Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Le Skinny
December 29, 2006

There is a reason why I haven’t posted anything in over a week. Actually there are a few reasons.

Chief among these reasons is the Christmas holiday, of course. I don’t want to make this post a cheap recap of what was a thoroughly agreeable Christmas, so I’ll save the details of the event for another post. But know that it was a good year for the whole holiday. Visits went smoothly, gifts went smoothly, the kids went smoothly… With just a few hiccups that went unnoticed until the whole thing was over, it was pretty darn good.

I Don't Know What I'm Doing
December 19, 2006

I guess there are training programs available for parents and no end of books on how to administer discipline of various sorts. I think we have a couple of those books around the house, even one with a title like, “How To Trick Your Kids into Behaving.”

The kids are performing in their own ways these days, and I wonder many things about being a parent, how to get them to behave, how to get them to grow up to be good people, how to refrain from making every moment in life a lesson of some kind.

Packages in the Rain
December 14, 2006

Ugh, shopping in the rain is awful.

At the bulk club store, I picked up a few much needed supplies for our holiday bash: A veggie tray with dip, a four-pack of Rutger Hauer movies, a bulk box of Chex mix, and a case of Yuengling lager. I didn’t notice that the rain had started until I had left the store without an umbrella.

Naughty or Nice?
December 13, 2006

Santa was putting the finishing touches on his official “naughty or nice” list this year when something terrible happened! The magic snowball that tells him who’s been good went on the fritz!

With Winter Warlock on vacation in the Bahamas, there was not time to get it repaired. Fortunately, there were only three children left on the list who did not have a checkmark in the good or bad column, and they were all siblings in the Smith household.