Blog topic

Parenting

Camping

· Parenting, Writing

First off, I’ve made another executive decision concerning this blog… all entries will be time stamped with CST, no matter what time zone I’m in. For example, it’s actually 10:24 PM where I am, but this entry is marked as 9:24 PM. This was our…

Read more »

Calgary!

· Parenting, Writing

Ahh, what a day. The kids (and I) spent a night in the tent. It took them a LONG while to fall asleep, at least a couple of hours. I found myself getting more and more upset with them. Finally, I basically gave up, and…

Read more »

A busy day with the boys

· Parenting, Writing

Well, what can I say. Marnie had a crappy nights sleep ’cause Ryan crawled all over her last night. I offered to go into the tent… I really did. After Marnie left for work, and the kids had their breakfast, I decided to take them…

Read more »

A feeling of loss…

· Computers, Parenting, Writing

I went back to my old work (the one I quit in order to take care of my kids). It truly was a terrible place to work. No organization to speak of; the boss would change his mind and implementation details with no notice. The…

Read more »

Quick 'n Dirty

· Parenting, Writing

Just a quick update for today. Well, the boys were pretty tired today, and you could see it in the way they pushed things. Still, overall it was a good day. For lunch we went to the park for a picnic, and Jared and Ryan…

Read more »

The sands of time

· Parenting, Writing

Well, with the new van coming, I needed to get my license plates off of the old one. Of course, since it’s in Brandon (about 2.5 hours away), it turned into a whole day event with the kids. We left in the morning at about…

Read more »

A new week starts interestingly

· Parenting

What a day. I didn’t even have a chance to get on the computer it was so busy. So, todays post will be just a quick summary. Reading Kushiel’s Avatar (Jacqueline Carey) Writing Nothing today, again. What a busy day.

Read more »

Sunday, Lovely Sunday

· Parenting, Writing

What a glorious day. The sun was hot and the beach was cool. I knew it was going to be a stinking hot day, so I piled the boys into Marnie’s car at 8:30 AM, and we drove to Smitty’s for breakfast. After breakfast we…

Read more »

Stick a fork in me, I'm done

· Parenting, Writing

11:30 AM This is truly the first time I’ve felt like giving up. Finding another job and putting the kids back in daycare. I will title this ‘The week from hell’, although it’s really been almost two weeks. Ever since the van accident, Marnie and…

Read more »

The start of the blog

· Parenting

Gerald Brandt, an aspiring writer, is starting his blog. The main question is why? What on earth would make a non-published writer like myself start a blog? Well, I guess the main answer is that I finally registered my domain name, and I had to…

Read more »