Until a couple months ago, I had never heard of TOPSoccer.While at River Soccer Club for Beckett’s spring recreational league, Pam ran into a friend who told her about a program dedicated to young athletes with disabilities. I’m assuming her reaction was something along the lines of “no way” because the idea of getting Carson… Read more »

A mean stomach bug worked its way through our house last week and with it came some memorable moments.As is usually the case, one of the kids was first to go down followed by both parents and then the lone remaining individual — the first born — got hit the hardest.Over the course of a… Read more »

Life is so different now than what it was 10 years ago for several reasons, the most obvious being my kids.Pre-children, a Friday night was an opportunity to get together with friends at a local watering hole, travel to spend a weekend with friends elsewhere, going out for dinner or heading to the beach for… Read more »

Whenever I go upstairs, it never fails that my kids need something.A case in point was the other day when from our bedroom I heard Beckett, 8, yell, “Dad, can I have a Jif party?”Since this was a week or so before his eighth birthday, I thought he was referring to some sort of specialty… Read more »

The world of youth sports is an interesting one.Sports are important for kids. They teach many values that cannot be learned in the classroom or at home at a young age, including the importance of teamwork, hard work and commitment. Sports also allow kids to learn how to win and how to lose with grace…. Read more »

Pulling off yard work and other household chores with our sons trying to help is always interesting.A few weekends ago, after being put off all winter, Pam and I went about emptying a shed in our yard in the hopes of being able to throw out or give away half of the contents we never… Read more »

I got some heat on the home front for attending and working the Trump rally Wednesday.Since there is no reason to ever talk politics around our young kids, I have no idea how Beckett formed his opinions of “Thump,” as he called him mistakenly this week. Apparently, some friends have been talking about him in… Read more »

We added a new vehicle to our family last week, and it’s incredibly difficult for me to let my kids in it.At this point, there are a lot of rules about riding in our new Ram truck. There are no feet on the back of the chairs in front of them; no crawling through the… Read more »

One of my pet peeves ended up costing me some money last month.Oftentimes, we are rushing to get out of the house to get here and there. If we have a long ride or I’m feeling particularly nice, I will let the kids bring their electronic devices along for the ride. However, what always has… Read more »

It happened just like that. All of a sudden I am now Dad to my 7-year-old.After spending a weekend day with some neighborhood kids, he woke up the next day asking me this or that with this new and shortened version. It may have just been me, but I think he added some baritone to… Read more »