This weekend the Cabana Boy and I took a break. We left the children with my daughter’s day care business and we went out of town. Not far. Just to Pittsburgh. But as far as we were concerned, it was a world away. Not only did we deserve it; our kids deserved it, too. Respite [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’
11 Jul
Bygones
In the past few months, I’ve come to realize that some phases of my life are past. For good. Up until then, it always seemed like every option was open, like back when I was 10, or 18, or 21, or even 25. One day I’d travel the world. One day I’d be President. One [...]
22 Nov
Justice: by the law or by the heart?
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. .. Robert Brault I’ve debated how to write this post for several days, and it’s been difficult. My role as attorney at law is to uphold the law. Most of the time, that also means to pursue justice. Sometimes [...]
7 Dec
(Broken) Home for the holidays
A phenomenon many divorce attorneys encounter each year between mid-November and January 2 is the sudden drop-off of clients and client activity. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the holiday lull, the last-ditch effort to grasp the fast-fading warm feeling of family or at least the rational attempt to try to preserve the illusion that ‘everything [...]
20 Sep
Moving forward
I write a lot about Little Miss and Captain Oblivious, our two autism-diagnosed children. Ditto Boy you hear about less. Talk about middle-child syndrome! Not only is he the middle child, he’s the second boy, AND he’s only ADD. He probably does get lost from time to time. This is an issue that comes to [...]
8 Jul
The Expedition
Each year when the children are gone, we steel ourselves for the ultimate evil–cleaning out the children’s rooms. Of course, they are expected each week to pick their rooms up and keep them neat! But as we have found particularly this year, they have found new sneaky and intricate ways to keep from meeting that [...]
14 Jun
The more, the merrier?
My Seattle daughter is now my Pensacola daughter–or will be Sunday night when she arrives in Florida after spending four days with us, along with her three little ones, ages 7, 5 and 3. She made the trip cross country to see all the “grands” before they get settled into their new home. It had [...]
6 May
Approaching equilibrium
You know, every once in awhile you just hit a real bump in the road. So many of us “manage,” we do the best we can every day as spouses, as parents, to try to keep our fingers in the old dyck for as long as possible. But sooner or later, the water just gets [...]
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