My oldest son Aiden has been in scouting since he was in second grade. He started in Cub Scouts and continued up through Webelos and ultimately earned his Arrow of Light (the highest award in Cub Scouting). Today he is completing his 1st year as a Boy Scout and last month was elected as the…
So before last weekend, I had never been skiing or snowboarding before. I even included it in my 101 things To Do in 1001 Days. So last weekend I joined Aiden’s Boy Scout Troop on a ski trip to Winterplace, West Virginia. And based on some good advice decided I would try to learn to…
I love Thanksgiving! I find it very easy to recall many wonderful memories of my childhood spent in rich and living color with my family as celebrated this holiday. And every year is a new chance to add to those memories by SHARING the time away from work and school with each other which of…
My son had an interesting assignment in his religion class and like so many other things that I come across I believe there is a lesson in it to be shared. The assignment was to write a paragraph about an unrecognized saint. Someone who they thought embodies the spirit of a saint. This was my…
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” – Friedrich Nietzsche There was a time when if you wanted to research something you had to go to a library. I can easily recall the hours of time…
I was driving the boys to school this morning when we drove by a North Carolina Lottery billboard and we started to talk about “Lucky Numbers”. Aiden said his luck number was 5. I asked if that was because he was born on the 5th, to which he responded no. But really had no real…
So Saturday afternoon we were heading up to our first Durham Bulls game with my Cousin Steve visiting from Toronto. As we were driving on the highway Wesley calls from the back seat of van and says. “Daddy, I know what you call a HOT girl.” There was a moment of disbelief which hung in the…
Last night we took the boys to Picture People for their semi-annual portraits. Afterwards they told us it would be 20 minutes so we decided to walk around the mall and maybe check out the wait to see Santa. Indeed, even on a Friday night, the line for Santa was non-existent. So the boys took…
So the boys and I tokk our bikes to Lake Benson park in Garner, NC. There they have a 1.2 mile paved bike trail that is mostly flat and it’s a great place to ride with the boys. On our second circuit we noticed some people setting up a bunch of white chairs. By the…
So tonight on the way home from Soccer the boys, Aiden and Wesley, were debating what the Chinese language sounded like. Aiden rattles off a string of nonsensical sounds and announces, ” That means ‘let the race begin'”. Wesley counters by making a bunch of whooshing sounds and then informing me, “That means ‘the second…
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