Sheen illuminates Today Show, GMA with Adonis grandeur If you saw Charlie Sheen on “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America” or even “The Alex Jones Show,” you know that the former star of “Two and a Half Men” isn't really suffering from a deflated opinion of himself. If you believe him, he has superhuman powers that extend beyond the realm of mere mortals, writes the National Post. Like an otherworldly Adonis (seen claims to have the Greek figure's DNA inside), Charlie Sheen has the alleged god-like power to kick any addiction and climb any mountain.
If you've been a reader of this blog well, sorry. 2010 hasn't been a great year for us blogging about the ups and downs of family life. Neither was 2009 for that matter. Or 2008.
You get the gist...
We love blogging, we do it every day in our day jobs as web publishers. But somehow, when it comes down to capturing those precious and fleeting moments that happen in family life, we're bloody terrible at it.
What do you do when your mother is a disappointment? It's not especially something you see covered in blogs or writing. Mothers are supposed to be practically perfect. Hold on, that's Mary Poppins...
Sadly, I'm at the point where I've had to throw my hands up and admit that my mother has been a disappointment. This is not new information. In fact, when I left home for university back in 1995, it was mostly to escape her and the small town mentality that she represented.
I have hazy memories of the day Jake was born. Most of it centers around me, in the afternoon, walking out of the hospital to a nearby KFC to get something to eat. Bizarrely, I can't remember whether he was born at that point or not, just that the darkening skies chose that point to open. As I returned to the hospital, lightning flashed across the sky above the building, and heavy, warm rain started to descend on me.
We just got back from a two-week holiday in Spain. I'm planning a full write-up of some of the stuff we got up to on holiday, but first I want to share the biggest disaster of the holiday.
We'd hired a car for the fortnight. Driving in Spain is pretty straightforward, and I really enjoy being able to go further afield from wherever we're staying. Renting a car is the smart thing to do, and we've done it about four times now.
It's been a funny old week in our house. We're got a house guest, we've had a very uneventful 10th wedding anniversary and we've attended an old friend's wedding.
Incidentally, for those of you approaching a 10th wedding anniversary, you'll be pleased to know that it's known as the "tin" or "coal" anniversary. Nothing more prestigious that that. Sorry.
Yes indeed, the Summer Holidays have officially begun.
Do you remember when you had that last half-day at school? The teachers are busy tidying things up and the classroom looks bare with all the posters and paintings taken down and sent home. Instead of lessons, there's a video to watch or you just idle about chatting with the handful of other pupils who've bothered to show up.
We're fast approaching my most dreaded time of the year - the summer holidays. The kids are off for a full two months, the weather's been oddly changeable lately. How are we going to keep them from driving us bonkers over the summer holidays?
Yes, consider that an open question, everybody. How can we keep the kids amused over the summer holidays?
Especially for the Work At Home mums and dads among us who need to get some work done to keep the money rolling in! How do we achieve that balance between getting our jobs done, and keeping our kids happy?
Lisa went over to London yesterday for the press launch of Britain's Got Talent. And got stuck there, due to huge clouds of volcanic ash which have caused airports to shut down all over the UK.
At the moment, it looks like it may be Saturday or later before she can fly home. Luckily, her sister lives in London, so she has a place to stay until such times as flights are allowed to resume again.
It's the end of a tough week here. The cancer situation continues to impact our lives in ways we'd never imagined.
Lisa's spending increasing amounts of time in Belfast looking after her mother. It's a life of shopping, doctor and hospital appointments and tending to her mother at home. She fits in work when she can, but it's difficult for her. And, as I know, when you're embroiled in a situation where a parent has cancer, your taste for other things in life tends to dry up. You become absorbed in the crisis.
