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The following takes place between 10am and 11:30am During the whole service I was fidgeting, nothing gave me any comfort. I can barely recollect anything that transpired. The readings, the sermon, the hymns were all a blur to me. At least half a dozen times I checked the pager they gave me. ...
Where we’re going we don’t need roads
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
Well, I did it. I entered my very first cooking contest. In entering the recipe that I did I also took a big risk. Even though the rules of the contest didn’t stipulate that the recipe had to be something simple or easy to prepare, I felt no matter...
This past Sunday night we went out to dinner to celebrate my mother’s birthday. She didn’t want anything special despite it being a milestone birthday, so my brother and I put together a simple night out with just a few close family members. Ordinarily whenever we go out to eat...
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Image by dumplife (Mihai Romanciuc) via Flickr This weekend was a new milestone, but not the good kind, for our son. We had our first big accident in the house, as little man fell off a dining room chair and split his lip. Seeing the fear in his eyes and...
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Fern came out of the bathroom this morning, tugging up her leggings. As usual, I hadn’t heard a flush, but I had more pressing concerns: “Did you wipe?” When Fern’s in a hurry, she forgets the niceties. “Yes!” she said. “So if I look in the toilet, I’ll see some toilet paper?” Sometimes...
The jackhammers and semi-trailers notwithstanding, 14-month old Claudia has fallen asleep in the car seat again. We’ve just dropped Fern at her afternoon nursery school program, and, free of kids’ music at last, I’m blasting NPR with the bass turned up high, like the dorky hoodlum that I am. Then...
The neighborhood 5-year old, whom Fern worships like the full-sentence-writing goddess she is, was nonetheless the topic of a complaint yesterday. “She says I can’t have that dress because she still fits in it.” Just another parenting moment, right? And a million lessons present themselves: Graciousness. “Neighbor girl gives you a dress or...
Why is it that I’m always trying to impress my daughter’s friends with my easygoingness? We had a before-school playdate today, and as is my habit I extensively quizzed our guest on her sandwich preference — peanut butter, no jelly, crust on, cut into squares. Standard operations working with preschoolers, after...
Minor meltdown this morning, but first, let’s define terms for all you non-parents. Drop-off Playdate: E.g. crack for the stay-at-home parent. This is when you leave your kid at someone’s house, and most kids love ‘em. Fern, though, is a bit of a homebody. So when promised (in the most! excited!...
Let a Sleeping Baby Lie. Except Smoosh Her Face a Little, Just For Kicks.
Have you ever noticed that right after a baby falls asleep, you can smoosh her face around pretty much indiscriminately without bothering her even a little? What, you haven’t tried that? Facial plasticity is just one of the many things I’m discovering the second baby around — Claudia, the baby whom I...
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Welcome to the neighborhood; now get out!
Is there such thing as an unwelcome wagon? If so, I’m ready to bring it into town to greet my newest neighbors. The problem isn’t them so much; for the most part, they seem like nice enough people. However, one of them tends to enjoy loud music. Really loud. And really...
Fun With Twitter: Olympic Edition
I was watching the opening night of the Winter Olympics on Friday and was absolutely bored silly waiting for the torch lighting ceremony. It wasn’t that the performances were bad individually, but there were just soooooooooooo many of them and they seemed to go on forever! It was as if Canada,...
Valentine’s Day Cards for the Cynical and Twisted
It’s almost that time of year again, Valentine’s Day! And that means the second annual installment of Blogger Dad’s cynical cards. All the photos are courtesy of Flickr and tweaked and edited by me. Click on the images to go to the users’ Flickr pages. Enjoy! Like these? Check out last year’s batch...
Since most of my readers here are women, I’d like to offer a public service to help bridge the gap in male-female relations. Most problems tend to crop up when we fail to understand one another. Men and women are different. Only when we understand what makes the other tick...
Classic Blogger Dad: Valentine’s Day Cards
Note: This is a classic post from Feb. 2009. I’ll be back Wed. with a fresh new Blogger Dad entry. Enjoy. Valentine’s Day is Saturday and many people are rushing to the store to find the perfect card. While there’s a ton of generic cards suitable for most couples, there’s a significant...
