I’d just finished a book and a song for Cady at bedtime, and tucked her in. After I said goodnight she said, “daddy, no. You stay up.” “You want me to stay up?” “Yeah. Make sounds, please.” “Oh. You want to hear me while you’re going to sleep?” “Yes. Thank you.” I remember that feeling […]

I was tucking Cady in tonight and telling her about going to school tomorrow, when she asked the oft-queried “why?” as of late. I told her, “so that you can learn a lot of good things.” “Why?” “So that when you grow up, you can do whatever you want to do,” I said before listing […]

At the end of a long day, {giggle} “I love you too, dad.”

Lots of great memories for Cady and I tonight. A couple of my favorites quotes: “I wish Santa would come soon.” It was getting cold, and the parade long. Turns out that she got to see Santa twice. In the maddening gridlock that followed the parade, at one point, while plotting my next move at […]