Post the First -- What This is About

Okay, everybody has a blog. I've got one friend who has two blogs. I'm sure there are people out there who have more than two. But I don't have any. I've tried using Twitter. Hate it. Way too much noise for way too little signal (although I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there who think the same thing about the Intarweb in general).

I started in on a blog a long time ago, but I don't remember what I possibly could have written about. And that is the problem with a blog. As I mentioned to my two-blog-having friend, I'd love to write a blog if I had something to blog about. Then I promptly forgot about the conversation.

Now we pick up the story this morning. As my wife (who isn't running amok, by the way) and I drove to church, she pointed out that I have two really cool kids and quite a bit of stuff happens around here. A lot of it is conversation. I'm not one of those dads whose stock answer is "go ask your mother." It is, in fact, quite the opposite. If my kids foolishly ask me a question, they're most likely going to get an answer that falls into one of the following two categories:

• Silly answers for silly questions. For example: "Dad, are we all going to the restaurant?" --asked during the walk to the Big Silver Bus and right after the kids' miniature impromptu celebration about our big night at Red Robin. Answer: "Well, I'm going to the restaurant, and Mom is going to the restaurant, but you and your brother will be sitting in the car and staring at each other."
• Waaay too much information: For example: we were in the aforementioned Big Silver Bus the other evening and my daughter asked me: "Dad, how fast are you going to go? Four or five?". The question came about because she was watching the tachometer and couldn't understand it. By the time we got where we were going, 20 minutes later, the kids had received an education not only about what a tachometer does, but also about what a transmission does and why a car can go in reverse or sit at a stop light with the engine running. My wife's quip toward the end of my lecture: "Well kids, that's your science class for the week!"
  

I guess the point here is that I love my kids. I love teasing them and I love teaching them. I enjoy answering questions when I know something about the subject and I love looking it up when I don't. This blog will be about the things that we do and the things that we talk about.

I'll also blog from time to time about stuff I've cooked for the family, places we've gone, places we haven't gone and funny things that we all do.

One day I hope to take all of my answers to all of their (non-silly) questions and bind 'em all up in a book. And maybe a cookbook. And maybe a memoir...