Pitch Man – The next Billy Mays?

The family was sitting at the kitchen eating a wonderful Spaghetti dinner.  In the process, someone was bound to splatter sauce on their shirt . . . it was more of a question of “when” not “if”.  Wouldn’t you know it . . . it was Dad.   Just then Ben jumped into the conversation: Dad:  *looking down at the spaghetti spot on his shirt* Mom:  Nice Ben:  Mom, I know you...

How’s my hair?

After a recent haircut trip with Benjamin, we started to walk to the other end of the strip mall to meet up with Mommy and Andrew.  It was a little bit of a walk so we started with some miscellaneous chit chat.  To fill in some more time, I decided to ask Ben about my hair . . . this is how the conversation went: Dad:  Ben, does daddy’s haircut look good? Ben:  If I said no, would you feel...

Patience…

Another classic from Ben…we were running a bit behind last week, after swimming lessons and needing to get some dinner and run some errands, so my patience was running thin with “special” drivers and red lights. Ben and Andrew were busy telling Jeff and me stories the whole drive to the restaurant. Getting a slight headache and annoyed with the driver in front of me when I missed the...

Dad says . . .

I wish we had a chance to record this so you could have heard it rather than read about it.  I’ll do my best to describe it . . . In the morning, Ben and Andrew were hanging out in their bedroom.  They were bored so decided to make a fort out of their blankets on the bunk bed.  Proud of their efforts, Andrew came in to tell Mom and Dad about it.  From a previous experience, Dad was a bit nervous...