Yay! Things My Child Says is live! If you are looking for funny, sweet, and amusing children’s quotes, then you must check it out. Whether you’re a mommy blogger, daddy blogger or simply someone who enjoys the amusing things that children say, Things My Child Says will have something for...
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Saturday Morning Fare: Kick-Ass Edition
You awaken in your jammies and stumble over to the television. You heart pace quickens as you prepare for the colorful adventures that await you. It’s Saturday morning, and the cartoons are going to be great. Of course, today’s kids are spoiled. They can have cartoons 24-7, on demand, no questions...
Fatherhood Friday: Kat’s On Her Way!
Image via Wikipedia I remember my first backpacking trip in the Rocky Mountains. I can’t tell you exactly how old I was, but I was a young teen. What I do remember is that it was a new moon when we set up camp near the summit. I had never seen...
Wordless Wednesday: Drama at the Pizza Parlor Edition
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What’s In A Name: A Decision Has Been Made
A couple of weeks ago, I posted ‘What’s In A Name?’, where I related my thoughts on changing the name of this blog. After receiving your comments and much internal reflection, I am convinced to leave things where they are. Howefitz Blog is here to stay! I am not beyond a...
Sunday Sermon: The 21 Day Experiment Continues. No Complaints. No Excuses.
For those of you that are just tuning in, or Googled ’spiritual enlightenment’ and somehow wound up here, let me assure you that Sunday Sermons here at Howefitz Blog are anything but sermons. Here I explore matters of the spirit in a way that, I hope, inspires...
21 Days. No Complaints. No Excuses.
A good blog is like a good book. Sometimes you want to go back and revisit posts that meant something to you. One such post by Tim Ferriss has been rattling around in my head A LOT lately. This post was called Real Mind Control: The 21 Day No-Complaint Experiment....
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Fathers get away with having it all. Business Comment - The Independent
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Two national journalists discover the invisibility of fathers | Duncan Fisher
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Storybook Families - Keeping Families In Touch
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Fathers cannot hide. They have a job to do | Libby Purves - Times Online
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Bullying – recognising and dealing with it
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Another Selection from our Collection of Terrifying Nixon-era Children's Books: The Magic Lollipop
This one was discovered during my days scrapping abandoned Detroit public school libraries before the snow ruined everything. It's so silly and deeply earnest I just had to make fun of it. Text is my own. This is Reginald Blaine Van Hoof III. His family has lived in their lovely brownstone...
For scale: The next morning: The kids said they wanted a "Snow Yeti" to protect their fort. I don't take much convincing on that front; quite the opposite, in fact: after the kids got cold and went inside when their mom got home, I was still out there working on the Snow...
W: Look at those costumes! I thought that Will Farrell movie was a parody, not a documentary. J: I think that pair represents Edhardystan's first medal contenders since ice dancing became an Olympic sport. W. Ooh, I see a tramp stamp! * * * * * W: Italy is ice dancing to the...
For appetizers we served possum fritters and raccoon-stuffed mushroom caps
So I haven't been writing here much. All my energy has gone into birthday parties and preparing for an upcoming talk I am giving at the University of Virginia.† I did a visiting lecture a few weeks ago at a nearby university and had a lot of fun using the...
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A post by someone who clearly needs to get out more
I'm sitting in the darkness texting my wife, and I write, This is the worst morning ever but can't even punctuate the damn sentence because my daughter is clawing at my face and screaming in fear of a bedraggled green hoarder who never leaves his trash can. It's one of...
Always Home and Uncool
I Ski, You Ski, We All Scream When the Credit Card Bill Arrives
Just before that first time we reached the mountain, we drove past two cemeteries. That's some potentially heavy-handed foreshadowing when your family has just decided to take up skiing. Turns out, I misinterpreted this sign. The burial grounds we skirted en route to Ski Sundown (there it was again!)...
Can I Get an AAAAAAAAAAH, Man?
