I […]
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Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 