Adventures in Bennionland

Nothing is more frustrating then watching your kids suffer through a cold. They can’t sleep, but they are dog tired. They are hungry but their throats are sore. They want to stop coughing but can’t. They have a steady flow of snot and chapped noses so they don’t want to wipe it away.

Add to it the lack of sleep the parents are getting.

I love my wife and she is going the extra mile taking care of these boys… despite the fact that it looks like she might be catching their cold. I am lucky to have married a woman who is such a wonderful mother. I hope my kids will always know how wonderful their mother is.

My kids are troopers too. Will has tried so hard not to let the cold get him down. Thank goodness for the Hap Palmer movies we got from the library to distract him. Walker is a funny cat. He is just trying so hard to pretend that he isn’t sick….

Here’s to that apple a day…..

It is the first of the year, time for resolutions making, possibly resolution breaking. Maybe you are sitting down to re-evaluate where you are in your life and where you want to be heading. I think we all do that to some extant this time of year. For those of us lucky to be parents our kids often interrupt these heavy thoughts of ours with some of the cutest and most special moments ever. It reminds me that sometimes it is OK to live in the now.

Today my youngest son started calling me Dada. He has been babbling for sometime now and has had some nonsense words that carry meaning like Ba which means Light or Madada means music. But right now if you point to me and ask him who I am he will say Da Da.

So resolutions be damned for right now I am Da Da.