Remember how hard I was working this year to yell less at my kids? I blew it all last night. It felt good and I won’t apologize about it. The day started so promising. Ran two miles. Had two good cups of coffee from two different stores....
My Love has been trying to persuade me to take up jogging since shortly after we first met which, I feel compelled to point out, was at a keg party. In those days, she'd arise at an hour still better suited for last call than lacing up...
At eye level, just to the right of the rear entrance to the coffee shop, someone had plastered a clear sticker with a single word on it. optimism Every few days when I’d stop by the store, whether it was to treat myself or the family (excluding the...
When my best friend from college had her first baby a few months ago, My Love squealed in giddy delight. “If you ever need any advice, call me!” she chirped like an over-caffeinated canary to my friend several times during the call. Leaving out her innate areas of...
Rare Disease Day: Alone We Are Rare; Together We Are Strong
This “Do Me a Solid Sunday” happens to be Rare Disease Day. A rare disease is one that affects fewer than 200,000 people. In the United States, more than 6,000 diseases meet this classification and together, these “rare” conditions affect about 30 million men, women and children. That’s...
At-Home Dad Newsletter
The only living house dad in Eau Claire.
Nice at-home dad tune by Garrison Keillor. He shared it on his epic radio show a few days ago. enjoy.. I'm the only living house dad in Eau ClaireMen who care for children — we are rareIt may be common in San Francisco or San Luis ObispoBut not there — in Eau Claire. ...
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My son made me a waffle for Father's day....
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More exposure on parenting bill excluding at-home dads
Thanks to reader Joe Akers, Rep Davis has more comments to mull over to read opposing her bill which excludes dads from her parenting bill. He sent in this letter below to the St Louis Post-Dispatch which was published last nightIt seems that Ms. Davis has sponsored a bill that will...
Dads shut out of parenting bill because "only women can be nurturers"
On my hot seat today is Rep. Cynthia Davis, (R-O'Fallon), and not just because she bought herself a truck for personal use with state money a bunch of years back, or what I think are questionable parenting techniques. According to KMOU of Columbia, Missouri, Davis is trying to push a bill through...
Rep Davis denies dad nurturing father quote, but well... she said it.
Last night I received a video from reporter Sarah Hollenback that shows her interview with Rep Davis. But first off, my thanks to the dozens of e-mails the readers sent to Cynthia Davis and reporter Sarah Hollenback of KOMU TV in response to her story about a new bill offering $600...
Jitterbug
Come out to Kindiefest on April 30 to May 2, 2010. Get the pulse on the kid music community with panel discussions and hear lots of great bands performing throughout the weekend. Register here… space is limited! See you there....
Ziggy Marley wins Grammy Award
Congratulations to Ziggy Marley for winning a Grammy Award in the Best Musical Album For Children category. His album Family Time gets better and better the more you listen, with or without the little ones…....
Holiday song playlist for DailyCandy
It’s that time of year to give gifts… Jitterbug has put together a holiday song playlist of 7 original songs for DailyCandy Kids. We’re offering a free download of the songs for the holidays. Take a listen and give a gift of music – download for free here, enjoy!...
Congratulations to artists Milkshake, Ziggy Marley, and Cathy and Marcy for your Grammy Award Nominations this year. We’re happy and proud you are involved with jitterbug – good luck…...
Daily Candy, the free daily e-mail that gives you the scoop on fashion, food, good deals…… and kids stuff – asked Jitterbug to put together a summer music playlist. We were happy to help out! Barenaked Ladies, Ziggy Marley, The Jimmies, Randy Kaplan and Brady Rymer are part...
Batchblue recognizes Jitterbug
Jitterbug was recognized by Batchblue in their annual Small Business Super Hero Contest. Read about it here, and congratulations to RetroRazor and Kitbook for their 1st and 2nd place finishes! Batchblue’s online software is a great way to keep track of people, communications, to do lists…etc. ...
One Dad's Life
Wordless Wednesday - Vacuum Tubes
I guess I was always destined to be a geek. One of my childhood memories was the seemingly omnipresent tube testers in hardware stores, and as far as I can remember...everywhere else, too! Of course, back when I was a......
