Author: Backpacking Dad

Emily and I took Erin down to the community pool on Sunday afternoon. Erin’s confidence in the water is really astounding, and now that she has her sea legs she can wander around the wading pool on her own, occasionally submerging herself to blow bubbles (or because she has fallen over for a moment) and…

Emily and I are running away to San Francisco tonight to stay at some crazy Japanese hotel in Japantown. We are also going to have noodles. Thank goodness for mothers-in-law who are willing to drive 6 hours to sit with their granddaughters for one night.

I joke a little that "breakfast" around here involves nuking some eggs and peeling a banana. It’s not really a joke. In the morning I generally pour out some egg whites into a little dish, microwave them for about a minute and a half, peel and chop a banana and some strawberries, and maybe make…