This week on planet Earth

This is it, surgery week.  Each of Ethan’s surgeries has come with its challenges.  This time it is that he has to fast for 4 days.  He can have liquids, but I cannot imagine that making much of a difference.
Over the weekend, we took him to Hershey Park.  Today Jenn is taking him to our [...]

Senior Smoothy Buns

We got a dog.  Jenn finally broke and let me get one.  It took 14 years, but I prevailed.  But don’t let her kid you, she loves him too.
His name is Friday, even though we got him on Saturday.  It was Ethan’s idea and we liked it much more than his other suggestion which was [...]

25 Things about Me

 

I could never answer the question:  What do you want to be when you grow up?
I had two reoccurring nightmares as a child.

Jesus is tied to the railroad tracks and I am trying to untie him before the train rolls over him.
Satan is in the sewer drain and drags me by the ankles to hell.

I [...]

In Plain Sight

Ethan has been a bit of a grump since the day after Christmas when he discovered that his Nintendo DS was lost.  The whole family scoured the house looking for the “pacifier.”  No luck.  He had to go to California for a week and quit video games cold turkey.
 
Then today, he was looking for something [...]

Maloney Baloney

This is your gut

Today has been all about meetings, one right after another.  I am sitting at my desk for the first time today.  I need to think about something other than work.  So I blog.
 
We just got a surgery date for Ethan.  He is having a Malone procedure.  Unlike all of his previous surgeries, [...]

A Day In the Life

Yesterday.  Woof! 
 
Yesterday was a mess.  It started at about 12:45am.  Ethan had a bad asthma attack.  He came into our room and was barking.  I went to get his nebulizer, but he did not sound too bad.  By the time I got back to our room, Ethan was having a full on panic attack [...]

Cozy

It is freezing outside, but I have no need to leave the house.  The fireplace is going.  We just lit the advent wreath.  My little family is enjoying our little secure nook on the planet.  Time to settle down with a good book.

4,999,999

Ethan asked Jenn, “Is President Obama going to open a Mario store in Broadlands?”  Somewhat baffeled, Jenn asked him to clarify.
“Well he said he was going to create 5 million jobs and we need a Mario store.”

The Ick Factor…rated G for Gross

Halloween was great…blah blah blah.
 
So this morning, I was doing the “procedure” with my spawn, when the catheter came out of his rear.  This is a bad thing.  Trust me.  One word sums it up spray.
 
Sooooo I was a little grossed out (trust me on this…I am not easily grossed out).  Luckily my wife was [...]

Sunday school *3

Week 3 of Sunday school:  This week is about being thankful.  It is funny how I can be so cynical in adult worship, but so open to God while teaching Sunday school.  In spite of all my negative mutterings on this blog, I am stunned by God’s sustaining my family.  Statistically, I should be divorced [...]