The Pits: The boys always seem to gravitate toward the narrow area of the photo frame that’s directly behind the subjects I’m trying to photograph. The Peaks: I publicized the fact that I have written a book that is available
The Pits: We made the bi-annual trip to Dick’s Sporting Goods for the boys to pick out new shoes. It’s always a grueling event, but it went about as well as expected. They selected the same shoe, just different colors–red
The Pits: It’s hard to see in this photo, but I’m shooting through the back window of Traci’s Pilot. Inside, Weston has his head in his hands, crying. This was after their second playoff game, one they’d lost to the
The Pits: Trek had pooped on the kitchen rug during the night. It was cold for our walk this morning and he had diarrhea so liquidy that it was fruitless to attempt to pick it up with the bag. The
The Pits: Had to spent a good deal of time on a call today while one of our colleagues installed a database backup for us. The Peaks: I left work early to take the boys to flag football practice. It
The Pits: One of our remote machines at work became inaccessible, which caused some problems. The Peaks: It wasn’t apparent to me that the main reason Traci stopped buying Lucky Charms for the boys was because they always ate the
The Pits: The kids used glitter on their homemade Christmas ornaments, which means there’s glitter everywhere now. The Peaks: During our date night on Saturday, Moggi helped the kids make Christmas ornaments. Turner gave me this one and said he’d
The Pits: On our evening trip to the park, small kids kept crowding around Trek and dumping handfuls of mulch on him. Unfortunately, he didn’t bite any of them. The Peaks: We slept in this morning because of our late
The Pits: It’s an oddly long drive out to the Williamson County Soccer Center. The Peaks: Today was our first flag football playoff game. We versed the Patriots and ended up winning 27-8. Our score should’ve been higher, but they
The Pits: The boys were ill-behaved and noisy during our walk. The Peaks: Some small part of me is embarrassed for having identified so much with Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, so I