Mr. Mom Does Lunch
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Sandi was sick today so I stayed home to take care of the children in her stead. Let me tell you, the phrase “herding cats” ran through my mind several times in the course of getting Annie and Kimberly ready for school and Mimi and Paul ready to take them to school. I was freaking [...]
Browns & Noble
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Our next-door neighbor gave us some items today that she no longer needed, one of which was a heart-shaped wooden end table. We had it sitting in the living room when Kimberly had the bright idea of using it as a book store: Since Sandi and Mimi were sitting on the couch nearby eating chips [...]
Knowing Her, Probably
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009“Let’s play Kewlopolis. You know, with horses.” — Annie “Kewlopolis? Is that all you think of?” — Kimberly Overheard in the pool as they were trying to decide what to do after the sustained spinning contest was over. “Kewlopolis” is some Saturday morning cartoon bloc; they watched “Horseland” this weekend and apparently Annie was quite [...]
Never Too Early
Monday, August 24th, 2009“Do rock stars have to go to college?” — Kimberly This is the latest in a long series of career planning discussions we’ve had with Kimberly. After I answered in the negative, Kimberly responded incredulously with “So they just make up their own songs?” This was, to my knowledge, the first career choice she had [...]
He didn’t.
Monday, July 13th, 2009“Paul, could you stop talking? My back hurts.” — Annie Annie scolded Paul, who was sitting in the car seat next to her, for being too loud. We have no idea why these two situations were related and she was quite cute saying this while reclining and reading Pinkalicious.
On My Own
Friday, June 26th, 2009Sandi is out of town right now, taking a four-day break from work to catch up on her scrapbooking at a cabin up north. I am so glad that she was able to do this because the stay-at-home mother job is always-on—her charges come with her whenever she gets a vacation. It’s a small thing, [...]
Grabbed My Bags
Sunday, June 7th, 2009I’m sitting in Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport waiting for a flight to San Francisco, California. I’m going there to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference from Monday to Friday. We told the kids yesterday since we wanted to limit their time to dwell on the impending departure while not springing it on them as we pulled [...]
Gotta Know the Language
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009“How do you say ‘fast’ in your language?” — Kimberly “Oonsalawntee” — Annie “Oonsalawntee! Oonsalawntee!” — Kimberly Overheard from the other room as The Girls were cleaning up the playroom. We also learned that “ahnsalawntee” means “slow.” I, of course, am not sure of the proper spelling of either word.
Easter Fun
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Easter is a major holiday around the Brown house. As far as mythical holiday characters go, the Easter Bunny is neck in neck with Santa Claus: He’s a bunny, and they’re a big attraction with the Brown children. He brings candy and lots of chocolate (without all that walking around that Halloween requires). He hides [...]
Paul’s condition
Monday, March 23rd, 2009On our trip the doctor called to let us know that he needed to talk to us about Paul’s bloodwork. I instantly got worried and wanted to call back but Bill said we should just wait, that everything was fine. We decided to wait until we returned to call back. Today I took Paul in [...]
Hineys Were Frozen Off
Sunday, February 15th, 2009It was a mighty cold day today, so you know what that means… Time for the Brown Family Chapter of the Polar Bear Club to meet and do its annual swim, of course! You may remember that I was the founding member last year. This year’s membership drive swelled the chapter’s ranks to a grand [...]
Lots of Love
Friday, February 6th, 2009“Mwah.” — Paul Said as he kissed a bump on our bathroom wall. Then he laughed. And laughed.
Yeah, We Enhanced
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009I’ve added two little buttons to the top of the left sidebar to improve your 6browns.com experience. We are always vigilant in making things better for our visitors and hope you find them useful.
PDA Update
Monday, January 19th, 2009No, not that PDA. For those of you worried about me after that last entry, I have good news! I have purchased an iPhone 3G. I can hear your sighs of relief from here.
A Mixed Celebration
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Tuesday was a very exciting and special day for the school girls. Their preschool class hosted a Dad’s Night Out where each girl brought her father to school for a nice little party. Since there are two of them, they were allowed to bring their grandfather as well. The build-up to the big day was [...]
Ad-Free
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008I just disabled ads for anyone who leaves (or has left) a comment. Our dear commenters shouldn’t have to see that stuff.
Good to Be Home
Monday, December 8th, 2008The trip to Ethiopia was such an amazing experience. Previously, our international experience was a handful of trips into northern Mexico. Addis Ababa was an eye-opener for us. Sandi’s forthcoming longer entries will likely cover my thoughts as well since we discussed the trip extensively, but here are some of my tired, worn-down thoughts right [...]
Grateful
Thursday, November 27th, 2008I have much to be thankful for this year. Honestly, every year of my adult life has been great even with the ups and downs. My wife and I work very hard at living consciously and deliberately, so I feel like I’ve really earned whatever success and pleasantness I’ve experienced. Here’s a smattering: My wife: [...]
Two Somber Thoughts
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Two more days until we find out the verdict from the Ethiopian court. It seems surreal that some unknown jurist in a far-off land holds such power. Today I’ll share two worries that have us preoccupied: Rescheduled: if that lady who has never met us and only knows of us from a sheaf of papers [...]
Seven Days Remain
Monday, November 10th, 2008Daddy Brown here with seven activities I want to do with Paul (and any one of The Girls that would want to come along): Dig a big hole Look at the stars through a telescope Explore Roosevelt Lake on our boat (don’t have one…yet) Find and explore ghost town ruins Teach him how the world [...]
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