The Mouse deserves a new room. She’s been living in the ‘nursery’ since, well, since she belonged in a nursery. She is now approaching 5 1/2. She is in kindergarten. It is beyond time. The Bear got new digs on her 3rd birthday, and the Paris-themed green & purple wallpaper […]
I’m not the only Bogle going to the gym every day! I’m just the only one who gets to shower off the stank afterwards. The girls’ charter school has instituted a new scheduling policy for all kindergarten classes that will have the 5-year-olds partaking in physical education — phys ed, […]
For school-aged children, flip-flop season has drawn to a close. In many households, this means difficult mornings are the new norm as sensory-sensitive kids are made to sock-up five days a week. The Mouse has a serious sock problem. It’s the seams along the toe line. These drive her batty; […]
It’s been a strange trip. Not a long one, not yet, but strange. As a younger man, I had this vague image of the guy I’d one day become — a bit more than the batter up with bases loaded, full count, in the bottom of the ninth, game 7 […]
The wifey’s family reunion was yesterday, in a park near where I grew up. In fact, pavilion #4 was within a stone’s throw from the gruesome fish-hook-in-my-knee-incident of my youth. And no, I’m not 100% over it. The fish hook that is, not the reunion. That was fine enough. Stupidly, […]
The Mrs. has been home all summer. I have yet to discuss why here on OWTK, but sh*t got ugly with her family and as a result my dear wife needed desperately to take a leave from the soul-sucking cubicle farm. That’s the short version. And that’s all you’re getting. […]
I am crazy proficient at many a thing. I can do two loads of laundry from agitate to folding in-between push-mowing the 1/2-acre lawn, running and then emptying the dishwasher, and making the kids a well-balanced lunch spread of freshly cut veggies, homemade egg salad, and applesauce. I’m pretty freakin’ […]
The 2012 London Games Gymnastics All Around Olympic Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas, 2008 All Around Gold Medalist Nastia Liukin, and 2011 World Champion (and the Bear’s fave) Jordyn Wieber, along with many other male & female stars of U.S. Gymnastics will be hitting the road this fall! The 2012 Kellogg’s […]
