15 Nov

The Christmas Bells are Ringing

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I can’t believe it is that time of the year again…

They are EVERYWHERE!

If you know me/and/or read my blog for some time already you will know that I am not the most Christmassy person in the world. Don’t take me wrong, I love the family gathering bit and the being with the ones we love and and the food… aaahhh… the food… but… The constant ringing of the Christmas Bells gets on my nuts.

Yeah… The Christmas Bells are ringing… And there is no other way to put what I feel about it but using one of the famous words of the great philosopher Jeremy Clarkson: Stop!! Stop Ringing those damned Bells! (well… not exactly these words… but it is what I would have used…)

Coming from a Marketing / Advertisement background I shouldn’t really get so annoyed at Christmas but I do.

It is all about selling and buying and consuming these days… It kinda feels like peace on earth to the men of good will became such a secondary thing that it isn’t really heard of much these days…

The Only Christmas Bells we hear ringing are the ones of the shops ding dongging in search for our attention to the latest toys and gadgets and latest offers for Christmas time…

To me that’s not what Christmas was supposed to be all about… and that depresses me…

Don’t take me wrong… I like giving and receiving presents just like the . next person.. but… the whole consumerism that goes whit the date just gets to me and not in a good way… Something that was supposed to be special becomes all about the latest craze… the latest toys and the latest fashions… And half of those things won’t even be around next year…

But The Christmas Bells will ring some more… I just hope we have some time to remember what the date is all about.

05 Nov

Teaching Fail

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Right… so my nearly-2-year-old niece is expanding her vocabulary…

So first things first we decide that she needs to learn how to tell TB´s name properly (right now instead of calling him Tommy she calls him Toba which is a bit of a rude connotation for Ass in Portuguese.

What you will see in the video bellow is our failed attempt to teach her…

Gotta love this kiddo! LOL!!!

zya!

30 Oct

Fun With Pumpkin Heads

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We’ve never celebrated Halloween at my parents house…

I never went trick or treating…

We never decorated and carved pumpkins… So I never really seen the point on doing it with my kids…

Yesterday I had the kids with me and we were looking for something to do indoors as we had planned a day together and it started raining… The answer came in the form of a pumpkin.

Mum School is in Session

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I was never the sort of guy that would medicate for everything under the sun…

Specially headaches and fevers… I would simply grind my teeth and wait until life is good again… and if you know me enough you will also know of my chronic headaches (the noes no doctor can ever explain).

Going to doctors then was out of the question… I hated doctors… Sorry docs…nothing personal… the one thing I had against you is that every time I went to see one of you I’d spend hours or days at the hospital… then again I would only go to hospital when I really couldn’t bare pain or lack of breath anymore.

I have always been like that… I’d miraculously feel better at the mere mention of a visit to the docs…

That is until TB was born.

I could cope with any pain myself, but don;t ask me to cope with my kiddo’s pain. My first instinct is always to give them some Nurofen!

Confessions of a SuperDad wannabe.

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When I was a kid I wanted to be the coolest dad ever once I grew up.

And as I was growing up I took 200000000 notes of what I would have to do if I wanted to be Daddy Cool. I took note of my dad’s mistakes and promised I would never do the same. I promised myself that I’d always be there and that no work related issue would come before my kids. I had decided that I’d play with them as often as I could and that I was going to make sure they got plenty of attention. I had decided that I would read them bed time stories and sit with them to do homework and stuff…

Then I grew up and my inner-child hid away in shame.

I had some time to think for the past few weeks… I know I should have taken this time and done something constructive or so… but I have instead decided to do some sort of balancing on it… you know?? Like you do with your check book???

Well yeah… I am none of the things I wanted to be… Well… I am a dad.

But I don’t seem to be able to spend a long as I’d like it with my kids… Even though I am at home with them.

When TB asked me to come and play with him and I said I’d do it later because I was a little busy at the moment.