Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 11, 2009


George Anthony weeps during memorial service for Caylee


A memorial service for little Caylee Anthony was held this week. It was a very emotional service, celebrating the very short life of an extraordinarily adorable little girl. The grandparents of Caylee weeped openly, and were overcome several times during the service.

Little Caylee was murdered by her mother several months ago, and her body was found near her home.

Cindy Anthony, Caylee's grandmother, spoke about her sorry-ass murdering daughter by saying, "She (Caylee) got your beauty and your compassion, and she got your spirit."


I'm sorry, did you say "compassion?" This lady has obviously lost it due to her grief. Beating your child to death is NOT compassionate. Hiding your child's dead body, that you just killed in a plastic bag in a water-filled ditch is NOT compassion.

I hope the family finds peace during this time. I hope that Caylee's mom Casey gets her just punishment if indeed she murdered her own child in this manner. I hope that no other child has to endure what it appears this mother did to her own child. I hope.







Thursday, July 31, 2008

The nursing double standard - tit for Tad


Golden Retriever Nurses Tigers

So at a Kansas zoo, a golden retriever has adopted tiger cubs, and is nursing them. Its such a heart-warming story that makes everyone go, "awwwwwwweeee." How cute!!

But there are questions that come to mind:

Will the tigers bark or growl?

Will the males now lift their leg when they pee?

Inquiring minds need to know.

Another story talks about a new trend in breastfeeding. It seems some moms have started "cross-feeding" their kids. That means Susan is now breastfeeding Janet's baby, and vice-versa.

A mom breastfeeding someone else's baby (click for the story) seems gross to some.

Is it a double standard? Should mommy boobies be reserved only for their own babies? Some argue its a natural progression in breastfeeding. Others would say its just icky.

What say you?? <-- your invitation to comment

Thursday, January 10, 2008

How I became "Poopsandwich"

"That Poopsandwich name, thats a little much, aint it boy?"


" I cannot beleive you would select such a disgusting name to be called!"


Well, as is the case so many times, that name has its root in my kids.


To say that a road trip with the entire family is chaos, makes chaos look weak. Its a non-stop barrage of "i'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I need to tinkle," and "(you insert your own whiney turd comment here.)"


Somewhere between Waco and Hillsboro, after 30 straight minutes of whining about stopping at "Lone Star Cafe" in Hillsboro, and then the subsequent denial of such, it became too much.


My next to youngest, G for short, has the temperament of a boxer. She is friendly and basically sweet, but if you poke her with a stick, you will regret it very soon after. After the non-stop at Lone Star Cafe, she demanded a sandwich. At which point, I told her, "well how about a poopsandwich?" "Cause you can poop in one hand, and whine about a sandwich in the other, and see which one gets full faster!" (Good Lord people! Its an hour and 45 minutes to Waco! You are not going to starve!)

G if she was a guy

At the moment I issued the "poopsandwich" comment, the entire car erupted in laughter, well the entire care except me. I was still steaming. Oops, bad choice of words.


So to this day, the word poopsandwich is thrown around in various circumstances, usually followed by big belly laughs. The crazy dad makes another memory. So I thought why not...


I just love internet anonymity ;>)

Monday, January 7, 2008

Pregnancy anyone? How about a Vasectomy?

While reading a blog recently I was reminded of the fear I felt after my wife alerted me to our most recent pregnancy.

My wife is a hotty. Plain and simple. At over 40, she looks better than most women half her age. So its no big surprise that I just can't keep my hands off her. Its been that way most of our marriage.




My Hot Wife - OK, she just looks like Gena Lee








Me and the wife shortly before conception of our last child




But I digress. After she announced the pregnancy of our last child, I fell into a horrible depression. Grad school, meager finances, my surviving on 4-5 hours of sleep each night due to working full time and attending school full time. It just hit me. The next day, after I sobered up, I called a urologist and made an appointment.


He insisted on a "consultation" appointment first. So we could weigh the consequences of permanently damaging the pipes. I insisted that 7 kids was plenty, and that I was looking forward to shooting blanks. That in fact we had agreed to take the wheels off the baby carriage.

So it was, I should come in the next day for the procedure.


Having been in on all the births of my kids, and cutting the cord no less than 4 times, I felt it my god given right (and because i just like to mess with people) to guilt my bride into going into "the room" with me to have the procedure done. It was my finest work, and she was mortified. Although I rejoiced in my work, it would come back to haunt me.

When we arrived the next day, it was the Friday before the Cowboys' Super Bowl (not sure which one). I had been a good patient and taken my pills the doctor had given me to relax. I was majorly stoned. There is just no other way to put it. Having avoided pretty much all drugs for a very long time, these worked thier majic. Not being one to waste a good buzz, I located a ZZ Top CD and my personal CD player and rocked out all the way to the doc's office.




