Author: MRJ

Each night I make sure to plug-in all the family electronics. Missing from this picture is Melissa’s phone as I used it to take the pictures. I also didn’t bring in the Wii U controller that I try to make sure is charged every night.

Today my little Angel turned 5. So in the morning we had a special birthday breakfast and opened a few of her gifts. Thanks Nan, Violet loves the Arts set and can’t wait to try the video game. Thanks Tom and Ange she loves the purse and is looking forward to wearing a tatoo to school tomorrow.  After dinner Nana came over with some cupcakes and she opened her present from Nana and Papa. I can’t wait to see her in her new Doc McStuffins rain gear. I hope she had a great day, though I can’t help but be said that my baby girl is just a little more grown up.  I love you Violet, and Happy Birthday.

I wanted to write you regularly as your grew up. To mark big days in your life, but each time a day I want to mark with a letter comes the words don’t. That ends today. Today you turn 5. By baby girl is growing up. At times I can see the big girl shining through, at others you are still my baby girl who needs her daddy. I want you to know that I love you I will always love and though you grow up you will still be my baby girl.

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Today we have a collage from Hockey Practice at the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence. On the right is Jacob’s practice, the left is the Toronto Maple Leafs. The kids usually practice early on Sundays, but today the Leafs wanted to practice before heading on their western road trip so the practice got moved to Rink 3 at 10:30am. When we arrived the Leafs were still practicing so I took a few pictures before taking Jacob in to get ready for his practice.

Today we have a picture of Jacob Watching Violets Hockey game.

Today we have a picture of Violets Lego creation. When she built-in she was so proud of it. She even covered it up so that she could surprise Nana with it It was so cute I thought that I would use it for today’s picture of the day.

This morning after getting ready for school Violet disappeared. I tracked her down in her room building a house with her Lego. So out came the camera and we have our picture of the day.

I’m not a morning person, never have been. Probably never will be, but having kids has made it necessary for me to be up and useful first thing in the morning. Most days it’s Melissa and I working together to get it all done. We have to them dressed, pack their lunches, and make sure they eat a good breakfast. It can make for a busy morning, specially if we wake up late. One of the hardest things for me is breakfast. I don’t like to eat when I first wake up, but I know that I should but I don’t always mange it. For the kids eating breakfast isn’t optional. We make sure they have something every morning, often something different for each of them.

In the morning the two of them are so different, on most days Jacob will take or leave breakfast. It’s a challenge to get him to sit at the table and eat. Violet wakes up hungry and is asking for something almost immediately. She’s our little alarm clock (Unless we really need to get up then she sleeps in).  The last couple of days has been more relaxed, Violet’s been coming into our room at 7am saying she’s hungry so we’ve been up with the kids early and have had plenty of time to pack their lunches, get them dressed and make sure they both have a good breakfast. One plus of this is the last 2 days, I’ve enjoyed a nice cheese and veggie omelet that Melissa has made for me. I have to say, when I have enough time I really like having a hot breakfast in the morning. Especially on these could January Days. I guess maybe it’s the to look at what it would take to be a morning person.

For Christmas Nana and Papa got me Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag  for the PS3, with all the problems I’ve had with my PS3s drive I thought it might make more sense to exchange it for the WiiU version. So this evening I headed out to EB Games and exchanged it. Now I can take advantage of the WiiU’s second screen functionality to play a game while Melissa watches TV.

Today my musings started after I looked back at something I started to write before Christmas. As I read it over I was amused by the different things that I was thinking about just 3 weeks ago:

This morning I find myself thinking about laptops, thinking about what I would want in one, when it hit me what I really want isn’t a computer or tablet, though both would be nice. What I want is to code. When ever I think about them I think about programming, and it comes to me that I don’t cod like I used too. I find I miss it. But the thing is I’ve lost the drive. I used to code anywhere, notebooks, loose paper, even scraps. At the end of the work day I would print code to work I during my compute home. Now I don’t. Sometimes i sketch out ideas or interfaces, but I used to side. I have a file folder at home with a bunch of hand written code. What happened. Why can’t I write like I used to.

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