Today is B’s and my anniversary. Eleven years ago today, I saw the most beautiful woman in the world walk down the aisle towards me. I felt like the luckiest guy in the world knowing that she was there so say "I do" to me and I was more than ready to say "I do" to her.
Sometimes, in the years that follow a wedding, people might find themselves less attracted to their spouse. That hasn’t happened to me. If anything, I’m more attracted to her than on the day we got married. Eleven years ago today, I would have sworn that that would be impossible, but it isn’t.
She is my best friend, my lover, the mother of my children, and I can’t imagine my life without her.
The past couple of days have been slightly warm. If you call over 90 degrees "slightly warm." Personally, I’d call it "holy cow it’s boiling outside!" With a heat wave in progress, we’ll be looking for ways to stay cool this weekend. Trips to the playground are likely out. Instead, we’ll find some indoor activities to keep everyone cool and happy. If we do go outside, perhaps we’ll break out the pool and swimsuits. There’s nothing like splashing in the water to help you cool off.
My Aloha Friday question for today is: How do you stay cool when it’s hot outside?
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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.
NHL is a budding geek. I’m sure of it. He loves superheroes and playing video games. He also likes reading. Although sometimes the prospect of starting a new book seems to overwhelm him, once he’s into a book, he will pour through it until he’s finished with it.
I decided that he was old enough to be introduced to some of the science fiction that I loved growing up. So I found my old copy of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot. I figured this would be good since it is just a collection of short stories. We could read them together and go story by story. NHL liked it, but didn’t want to continue after the second story. I think they were too slow and cerebral for his taste. So I’m on the search for other science fiction and/or fantasy books that would be more his speed.
Meanwhile, I’ve also been thinking about some of the classic movies that I grew up on that he would enjoy. Back To The Future is definitely on the list. I think he’d get a kick out of Marty McFly’s adventures through time. I told him about the trilogy and semi-spoiled it by saying they go to the Old West in the third movie. He suddenly got very interested. (He did ask if they went back to the time of the Dinosaurs. He seemed disappointed that Back To The Jurassic wasn’t one of the movies.)
Beetlejuice was on TV the other night and I loved seeing the Maitland’s try to cope with being dead, the new family in their house and "the ghost with the most" living in their model’s graveyard. Part of me thought that NHL would like this movie, but then I saw the "gory/scary" parts. They aren’t really bad. Nothing approaching "horror movie" level, but just gory enough to scare NHL. (He has this thing about blood.) Perhaps in a few years, he’ll be able to handle it, but not now.
Of course, given his love of video games, I’m definitely going to take NHL to see the video game movie: Wreck-It Ralph. He might not get all of the cameos (like Q-Bert), but this movie definitely looks like it has the right level of geekiness and age appropriateness.
What age appropriate geeky books/movies would you introduce to your child?
NHL is a budding geek. I’m sure of it. He loves superheroes and playing video games. He also likes reading. Although sometimes the prospect of starting a new book seems to overwhelm him, once he’s into a book, he will pour through it until he’s finished with it.
I decided that he was old enough to be introduced to some of the science fiction that I loved growing up. So I found my old copy of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot. I figured this would be good since it is just a collection of short stories. We could read them together and go story by story. NHL liked it, but didn’t want to continue after the second story. I think they were too slow and cerebral for his taste. So I’m on the search for other science fiction and/or fantasy books that would be more his speed.
Meanwhile, I’ve also been thinking about some of the classic movies that I grew up on that he would enjoy. Back To The Future is definitely on the list. I think he’d get a kick out of Marty McFly’s adventures through time. I told him about the trilogy and semi-spoiled it by saying they go to the Old West in the third movie. He suddenly got very interested. (He did ask if they went back to the time of the Dinosaurs. He seemed disappointed that Back To The Jurassic wasn’t one of the movies.)
Beetlejuice was on TV the other night and I loved seeing the Maitland’s try to cope with being dead, the new family in their house and "the ghost with the most" living in their model’s graveyard. Part of me thought that NHL would like this movie, but then I saw the "gory/scary" parts. They aren’t really bad. Nothing approaching "horror movie" level, but just gory enough to scare NHL. (He has this thing about blood.) Perhaps in a few years, he’ll be able to handle it, but not now.
Of course, given his love of video games, I’m definitely going to take NHL to see the video game movie: Wreck-It Ralph. He might not get all of the cameos (like Q-Bert), but this movie definitely looks like it has the right level of geekiness and age appropriateness.
What age appropriate geeky books/movies would you introduce to your child?
