Scotty has spent his home field hockey games looking down from above.
His volunteer job for the team is to announce the games so he spends them in the press box looking through binoculars and announcing who scored a goal. Plus plays the national anthem, announces the starting lineups, encourages people to go to the […]
John spends a lot of time playing and thinking about Pokémon. And by a lot, I mean A LOT. He plays Pokémon on his DS, he watches it on TV, when his friends come over they bring their DSs’ and use the wireless feature to trade Pokémon, and we have long, very one sided conversations […]
One of the things I like about cub scouts is that you do things you never had really contemplated before. The latest was sleeping over on a ship. The Display Ship Barry (DD-933) to be exact. It is docked in the Washington Navy Yard and allows groups to sleep over on it.
The Barry is […]
As we sat at “our” sidewalk café Sunday afternoon I pondered whether there was enough in Philadelphia to make a return visit worthwhile. We had spent the morning touring Independence Hall and Franklin Square. The print shop was quite interesting, but the museum was tired although a very good movie gave us a clear picture […]
My travel companions have shrunk to just John. Caroline is at school, Caitlin is working on homework for school, and Scotty feels like he has done enough traveling for one summer and he’d rather stay home and work on projects. But, as always, I need to go somewhere for Labor Day weekend, even if it […]
I had planned on taking John and Calvin to Gettysburg, but Calvin suggested Spaghettisburg so we went there instead. Spaghettisburg is almost exactly like Gettysburg, but there is no attention span requirement and you spend a lot of time outside walking around seeing cool things.
We did make it through the entire movie at the […]
Caitlin has just pulled out of the driveway for her 7:00 am field hockey practice. For some reason you have to be there at 6:30. Now we are used to the requirement for arriving at practice 15 minutes early. Last year’s coach always said, “If you are on-time you are late.”
I think the 15 minute […]