Over the years, we’ve had a variety of greetings for our voice mail. When my kids were young, I our greeting was me talking to them. One of these greetings included asking you to leave a message for “Pootie Wheeler”. This one was everyone’s favorite. I’ve always been split on how informational and how entertaining …
Category Archives: Kids
Printer’s Drawer – Meg and Hercules
Hercules is the first Disney movie we took our children to see. They were only 17 months apart in age and the first experience in a movie theater was an adventure. My son had a hard time sitting still for the whole movie, but it wasn’t a bad experience. This was the first Disney film that …
The Big Picture
When my kids were graduating from high school, my wife was responsible for ordering graduations pictures. Because she planned to display these in our bedroom, she planned to buy the classic graduation pictures, the girls in drapes and our son in a tuxedo. The plan was to eventually have one picture of each of them, …
Yearbook Accomplishments
My son has always had a knack for jokes that almost no one else would catch. One year when he signed up for 4-H he marked Eskimo as his ethnicity. He regularly told other kids on the bus that his name was something other than James. He kept up that one for at least 6 …
Big Hair
At some point, my son’s hair started curling. During his later years in elementary school, my wife was working at the school. Some of the black boys were talking to her and one of them asked about her son. Another boy in the group asked who her son is and the first kid said, “He …
School Pictures
One of the joys of being a parent of my son has always been the anticipation of the pictures from school. The picture above is a good representation. He has a mischievous look on his face that captures his spirit. Over the years, we were entertained by each package of photos from school. I have …
Kicked off the Bus
My wife called me at work to tell me that our son James had been kicked off the bus. This was when he was in intermediate school. She said it wasn’t as bad as what it sounded. She said that when the principal called her, he said that James didn’t need to be in trouble. …
Dinosaur Birthday Party
My family went to church with the family of one of my best friends from college. My friend Hugh has a son, Ethan, that is the same age as my son James. When Ethan was about 6 years old, he invited James to his birthday party. The party had a dinosaur theme because Ethan was …
Dutch Boy In The Paint
When my oldest daughter as born, there were a lot of things that didn’t have to be put away because she didn’t get into things you didn’t want her to bother. I had a lot of music CDs that were kept on the bottom shelf of the entertainment center in our living room that she …
Birthday Hailstorm
It was June 2, 1998. We were celebrating my son’s third birthday. We had cake and ice cream to celebrate. It also took a while for my son to open presents. We gave him a while to play with his new toys before we put the kids to bed. When my wife and I finally …