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My Okapis on the phone

Sunday afternoon Gem called Nana so the Okapis could talk to her. In fact, I think Gem pushed the numbers and Elijah actually talked first when Nana answered the phone. I stepped out of the room for a moment and when I came back, Elijah was still intently talking to her, answering her questions, listening […]

Was being 4.5 always this tough?

“Where are you going, Elijah?” I asked my son after he had gone to the bathroom. We were all sitting at the dinner table finishing our meal.
“I’m going upstairs,” he said with a hint of attitude.
“Elijah, we’re still eating dinner. Please come back to the table.”
“But I want to be ALONE!” he screamed at me.
Me, […]

I have something to tell you, Daddy

“Daddy, I have something to tell you,” my little girl said to me last night as she stood up from cuddling next to me while we had read Curious George and the Firefighters.
“What do you have to tell me?”
“I am very, very, very sorry for behaving so badly, Daddy.”
“Well, thank you, Sweetie Girl, but why […]

Everything changes…will I keep up?

One of the things I have tried to do, but feel is essentially impossible to actually get across is to explain to expecting parents that once your child is born EVERYTHING CHANGES. I don’t just mean the way we live our lives, the lack of time, the sense of chaos, the exhaustion. I’m talking about […]

A glorious - yes, glorious! - Monday morning

When I got out of the shower this morning, I heard the little voices of my Okapis playing. It was too early for them to be awake, but they like to wake up whenever they want. I would never set my watch by their sleeping schedule, that’s for sure. I got dressed and Gem and […]

Not more change

“You know, she did it again this morning,” Gem told me over the phone during the day yesterday. “She put her hand over the seat belt so I couldn’t unbuckle her and get her out of the car to go to school.”
“Again? What is going on with her?” It was more of a rhetorical question […]