Number 4 has had a cough for a little over a week now and I haven’t thought much of it. I have been treating the symptoms and just waiting for it to run its course. Then the other night I was discussing the day with my wife when I brought up his cough and what we have been doing to give him some relief and I went into my health plan with her. At that point she asked if I could call the doctor and make sure there wasn’t something else that could be done for him. After year

I don’t like surprises. There I said it. I think it relates to my “control” tendencies I have talked about in the past. When Kori and I were in high school, she had planned a surprise for my 16thbirthday(yes we have known each other that long!). This was before cell phones, text messaging and other stealth ways to keep things secret. One day I was over at Kori’s family’s house and there was an invitation for a party left out on the counter. Of course I read it! Surprise

I looked up in the dictionary and also the urban dictionary the definition of hooky and really all I found was “truant from school” as definitions. I went further and asked Google the origin of the word. It dates back to 1848 and is closely related to “on one’s own hook.” That could be described as making your own decisions. Another definition relates the word “hook” to escaping. So when you are “playing hooky,” you are escaping school. I hope you feel like you have lear

On Wednesday of this week, our school district called off school for incredibly low wind chill factors. I totally get is as I wouldn’t my child out in that weather for any length of time. I can only imagine what it would be like for kids that had to wait for a bus in that kind of cold. Although I still have Number 4 at home with me, I find myself missing our old snow days when I had all the kids home with me. I was fortunate that my wife would brave any kind of weather to