The nurses outfits that dreadful day




To celebrate the Cowboys good fortune, the nurses all wore Cowboys T-shirts and it appeared had gone to someplace that paints blue jeans on you. They were the tightest jeans ever, and left little to the imagination. The prospect of having a hot nurse in skin tight jeans wash Mr Winkie was not an altogether unpleasant thought. I had been married for a very long time, and Mr Winkie had been a one woman Winkie for a very long time. The thought of having another woman touch Mr. Winkie made me dizzy.




Me on the operating table



Well, this is where the tail goes bad, very bad actually.

As it turns out, I was not the only one who had noticed how hot the nurses were in that office. After we had arrived in the operating room, the hottest of the nurses came in to "prep" me for surgery. At this point the wife speaks up and asks the nurse, "you aren't going to wash him? are you?" WHAT?!?!?!? SHUT YOUR BIG MOUTH UP?!?!!?! I thought silently to myself. My Christian sensabilities prevent me from ever cheating on my wife, so my only chance to be touched just vanished before me.


"Well, I was GOING TO" the nurse replied. She left the room and returned with a very annoyed doctor. Apparently, he likes to cut on guys weiners, but prefers not to wash them. He began the wash with a pissed off look at me, right in the eye. He then turned his attention to Mr. Winkie, who had gone from a state just south of excitement, to "cave dweller." He washed my scrotum with such force and verocity (yes, it fits) that I felt compelled to say something, even in my very stoned state.

You know how you tend to talk really loud when you have headphones on?, well I yelled out, "I usually like to wash down there, but I tend to not be that vigorous about it!" I looked up again, to see my wife with her head in her hands, and she appeared to be very white, like she might vomit at any moment. The nurse was bent over the counter laughing uncontrollably. The doctor paused to giggle for a moment, then resumed his torture, but only for a brief moment. At last I was "clean." My nads were already hurting at this point, and nothing had even been cut.





So the surgery begins with a syringe of topical pain killer. He dripped it on my scrotum, and it ran into/onto my rectum. At this point, I felt compelled (I just could not stop talking) to yell, in my best headphones on voice, "AAAUUUGGGGG, my ass is burning!!!" More laughter from the nurse.

Well, the burning didn't last long, and after a few snips, a slight tugging sensation a couple of times, and the smell of burning flesh (since we were sure, we had him coterize the tubes) we were done. The nurse had to help me put my clothes back on because wifey still had her head buried in her hands. She walked me to the front desk, and we were on our way.







My wife taking me home after surgery




I spent the remainder of that day, and half of the next day sitting on bags of ice and popping my pain pills from the good doc. I watched 4 movies, and when I later watched them again, I did not remember seeing them that weekend.

It was a good move and I am glad I did it. It was very liberating.


OK, now you have heard one of my favorite stories.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Beauty and the Geek - my own story


It funny how we can get sucked into a TV show. I spent almost all day Sunday (until 8pm) watching the Beauty and the Geek marathon. The final episode airs Tuesday, and I just may have to watch it. I think its on MTV if you are interested.


Watching the show today made me think of how we process sterotypes. The "beauties" immediately looked down on the "geeks" who they knew nothing about. In return, the geeks felt they were intellectually superior. If you have watched the show you know what happens: geek learns the beauty is pretty on the inside too (most of the time); beauty finds out that the geek really does have alot to offer.



But this is what happens in life. We shut out those who are different than us, mostly to avoid being rejected and then hurt. In reality, we are basically the same. We all want to be loved and accepted. We want to have friends and feel we are important in this life.


I have been on both sides of this dilemma. I have been the skinny kid that got made fun of. And I have been the popular kid that all the girls wanted to go out with. But thats a story for another day.


I remember wanting to be friends with the lovely Cheryl D. in the first grade. I was in love with her, and was fairly sure she was the most beautiful first grader on earth. I never went through that "I hate girls" phase. When she would not return my affections, I tackled her and kissed her right on the mouth, her kicking and screaming all the while. They immediately sent me to the principal's office, where he did his best to refrain from laughing. If that happened today, I would be in alternative school.


Some other time, I will tell you the story of the turkeys and the eagle. But I will tell you the moral of that story: when those who should accept you do not accept you, you will be accepted by whoever will.


Any memories you would like to share?

Friday, November 30, 2007

Live like a rock star

Well I just got back from the Cowboy / Packers game. What a great game! It was as everyone expected. Brett Favre has nerve damage in his arm, and was knocked out of the game.

It was shocking to see how many Packers fans were at the game. I am guessing around one third or more of all attending were Packers fans.

But the real treat for my son, poop jr, was that we got to meet several of the players after the game. In my work, I come into contact with pro football players, and after the game we were allowed into the VIP area and had nice visits with Marion Barber, Bradie James, and at least 6 other Cowboys. Also got to meet Tommy from the Martin show, what a really nice guy he is.

Poop jr was pretty blown away. He was shocked old dad got to live like a rock star. "You got cool friends dad!"

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What have you done that surprised and impressed your kids?