Posts Tagged "day"

First day of school

Posted by Dad on Aug 23, 2010 in Family, The Blog | 0 comments

Ah, the first day back to school!

Separation anxiety, nerves, excitement, the groggy start… the first day back.

Hopefulness, fear, anticipation, dread, resignation… what a day!

But, it’s 11:30 am and I’m all better now…

…I hope you dads are also feeling better by now.

Oh, by the way, my kids were fine this morning.

All the best

Day trip – guess where I went

Posted by Dad on Apr 6, 2008 in Family, Travel | 2 comments

It was a great Sunday. We took a little day trip.  Guess where we went!

Thief ruins a little girl’s day

Posted by Dad on Mar 25, 2008 in The Blog | 2 comments

Yesterday, the wife took my daughter and her best friend to soccer practice. The girls practice at a local public park at 4 p.m. It’s a big open place in the middle of the city.

As the girls are off for spring break, the best friend came over to the house earlier for some play time. She brought her pink Nintendo DS lite, her pink iPod Nano, some games and her life’s savings ($80). They had a grand time.
As they pulled into the park and got ready to dash out to the field, the best friend left all of her things on the backseat of the wife’s car. A few minutes later, she runs up to the wife and asks her to go to the car to get her water that she forgot. The wife goes back in a hurry and forgets to lock the car when she returns.

Sure enough, when practice was over and they returned to the car, the best friend’s possessions were gone. There is some thief out there with a bunch of pink electronics and some cash.

The best friend is very shaken up and upset. We felt awful.  It’s a horrible feeling when someone violates your privacy like that.  The wife is also very upset that some stranger was in our car.

My daughter too was very shaken up. She felt terrible for her friend and told us she wanted to use her money (it’s earning interest in the bank) to replace some of the items that were stolen. This warmed my heart. Of course, I wasn’t about to let her do that. So, when I got home from work, off I went to Best Buy. Four hundred dollars later, the best friend has replaced some of what she lost. Unfortunately, money won’t buy back her innocence.  She now knows that there are bad people out there and she isn’t completely safe from them.

“Thief, yesterday you made off with a lot more than some possessions. I truly hope that one day you realize the damage you’ve done!“

All the best