Browsing all posts from December, 2008.

Togetheritis

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It’s Christmas break at Preschool. Greg is off work. Its even too cold for the dog to go out for very long. We are having ourselves some real family time. Lots of good ‘ole family time. Its the kind of family time where you loop the Baby Einstein video during every wakeful moment to keep [...]

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Clarification

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Merry Christmas From The Hawkins Family First of all… This is a late, cheap, unoriginal Christmas E-Card. Please consider it the heartfelt gesture of love I truly intended to post a few days ago… I love you all dearly and have had more fun this year blogging than you can imagine. And for the clarification… [...]

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Landfills

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All I want to do is clean the [stupid] floors because they are covered with torn up bits of toilet paper [and dog hair] that two chubby hands are pushing around with a yellow bulldozer. “Toby, please clean up this mess!” Toby is outraged. “It is NOT a mess, it is a landfill!” but I [...]

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William Runs The White Rock

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I don’t post about running very often because most of my friends would rather gouge a stick into their eye than cover any distance on foot, but every so often I feel it necessary to justify my blog title. I almost didn’t get into the race because I procrastinated and they sold out of bib [...]

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Booger-Nose and Poopy-Pants

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Booger-nose is running through the house with a yellow yard stick, swinging it around like he is a ninja. Oh wait… no, he’s a railroad crossing and a train is coming. He grasps the yard stick end with both hands and down it goes, “ding, ding, ding”. It is just so exciting that I must [...]

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The Funniest Thing Toby Ever Said

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I am re-posting this story from early summer for Kim’s Favorites Party. It is my all-time favorite post. “The Girl Next Door” Actually, she lives down the street. I am not sure what manner of charms she imposed on Toby or if it is just her gloriously shiny blond hair, but he has suddenly become [...]

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The Gift

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When I was seventeen I went to Honduras during Spring Break. Our group flew from Oklahoma City to Houston, then took an International flight to Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital city. From there we drove hours to a small town in the foothills. We drove hours more in All Terrain Vehicles up twisty, bumpy, wet mountain [...]

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