Daily Life 017: The Fence

March 15, 2010 - Daily Life 017: The Fence

More new boots... What can I say? My daughter loves shoes. And she's not a baby anymore, she's a big girl now. Today when I got home from work, Amy and Abby were outside sitting on the porch swing. Abby has on a red sweatshirt (over a Batman T-shirt), purple flowered pants, bright yellow puddle jumpers with monkeys on them, and quite possibly the ugliest greenish-yellow felt bunny hat... ever. Apparently, she's been very into opening and closing the fence gate into the backyard today. She spent a couple of minutes showing me (over and over) how good she was at it until we walked across the boggy ground to the shed so I could give her rides in the wagon.

The one nice thing about this ridiculous time change, is that there is still plenty of daylight after work to do a little playing outside before time to make supper.

I started keeping track of my life with the girls in 2009, in a series of illustrated status updates called "Daily Life"...As I finish up collecting some of these stories for print books, and catch up on some freelance work, I thought it would be a good time to post some of these older stories, so that everything is collected here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. :)

Daily Life 016: Chainsaw

March 01, 2010 - Daily Life 016:Chainsaw

I read in the manual that this is the face you're supposed to make when you are chainsawing stuffs. Grim and purposeful... this face has nothing to do with the fact that I spend faaaar too much time sitting in a chair working with virtual things, and not enough out showing real stuffs who's boss. I keep on telling myself that it will all be different in six months. Maybe I need to change some of my habits now. Ha-ha-ha!

I started keeping track of my life with the girls in 2009, in a series of illustrated status updates called "Daily Life"...As I finish up collecting some of these stories for print books, and catch up on some freelance work, I thought it would be a good time to post some of these older stories, so that everything is collected here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. :)

March 2010

March 2010

Sometimes what my wife wants winds up being a heap of trouble for me. Unfortunately, I don't always realize it until I'm knee deep. Usually though, it's worth the extra trouble, and even if it's really not I've been married long enough to just keep my mouth shut. Ha-ha-ha! 

We live in an older house. I don't know if you know this, but that generally means there are several trees. Not little ones either, I'm talking about BIG trees..with lots (and lots) of leaves in the fall and seeds in the spring. This is kind of a pain in the back side for me, but at least I'm getting some fresh air and exercise. 

In the fall, despite my best efforts, between wrapping up the year at work, the holidays, and doing anything other than raking those heaping mountains of leaves, I've often got more on mind than thinking about what to do with them. 

Eventually though, spring arrives and I get to thinking about how all those dead leaves that piled up in November are killing my grass. I think about how all the bald spots were just starting to fill in and look nice(ish) at the end of the summer. So I start to rake...and rake...

Luckily, Abby is enjoying helping me this year.

I started keeping track of my life with the girls in 2009, in a series of illustrated status updates called "Daily Life"...As I finish up collecting some of these stories for print books, and catch up on some freelance work, I thought it would be a good time to post some of these older stories, so that everything is collected here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. :)

Daily Life 015: Things to Come

February 15, 2010 - Daily Life 015: Things to Come

This weekend, we watched our friends' four-year-old son, so they could go out to lunch for Valentines day. Abby was so funny, wanting to hang out with him. She followed him around, and sat on her little couch with him to watch a movie... it struck us that this is the same age spread that she will have with her little sister. Just old enough that they CAN do things together, and just young enough that maybe they'll WANT to.

I started keeping track of my life with the girls in 2009, in a series of illustrated status updates called "Daily Life"...As I finish up collecting some of these stories for print books, and catch up on some freelance work, I thought it would be a good time to post some of these older stories, so that everything is collected here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. :)