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Some memories we thought of tonight:
LaGrande: We moved to our new house in Auburn! (More to come on that.)
TheDaddy: Establishing the recumbent record riding across Washington.
TheMommy: seeing TheMermaids on stage together in Shrek Jr.
TheWeeOne: My Birthday!

We saw the Grand Canyon, the largest tree in the world, gained a teenager, lost some good neighbors, teamed up to become the first recumbent to finish TheHooDoo 500, visited and played with grandparents, made another movie, and continued learning how to be a functioning family.

Here’s to another great year, more adventures, a sprinkling of relaxation, old friends, and new ones too.

Well, that certainly puts a twist on the holidays.

Go Hawks!

After getting home late tonight, tired, and hungry I yelled at the dog, clapped over-loud at The Mermaids

GET TO BED!

and finally grumped down to read some news.
One human interest story finished my night. It was about Richard Sherman, just a few days away from the Super Bowl, announcing that he’ll be a dad any day now.
He mentioned what he’ll do, how he’ll teach his son respect, and how to be an upstanding citizen.

That was nice.

I got up and made to turn off the lights and I see a note…arghhh!…on the table.

I told her YESTERDAY I would help!

So I sit. Its 10:00-late , the only sound is the endless pacing of a clock, and I make glass slippers for my littlest Mermaid (and her doll).

I didn’t even think that I could.

This is also what Dad’s do.

Making coffee this morning and TheWeeOne offered to help by swiping out the loose grounds from the grinder.
I said ‘no thanks’ because I didn’t think she’d like to have that coffee smell on her.

Here, I’ll show you

I wiped the grounds out with my hand, quickly rubbed the grits between my fingers and thumb and offered them to her to smell.

See?
[sniffff]
Nahh, I can’t tell over the smell of your Daddy fingers.

TheWeeOne, sitting and focussed in the back seat

Hey daddy?
Yeah.
You know how Halo is like a game?
Uhhhh, yeah?
That’s what pickin’ scabs is like for me – it’s like a game!
(What the??!) OK – What?
You know, because it’s fun and, like, I want to get to the next level.

I’ve got nothing.

Just a short little parable about knowing thine strengths.

If you know about fixing bikes, or licking slugs, or chopping wood, or say, touching up April fools day pictures – that’s great.

Don’t think that these wee tidbits of trivia somehow automatically entitle you to just go off the reservation when executing at mealtime.

He said to ‘wrap the yams in tinfoil’ and just throw them on the coals for about an hour!
Yes, he said “coals” and I’m telling you, coals have different properties for cooking than wood fires. You can’t just expect…
Psssssh – whatever, it’ll be fine; I’ve got it handled.

Surreptitiously, I reduced the total time on the wood fire to 45 minutes – no problem.

I can report that the spoonful in the middle is quite tasty.

Moral: We have partners, in life, for a reason – it is foolish to casually discount their strengths.

Today was just a good, fly by the seat of your pants Father’s Day.
We got up to watch Switzerland play (and win in the last minute) against Ecuador in the World Cup opening round. We had breakfast with some friends during that cap and then TheMermaids and I headed out for a movie marathon.
Beginning with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, then Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and capped with How to Train Your Dragon 2.

I suppose that makes it a day of sequels; sorta like Father’s Day and what it represents, another day in a sequence of exciting adventures with obligatory bumps and bruises and cheering and stories and plot twists and pride and anger and fart jokes and LOTS of one liners that sometimes only I laugh at.

Thanks to TheMermaids for putting up with me and my sequels.