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Aloha Friday: Parental Drinking Games

August 19, 2011 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Parenting

During NHL’s birthday party, my sister told a story of a trip she, her husband and her kids went on. During the trip, she and her husband tried to keep their children hydrated, but the kids were refusing to drink water. So they tried making it into a little game. This worked well until one of the kids started telling grown-up that their parents played “drinking games” with them.

I began to wonder how a parent drinking game would work. What would the rules be? Take a shot every time Dora, Map or any other Dora the Explorer character repeats themselves? Take a swig anytime you need to yell at your kids to stop fighting? Take another drink anytime you clean a room only to find it messy again 30 seconds later?

Of course, drinking while parenting is probably not the best idea. (Especially if you do shots during Dora the Explorer.) So perhaps you could give yourself “parental drinking game credits” which could be redeemed once the kids are in bed.

My Aloha Friday question is: What rules would you add to the Parental Drinking Game?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #101

Aloha Friday: Celebrations

August 12, 2011 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Birthday, Travel, Vacation

Today is my hundredth Aloha Friday post. This is a cause for a celebration. An even better cause for celebration, though, is that on Sunday we’ll have NHL’s 8th birthday party. Also, on Wednesday, NHL will actually turn 8. Furthermore, later this month, B and I will do something we haven’t done in our 8 years of being parents: Have a vacation with just the two of us.

My 100th Aloha Friday question is: What types of celebrations have you had recently or will you be having soon?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #100

Aloha Friday: Delicious Desserts

August 5, 2011 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Dessert, Food

As I posted yesterday, I had quite the delicious dessert for my birthday dinner. I’m still drooling over the cake-enrobed, ice-creamy, fried deliciousness. Here it is again in case you missed it.

If you’ll excuse me, I need a mop to clean up all of this drool. While I do that, here’s my Aloha Friday question: What desserts make you drool?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #99

Aloha Friday: Techy Frugality

July 29, 2011 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Technology

Though I’m a “techy dad”, I’m also a bit frugal. I don’t buy technology items simply because they exist. Rather, I see if it will be something we will use and whether it is worth the price. For example, I would love to go out and buy an iPad 2. I even feel a bit left out without owning one. However, I just can’t justify spending that kind of money on something that I don’t see the use for. Similarly, we don’t have smart phones as I can’t see spending $30 a month PER PHONE for a data plan. That’s $720 a year that we could use for other things.

(And the fact that I’m posting this days before my birthday isn’t a hint at all. 😉 )

My Aloha Friday question for today is: Is there a piece of technology that you’d love to buy but can’t quite afford?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #98

Aloha Friday: Mish Mash of Feelings

July 22, 2011 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Anniversary, Disney, Marriage, Parenting, Travel, Vacation

Thanks to a bunch of last minute planning, we’ll soon be heading to Disney World. This time, without the kids. This will be our first time to Disney World sans kids since our honeymoon. (Of course, we didn’t have children then, so it was easy to go by ourselves.) In the short time that we’ve come up with the idea for this trip and planned it, I’ve had a weird mixture of emotions.

I feel happy at getting to spend a week with my wife without little guys interrupting. Don’t get me wrong. I love my boys. It’s just that sometimes I want to spend time with my wife. We get very few date nights and even fewer complete nights without kids. Our only “vacation” without the kids was when we went to BlogHer last year. That trip, while fun, was hardly a romantic getaway. We’ve been married for 10 years and we deserve this time to ourselves.

While I’m feeling happy, though, I’m also feeling guilty. After all, the kids love Disney. Since we told them what we’re doing, they’ve alternated between begging to go and accepting it sadly. If we announced tomorrow that it was all a cruel joke and they were coming with us, they’d be the happiest kids in the world.

Along with the guilt is fear. Not just my fear of flying, but fear of the unknown. We’ll be leaving the kids with my parents during the week. My parents have never watched the kids for any length of time. I’m sure they’ll do a good job, but my mind keeps conjuring up scenarios. What if NHL has a panic attack? What if JSL won’t eat anything? What if the boys don’t behave? Every less-than-perfect scenario is playing through my mind and it scares me.

Still, I know that we need this trip. We need time away from the kids. If we don’t get time off to work on us from time to time, the constant stress could negatively impact our marriage. And a negatively impacted marriage is *NOT* going to raise our kids well.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: Have you gone on trips without your kids? If so, have you ever felt this mixture of emotions?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #97

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