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Today was Parent Participation Day at swimming class. That meant I was in the water with the boys and their instructors, instead of up in the bleachers watching. Daniel and Joel wanted to know how I was going to divide my time between them. They’re in different classes, though at the same time and in [...]

We registered Daniel for kindergarten today. He’d been looking forward to going to “his” school all week, and as we were getting ready to go he asked, “How do we get there?” I said we’d walk. “No, I think we should get in the car and drive to school.” It’s 304 meters door-to-door. It’s really [...]

We’ve been trying to teach the boys to tidy up their toys at the end of the day, without much success. Tonight Debbie asked them, commanded them, pleaded with them, and eventually started tidying up herself. She gave up when she realized the boys were untidying faster than she could tidy up. There are three [...]

I took the boys to their swimming lesson tonight, the first time for me this season. They started classes last week, but I was away in California and Debbie took them instead. It’s always a rush on a swimming night, urging the boys to hurry up and eat their dinner, packing a bag with towels, [...]