This has been an exciting year for the Zohner family. Like most years, it started on January 1st and will end on December 31st since the so-called Mayan experts were wrong. Since I’ve received complaints that I haven’t been so good about blogging this year, I figured that it was time to dust off the blog and give everyone an update on how our year has gone. Let’s start with Lincoln… Read the rest......

Normally, I don’t get too into Halloween.  Yeah, I enjoy carving pumpkins and eating candy but I like knives and I’m fat so neither one of those should come as a big surprise.  I’ve always thought of it as kind of a stupid holiday derived from pagan celebrations for the dead taken over by confectioners and whoever makes costumes with the word “sexy” in them, i.e. “sexy pirate”, “sexy...

Well, another school year is underway.  Emma is now in fifth grade, Alex is in first, and Hannah has started kindergarten.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there to send them off, but Holly walked to school with them and made sure that they found their teachers without any problems. Yesterday when I came home from work, I made sure that I asked each one of the kids what their favorite part of the day was.  Alex liked lunch.  He...

For some reason, Holly thought that it would be a good idea to teach Alex how to play chess.  Apparently she taught him too well because he ended up winning.  Not bad for a kid of six. I was at work at the time so I wasn’t able to see Holly and Alex play their game of chess, but I imagine that the conversation that took place as he was winning went something like this: Holly: You can move that piece there or that one there. Alex:...

A few months ago, Holly had decided that we needed to go on a camping trip over the 24th of July weekend.  I had Friday the 23rd off and she didn’t work at all that weekend so she thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get away.  For reasons that I can’t seem to remember at the moment, the camping trip for the 24th got moved up a few weeks leaving us with a three-day weekend full of nothing to do.  Sure, there are...