SAHDism

Category: Anecdotes

  • Overthinking Things

    The kids started asking me riddles that they had learned in a joke book.  It was clear that I was in a different state of mind than the kids… Child: Daddy, what can you eat, but not for dinner? Dad: Your words. Child: Um, no. The answer is ‘lunch.’   Child: What can be served,…

  • Fun on the Farm

    We have been having many day trips to visit various parts of New Zealand and we try to find learning opportunities in them.  We learn about birds, habitat, electricity, fluid mechanics.  Fun stuff.  Then, while driving by one of the numerous paddocks where cows are grazing, we hear a squawk of delight from the back.…

  • The Bitter Aftertaste

    The kids are excited for my wife to come home in the morning after working a night shift.  They want her to make them breakfast as they all hang around for an hour of social time. As with most of us, some mornings are less perfect than others for my kids.  And sometimes parents don’t…

  • A Moment of Inspiration

    It’s early morning and I’m organizing the kids’ school lessons for the day while the house is blissfully quiet. (Side note, quiet is only blissful in the context that the house will filled with ear-splitting noise in a couple of hours, otherwise, the quiet would be depressing).) While preparing, I flash back to a memory…

  • Maybe Don’t Sign Your Name Next Time

    Got the stretch washed for the first time in years. We can now see clearly the writing etched with a stick in the hood. Someday soon my child, whose name begins with H A R, as shown in Exhibit A, will get smart and write something other than his name, and then we are in…

  • A Shitty Way to Sell a Home

    …so one of my other kids didn’t want to be outdone apparently. Last weekend I was at our house mowing the lawn and keeping up the yard so it looks nice for showing (we are selling it). Said child has to do some business so I take him inside to one of the pristine bathrooms…

  • Trapping The Kids Before They Wake Mommy

    …so one weekend morning, I wanted to run out and get some ingredients to make a nice big breakfast but I needed to ensure Michele Lynn Sequeira could stay sleeping since she worked the evening shift the night before. How to prevent the kids from coming in and waking her up? A honey-trap! In Photo…

  • Anatomy of a Shitty Night’s Sleep

    We’re here in Sunriver, Oregon, for a family vacation and, unlike our other vacations here, we are sharing the house with my inlaws and thus Team Sequeira is contained to one room so that we can fit all of us in the house.  It should work fine as we have a full size bed and…

  • My Life, the Fairy-Tale

    My life is sometimes a fairy-tale. Unfortunately, that fairy-tale is entitled, “Baldylocks and the Three Boors” … Once upon a time, there was a kindly old soul named Baldylocks and he had three boors. Every morning, Baldylocks woke up to make breakfast for the three boors. The first boor complained, “My oatmeal is TOO HOT…

  • A Perfect Place to Lose Something

    …so it’s been a rather unpleasant week with sick (and grouchy) children coupled with an ant problem that required rearranging the house to help address that issue.  With all the disarray, I’ve been misplacing things like my phone, wallet, and computer, which really drives me nuts because I try to be diligent about putting things…