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Liam on love

On: December 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm | Number of Comments » 0

Liam picks up phrases and sticks to them for weeks, months, whatever suits his need. The latest:
Liam: Mom, I’m not letting you off the hook.
Me: (Cringing because the worst of Liam’s phrases are him playing back my own less-than-loving lines from when I am grumpy or annoyed) Not letting me off the hook how Liam?
Liam: [...]


aidan on being the best

On: December 7th, 2008 at 11:27 am | Number of Comments » 0

So here’s a fairly recent “Aidan-ism.” In the context of discussing how some kids are really great at some things and some kids aren’t, Aidan explained:
“It is not always the best to be the best. Yeah, because if you are the best all the time, you might not get taught anything.”
I thought it was a [...]


thinking of James Kim

On: December 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm | Number of Comments » 0

What a tremendous Thanksgiving we just had — a house full of amazing people, beautiful food, and lots of laughter. Really couldn’t have asked for more. I mean it.
Lucky. That’s how I feel, because every year at this time I think about James Kim and his family, who took a Thankgiving trek to the Pacific [...]


springville summer trip

On: August 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 am | Number of Comments » 1

The guys and I spent the first part of the summer in my home town of Springville, CA. It’s a speck of town in the southern sierras with a population of barely over 1,000 folks — and I do mean folks. What fun to go back to the place and see it through the eyes [...]


Start Walking

On: April 24th, 2008 at 10:51 am | Number of Comments » 0

Liam runs runs runs everywhere now but how did it all begin?