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Monthly Archives: May 2016
A Will
As an adult, there are simply things you HAVE to do. Feed yourself (and hopefully others.) Wear pants while shopping at Walmart. Make a will. Of those, making a will is the most important and most likely not to be … Continue reading →
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Tagged amazing grace, clowns, death, dying, Everest, humor, humour, kilt, last will and testament, passing away, pipers, step-dad, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, Up, walmart, will, wills
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Another First – A Concert
To quote The-prettiest-girl-in-the-world, last Saturday, we’d be ‘getting our culture on.” See, The-Oldest has fallen in love. Not with a girl. No. Not yet, thank God. Nope, he’s fallen in love with music. Like most kids fall in love with … Continue reading →
Posted in Band, Parenting, Piano
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Tagged bach, Beethoven, chopin, classical music, humor, humour, joyce yang, mozart, opera house, orpheum, parenting, schnittke, silvestrov, step-dad, stepdad, stepdaddy, stepdaddying, the oldest, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, vancouver symphony orchestra, vienna, VSO
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First Story Part 2 – How To Write It
So how do you get a 9-year-old to write a story? Sure, it’s hard to get his butt in the chair and actually write, but once there, what does he do? What have they taught him in grade 4? Much … Continue reading →
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Tagged calvin and hobbs, florence, Floyd, how to write a novel, humor, humour, Minecraft, parenting, scott bell, step-dad, stepdad, stepdaddy, stepdaddying, stephen king, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, writing
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His First Story
I’ve missed a lot of kid ‘firsts’. First steps. First tooth. First use of the f-bomb. But this one I’ve managed to see. Last week, The-Youngest wrote his first story. He didn’t do it by choice, however. He didn’t sit … Continue reading →
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Tagged firsts, humor, humour, Minecraft, mom, Robots, step-dad, stepdad, stepdaddy, stepdaddying, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, writing, writing a story
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