Jimmy Fallon's Neil Young "Pants On The Ground"

Christmas Eve 2009

Amelia's 2009 Christmas Concert

Enjoy the video of Amelia's 2009 Christmas concert at William H. Barkley MicroSociety

Jonas' 2009 Christmas Concert

Jonas had his Christmas concert this morning (12/16/09) at William H. Barkley MicroSociety. Amelia’s concert is this afternoon, watch for her to be posted tomorrow.

Santa is Watchin

Darling Son: I don’t want resin bran for breakfast!
Mean Papa: I’m sorry that’s what we are having today.
Darling Son: But I want something different!
Mean Papa: Me too, but that’s what WE are having this morning.
Darling Son: Then I’m NOT going to eat!
Mean Papa: Okay, get your coat and gloves on, the bus is coming.
Darling Son: You are the meanest Papa ever!

Is it too early to use “better behave, Santa is watchin?”

Jonas bails himself out of a grounding

This morning Jonas got grounded for giving “push-back” to Sandy and me and lost a trip to see A Christmas Carol in IMAX. After the anger, tears, and tantrums, he offered us a heartfelt apology, then mopes off to his room to serve out his sentence while Sandy and Amelia got ready to go. So now Sandy and I are feeling like maybe we should let him go since he seems truly sorry for his actions, but don’t want him to think an apology will fix extremely poor behavior and there aren’t consequences. As parents how do we remain tuff, fair, and compassionate in this situation? Sandy and I came up with what we think is a reasonable compromise; he would have to use his allowance money to buy a ticket. What do you think? Were we to easy or not tuff enough? How would you handle it?

Hurley's Lunchbox

- Few weeks ago we played a game called Hurley's Lunchbox during a backyard BBQ. Basically everyone picked an emotion from the lunchbox and with one word "dude" had to express it...dude!