April 2016

My wife (SO) and I have always loved kids and before we got married we knew we wanted to have some. I always told people I was going to have 3 children, 1 boy, 1 girl, and 1 we weren’t too sure about. Okay that was probably funnier in my head, but I really did tell my friends that.

Anyway, with both of us wanting kids we decided to try. Didn’t see that coming did you? Oh, you did? Well, just forget I said that then.

After years of trying and then going through the normal ways of conceiving and getting help to conceive, we still had no little rugrats to call our own. I’m not going to expand on these attempts here, maybe another time. read more

Some people have a natural filter that stops them from saying things that can come back to haunt them. I do not.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about inappropriate things or anything. I’m usually quite good at not saying bad things in front of kids. I’m talking about saying things that are amusing to adults, but not fully understood by the youngsters in the mix.

The incident I’m talking about now happened when my son was about 3 years old while we were enjoying our typical family dinner. We do try, as much as humanly possible, to have dinner together everyday as part of our time spent together. read more