Donuts With Dads

Yesterday was a big day for Pookie. Her second grade class was holding a special event–Donuts With Dads. It’s an annual thing, so I’ve known about it for a while, and I gotta say, I was more than a little curious about how it would go down. After all, her real dad lives right here in [...]

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Get Real

Lovie and I got married in 2006. She was a thirty-seven-year-old single mom to Pookie, and I was a thirty-six-year-old, semi-professional bachelor. Despite our relatively advanced age, we knew before we even tied the knot that we wanted to have a child together. A child, mind you. At least that was my thinking. Lovie thought [...]

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The Good, the Bad, and the Snuggie

Okay. So the Christmas season of 2009 is officially in the books. Here’s a little recap of how the holiday went down in our neck of the woods via something I like to call The Good, the Bad, and the Snuggie. It’s important to note that potty training is alive and well in our house. In [...]

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Instant Classic

Okay, let’s see here…Lovie? Check. (Don’t let the near-perfect smile fool you. She’s barely holding it together, but Lovie’s still a check.) Alright…Pookie? Check. A, B, and C? Check. Bald spot? Check. Meltdowns? That’s a check and a double check thanks to both A and C. Look of fear? Yup. B’s got that covered. Check. Santa? Santa? Uh [...]

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Twas the Night Before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas, and we’ve come to grips With life that is crazy and laden with trips. But not ones to islands, or Vegas, or Rome. ‘Cuz our trips are little and mess up our home. It all started quickly, too sudden it seemed, When I fell in love with the girl of [...]

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Ashton Kutcher, Alyssa Milano, Twitter, The Triplets & Me

So perhaps you’ve heard of one Ashton Kutcher,  actor-hearthrob,  Mr. Demi Moore, fellow stepdad, new media magnate, and Twitter force of nature. Well, to my great surprise, he’s heard of me. Or at least, he somehow ran across one of my You Tube videos – one depicting a night I spent solo parenting the triplets [...]

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A Very Triplet Thanksgiving: To Host or Not to Host?

Caroline and I decided to host Thanksgiving this year. It didn’t go that well. It turns out that preparing such an all-encompassing meal with three cranky two-year-olds constantly vying for attention isn’t easy. In fact it’s hard, not to mention noisy. To get everything done, we had to (temporarily) blow off our needy trio, which [...]

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Tales From the Trips – A Slideshow

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