Already? Yes, a mere three days after the amazing weekend adventure it was time again for another flex day adventure with the girl. And it went pretty much as one might expect.
AM : Nap, Play, and Snack Attack
I played the wise old dad in this morning’s episode and put Claire into a [...]

Double Jeopardy: Karin, away for a couple days of work retreat in Canmore, switched me flex days so my “Wednesday Daddy Day” promptly morphed into “Friday (Plus) Daddy Weekend.” Yes, a long weekend. But, a long weekend as a single parent. Claire’s first night away from her mom — and she get’s two [...]

Something we’ve known for a while is that Karin is off on a work retreat, out of town, this coming weekend. The short of the story is that Claire and I are spending three days (counting Friday) on our very own. It will be Claire’s first night away from her mom, and she’s [...]

It may be noted that I’ve not been writing much here lately.  I’ve been busy with a variety of things, not the least important both (a) a certain little girl’s birthday preparation, and (b) a slow, painful recovery from (a now confirmed diagnosis of) food poisoning.  I recommend the former, but stay away from the [...]

To Claire,
On the occasion of your first birthday.
So. Here it is. You’re one year old today, a Monday, and you and I are lucky enough to have spent the day together. Just us. Without mom. We visited the toy store and the library, and you were quite angry with me when I [...]

Karin is back at work. Claire spends three days a week at a day home with other kids. We’re closing in on autumn, and as the weather is cooling, the girl’s first birthday is rapidly approaching. And to top it all off I am now officially on flex-time, the calculated management of my [...]

With only a couple weeks to go before I settle into my new flexi-schedule at work and drop down to a four-day-per-week long-hours plan so Claire and I get a day together without Karin, I was thinking I should add a new series to the blog chronicling those sure-to-be fleeting days spent with the girl. [...]

The girl seems to have learned a new trick.
The scenario? We keep her clean bibs in a small tub on the floor of the pantry. When it’s time to eat, one of us walks over to the pantry, opens it up, and pulls out a new bib. Claire, smile on her [...]

Assisting dad with his Saturday morning coffee addiction by causing him to tip his long-anticipated morning brew all over the living room floor as he lunges to prevent you from grabbing it just moments before realizing that he could really use three hands in this parenting gig.
Baffling dad with your never ending chatter and babbling, [...]

So…. quick poll. What’s worse: your dad not only ignoring you, but pausing to take pictures of you as you are miserable and crying — or that he posts them on the Internet for all to see?

Some day I’m sure I’ll have some explaining to do. Until then, well, lets just say the [...]

The sevens are colliding. Seven years blogging, and now Claire celebrates her seven-month birthday — today. And I, work canceled due to the blizzard, get to spend the non-occasion with her.
We just finished the breakfast routine, a detail I usually miss save for the weekends. Over this past weekend I spent an [...]

For those sipping on the few and far between bits of information that leak from random sources regarding the post-sixth month development of our daughter, there is likely to be some disappointment. Admittedly, I’ve been somewhat weak in blogging the mundane, and my presence on the usual social networks over the past month has [...]