Tag: raising kids

  • Back to school (2026 edition)

    The kids started school for another year today! Here they are today and in years past. 2025 Here are some pics from past years: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

  • Birthday hat trick

    Birthday hat trick

    Another banger from Vivi featuring Sam’s recent hat trick before his birthday.

  • Back to school (2025 edition)

    Back to school (2025 edition)

    Just realized I forgot to post a back-to-school post per tradition. Here it is!

  • Touchdown!

    Touchdown!

    Vivi (aspiring YouTube creator) has started building her video editing skills by making highlight videos of her brother Sam’s flag football games. I’m super happy that she’s exploring this outlet for her own growth and so that I don’t have to do it (video editing is SO TIME CONSUMING). Go Vivi (and da cats…and Sam…

  • Solving a Rubik’s Cube

    Solving a Rubik’s Cube

    Solving a Rubik’s cube was something I always wanted to know how to do, but had never taken the time to figure out. My son Sam recently got one (a 3×3) and has been obsessed with trying to solve it, so it was finally time to take this seriously.

  • Waiting in carpool

    Waiting in carpool

    Back in the day, I used to spend a lot of time in the car commuting. Now I spend a lot of time waiting in school carpool.

  • Back to school (in the States)

    Back to school (in the States)

    Today was the first day of school!

  • Bacon & Strawberry

    Bacon & Strawberry

    My drawing challenge today was to take the logo my kids created as part of their YouTube brand and digitize it. Yes, my kids aspire to be YouTube celebrities. No, I don’t think this is proof of my failure as a parent (yet).