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Sunday 13 November

    Heidi's new job! (15:28) - Heidi started her new job today, working as a bagger at the local food mart. The poor kid came out of the store thirsty, tired and sore. This is her first real experience in the working world. Fortunately she has... | 1 Comments

Sunday 21 August

    Road trip! (05:52) - Yesterday Cassie and I took Billy to RPI (Renselaer Polytechnical Institute in troy New York) where he'll be attending college. We left at 6:00 AM. Previously when Cassie took Billy up for orientation they went via the Mapquest directions which... | 3 Comments

Saturday 16 July

    Home Alone (almost) (12:56) - Cassie and Billy left Thursday afternoon for RPI (Renseler Polytech Institute) in New York for an orientation. Billy will be attending this college in August. This left me and the girls to fend for ourselves for a few days, and... | 1 Comments

Sunday 19 June

    Happy Father's Day! (23:07) - Happy Father's Day to all you dads and soon to be dads and wannabe dads! I've had a very nice day today. I woke up at 5:30 this morning, a lot earlier than I wanted to. Made some coffee and... | 3 Comments

Monday 9 May

    To all Mothers everywhere (03:24) - To all Mothers everywhere, especially my own. A Mother's Love There is no love, like a mother's love, no stronger bond on earth... like the precious bond that comes from God, to a mother, when she gives birth. A mother's...

Sunday 24 April

    Heidi won Best in show for this (02:20) - Heidi's school entered in an art contest for Deborah Heart and Lung and Heidi won best in show! This picture simply does not do the original justice. She is quite an artist! [composed and posted with ecto]... | 4 Comments

Saturday 16 April

    Who do we believe? (06:33) - The other day, after coming home from a stressful day at work, Cassie informed me that Billy was missing six dollars of candy (Billy is doing a fund raiser, to raise money for his robotics club at school). This isn't... | 1 Comments

Sunday 10 April

    Home Alone! (13:25) - Billy has been accepted to a few good colleges; RIT, Georgia Tech and RPI. Cassie left Friday night with the kids to go visit RPI in New York. I stayed home to keep an eye on the pets. Oh! and... | 2 Comments

Thursday 17 March

    Irish prayer and blessings (19:44) - I started a new Tradition today. After thanking God for our food, I read this little Irish prayer and these blessings to my family. Cassie and the kids are predominantly Irish, with a smattering of Norwegian and German thrown in....

Tuesday 1 February

    The battle of the bulge! (08:09) - Our whole family is trying to get in shape, lose weight and stay healthy. This morning I was engaged in a different battle of sorts. Cassie was up late babysitting our grandson Tomas, so I agreed to get up at...

Thursday 13 January

    Heidi Land (12:59) - In our house there are many different worlds. There is the Land of Ted and Cassie, adults, parents, husband and wife, where we put each other and the children before ourselves. We work hard to provide for our family and... | 2 Comments

Friday 24 December

    What a great solution to the naughty or nice dilema! (09:40) - Cassie and I have the same problem with our children at times. We have faced the same situations, with the same disciplines and the same results. Most of the time they are good, but every so often they can try...

Monday 6 December

    I love my kids! (21:44) - I really do! Even when they do their best to make Cassie and I crazy. I understand that their job as teenagers is to disrupt the household, to make a mess as often as they can. To need us to... | 2 Comments

Thursday 25 November

Monday 11 October

    What is wrong with her! (08:10) - Yesterday we took the kids to the movies. They went to see Shark Tales and Cassie and I saw Ladder 49. We were all in a great mood, everyone having enjoyed the movies. Next we had to take Kristin to... | 2 Comments