• The following are different answers given by school-age children to the given questions: Why did God make mothers? 1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2 Think about it. It was the best way to get more people. 3. Mostly to clean the house. 4. To help us out of…

  • Well Easter is here and it is dreary as ever outside. Matt is home from the hospital and doing much better. He is moving around better and goes back to school tomorrow. Apparently there was another boy at his school who also had his appendix out last week! Must be in the water. We have…

  • Well we have spent since Wednesday morning at 4 AM in Children’s Medical Center in Dayton. Matt started throwing up around 3 AM and we took him to get checked out. 12 hours later he was minus one appendix. They said we caught it pretty early so he was fine. He had surgery on Wednesday…

  • Narcoleptic birds

    Ok so our bird has been added to the rest of our special needs pets. First – for those who do not know me well – we love animals. We have 3 cats, a toy rat terrier, a Nanday Conure, and about 10000 birds and squirrels in our back yard. Ok so we went a…

  • I hate winter

    I just posted this to one of my friends… Monday I felt great – Matt was home with the flu/cold. Tuesday great. Wednesday ok a little tired but only because I had to get up at 4:30 AM to be in downtown Cincy by 6 (from Dayton). And was a little stuffy. So I come…

  • Ok so I am a very happy camper now. My wife is coming home tonight 🙂 And she is in a really good mood. She said something really special to me the other day. She was talking about her time down in Costa Rica – even her Mom told me I would love it down…

  • Is it Friday yet?

    First I want to say – Happy Birthday Lisa!!!!! Ok so my wife calls last night from San Fran and here is how the conversation went: Wife: Hiya Hotass Me: Hey baby Wife: Can I call? Me: Of course Phone Wife: Hi baby Me: Hey you Wife: So whatcha doing? Me: Just finished the last…

  • my story part two

    She is back home to her parents house again! Yay Phone communication now! I miss her so much! Ok this is what I sent to her last night. The red head stretched one night – tired and weary from the week’s work. Sometimes it seemed like the work was never-ending but she wouldn’t change a…

  • I was very sad this week. My wife has been in Costa Rica since last Friday and I miss her dearly. We have not been able to keep in touch as much as I would like to since her cell phone will not work down there and she has very limited access to phones and…