Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I know April is supposed to be the cruelest month, but for my kids (and somewhat for me and J), May is shaping up to be a doozy. On Sunday...

I was emailing with Lisa yesterday about life.  She had written a post about how it feels like life is just a series of fighting the same f...

Yesterday morning the weather was kind of crappy and cold, so rather than look to outdoor outings to entertain the kids, we decided to go to...

I started a new blog just for my fitness and coaching stuff .  I'm over there today (with challenges! and prizes!) so feel free to check...

I was bouncing Josie on the bed the other day - holding her hands to help her achieve greater height - as she giggled and smiled at me and s...

I'm coming down from the high of Passover.  Maybe a little bit of a Manischewitz buzz.  A little overstuffed with brisket, haroset , ho...

Yesterday, within a span of about half an hour, Zeke: tasted something I had offered him, decided he didn't like it, and "wiped...

I'm putting the kids in the car to take them to school.  As I'm buckling Josie in, I'm saying to Zeke, "come on, sweetie, h...

I've mentioned more than once my fondness for exercise programs like P90X and Insanity and TurboJam and a few others, all by a fitness c...

As I said, I'm generally not creative enough to come up with worthy April Fool's gags.  Nor do I usually even remember it is April ...

I've always been one to admire April Fool's Day from afar.  I was never able to come up with anything clever enough to make a worthy...

Today was our first parent-teacher conference for the kids.  I don't know why, but I was terrified. Not about Josie, who is a total ro...

Yesterday I went and got a 90 minute massage.  It had been a few months since I had one and I had some Groupon deals in the bank, so J agre...

Snow day! -- Tomorrow Zeke and I are off to ski, just the two of us.  J's got a bad back and can't snowboard without great discomfor...

Weekday mornings are pretty mundane and repetitive.  I get up, exercise, have some breakfast and coffee, get the kids up, get them dressed, ...

As I mentioned about a month ago , I'm back on the exercise wagon. I tend to do that.  Go off and on, I mean.  And when I'm on it,...

 What is it with this guy?  Josie has discovered Elmo.  Zeke went through a big Elmo kick when he was her age , but as crazy for th...

Zeke and I have this thing we do when we go to the park.  I push him on the swings and he sings "Old MacDonald," but instead of an...

I was sitting at my desk at work when I got the call.  I think it was around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, Denver time.  It was my dad. "E...

We've gotten into a nice routine in the afternoons.  The weather has been so glorious -- upper 60s to mid 70s -- that J picks the kids u...