Brayden says: Dad’s current occupation:  “Being in the Air Force” His dream job would be:  “Flying a plane or baseball player” What expression does he use — way too often?  “Well, he sleeps too much, for one.” What’s the last thing you two did together?  “Heart to heart conversation” What piece of clothing should he [...]

Ok, I don’t normally like to be all Braggy McBraggypants about my kids and the wonderful things they do because quite frankly, its much more fun to tell you about their faults and fallacies and to make fun of the way they butcher the English language on a regular basis.  What is the point of [...]

Blaine hates grocery shopping.  Hates it with the intensity of a thousand burning suns.   It has been understood from day one of our marriage that the grocery store, and all parts leading up to it … the meal plans, the grocery list, the coupons …. is *MY* domain.  He’ll go, grudgingly, if I ask.  If [...]

You know how they say 90% of people consider themselves to be “above average” drivers, but really, if you do the math, there’s no way that could be true.  Because if average is 50, then there can only be 49% who are technically above average, which means the other 49% are below average.  Right?  So [...]

Blaine:  “Do you think you could get me some shirts for casual Fridays?  I don’t need to wear long sleeve shirts and ties on those days and I only have a few.” Kristie:  “Sure.  You mean, like, short sleeve sports shirts?  With collars, and three buttons?  To wear with khakis?   That kind of shirt?” Blaine:  [...]

I am fortunate that I can get away on a quasi-regular basis, whether it be to visit friends, scrapbook, or whatever floats my boat.  I freely acknowledge that the only reason I can is because Blaine is so very capable of holding down the fort in my absence.  Not only does he hold down the [...]

Kristie: So I was at Wal-Mart yesterday* and I noticed they have some good-sized fire and water-proof safes like we were talking about getting. You know, since I’ve got our small one filled up with photo cds and the one with the “important papers” really isn’t anything more than a metal box. What do you [...]

Kristie: Hey, thanks for washing the sheets and making the bed before I got home. It was nice to climb into fresh clean sheets last night. Blaine: That’s ok. I sort of had to wash them because I got Ben-Gay all over them. Kristie: Ben-Gay? Why? Blaine: Well, this change in weather really bothers the [...]