Wordless Wednesday - Dreaming in Color
This is a photo of my daughter, Rachel, I snapped sometime during December of 2009. The carousel horses are a picture (or part of one!) taken during Thanksgiving, 2009, at the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum in Leavenworth, KS. Nikon D60,......
Way back in 1977, on REO Speedwagon's hit album "Live: You Get What You Played For", vocalist Kevin Cronin famously stated, "If you want to really get through to somebody, you've got to talk to them in their own language."......
Maybe I have small dreams, but last night, another one came true. Thanks to my awesome wife, Dad, and brother, we now have under cabinet lights in our kitchen! Here's the trick - I'm very particular about what I like.......
Wordless Wednesday - Bendaroos!
Everyone in my family has some kind of artistic ability. My youngest daughter, Rachel (8), actually likes to work in 3-D, which is something that baffles me. One day last week, she combined her love of music and of art......
Wordless Thursday - Wait a Minute. Is That a Gingerbread House?
Yeah, I know. It's now WAY past Christmas, and our decorations are all down, but this gingerbread house remains. We always keep these one-of-a-kind custom creations until spring. Then the raccoons and possums get them. It would actually be edible,......
Dad's House
Single Parent Downsizing Home Life
My teen daughter heads off to college this fall, and I’ll have a half-empty nest, with just my son and me. Teen boys don’t need much more than a stocked refrigerator and a working TV. (Oh, and a place to study, of course.) Plus, my son only lives with me half time,...
A Dad, His Daughter, Her Friend
A friend of my teen daughter was recently going through a stack of old photographs when she came across a picture of me. I was in a swimming pool, holding her (the friend) so that her head was above water. We were both smiling, mugging for the camera. The girl...
As a single parent who’s been divorced and co-parenting for ten years, I get asked fairly often about children and divorce: How did my ex wife and I tell our children we were getting divorced? How did our kids respond to the divorce news? How have our children coped since the divorce? I’m a...
How can you top all the celebrity sightings at the Oscars? Why of course – with stories about meeting celebrities in real life! One of my neighbors is in his sixties, and his hobby is restoring beat-up Ford Mustangs into super-charged kick-ass beyond-your-wildest dream vehicles. He’s not immune to the occasional...
Over at Honey and Lance, the question was asked: how important is sex in your relationship? It generated good comments, of course. Lance is a firm believer that great sex is very important to a relationship. If the sex sucks, he’s out of there. As for me? As a man who...
WARNING: this post may contain TMI and other bodily waste tidbits that are way beyond anything you want to read. Then again, it’s not much worse than anything in Angela’s Ashes. So suck it up, gentle reader, and read on. The other day my toilets backed up. Both of them were near...
Mitch McDad's World
My friend is chronicling this trip. It’s a fantastic and important cause and I highly encourage you all to repost this to your blogs, Facebook, Twitter and whatever else is new that I don’t know about. Thanks!...
Yes, I’m coming out of my blogging semi-retirement for a post entitled Itchy Ass. Crude? Perhaps. But at this point, does anyone want to read another word about someone else’s kids? No. That horse has been beaten thoroughly. Does anyone want to read about anymore marital cliches in the Mars/Venus...
Two Minutes Out Of Your Life Could Possibly Save Someone Else’s Life
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Notice they are using the new technique utilizing constant chest compressions without stopping for intermittent breaths to the victim. This article, For young mom, new CPR beat back death, addresses the subject....
This morning I uttered the words, “get off Daddy’s private area!” at least 5 times. No, this command was not directed towards my wife—I’ll spare you any more details on that front. This command was directed towards my daughters after they jumped in bed with us this morning and decided...
Do They Scare Away Little Cocks?
“Do they scare away little cocks?” The conversation stopper uttered by my 4-year-old, Lulu, during our discussion on scarecrows yesterday. I’m absolutely sure there were no racial implications when she then mentioned that the aforementioned cocks happened to be black. Needless to say, MRS and I went to great pains...
I happened upon this Louis CK clip today. What can I say? Dude’s strong. Not suitable for children or sensitive people....