The Daily Krier

I’ve been extremely lucky as a parent so far.  My kids slept through the night at a relatively early age. The transition from bottle to sippy cup was never an issue.  They’re good eaters, preferring fruit at snack time and happily trading their mashed potatoes for my green beans at dinner time (oh, how I [...]

Joshua’s in the 3 1/2 year old room at daycare and with the fall program starting a few weeks ago, he now has “homework”.  Not in the real sense of homework, but he does have a project to complete at home about once a week.  The theme for the past week was apples so on [...]

Quite a few weeks ago Joshua decided that he wanted a soccer jersey.  Since I wouldn’t give in and run out and buy one, I made the unfortunate mistake of telling him he should ask Santa for a jersey as a Christmas present.  Of course, he wanted to run right out to the mall to [...]

My 3-year-old and Iwere looking through a photo album of him from when he was born and at first he had trouble reconciling the fact that the pictures were of HIM.  Once he got past that, he became quite intrigued and had lots of questions, as 3-year-olds do.  At the very end of the photo [...]

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been months since my last blog post.  Where does time go?  Wish I could say I’ve been preoccupied training for the 5k but that wouldn’t be true (well, not entirely; I have been training but that’s not the reason I haven’t been blogging).   Between work, the kids and their activities [...]

Earlier this week we had parent/teacher conferences at daycare.  Everything was normal and both boys are not only doing well, in Connor’s case he’s mastered half of what he should learn when he turns 2 (he won’t be 2 until mid June).  One item came up, however, and while it was a tad bit concerning [...]

I’m sitting here watching “The Biggest Loser” and what do the remaining contestants have to do this week? They head to Texas to lead teams of local residents to complete a 5K.  Destiny? I think so.  All signs are pointing to me doing this.  And now I’ve publicly blogged about this twice so there’s no [...]

So here I am again, a month since my last post and lamenting about how hard it is to get into a groove.  Same thing with exercise; I’m training for a 5K in July and for 3 weeks it went well. I was following my prescribed training program and feeling really great about the progress [...]

Today is my older son’s 3rd birthday.  I can’t believe he’s 3 already.  He’s turning into such a handsome young boy with such a great personality. He’s very inquisitive, talkative and full of imagination.  I’m amazed at how he thinks things through and the questions he comes up with.  His favorite song is “Hot Pants” [...]

As we start the second month of the year, I’m amazed at how quickly time continues to pass.  My older son turns 3 on Saturday and I wonder how he got to be 3 already.  Seems like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital to a half packed up house as we [...]