My first trip overseas is turning out to be a great time. There is a Starbucks right across the street . We are staying at the Catalonia Ramblas. It is a very nice hotel very close to Las Ramblas (The cool place to hang out in Barcelona).
Doing this for my benefit more than any others.
http://www.writemaps.com is a sweet online tool to build sitemaps online.
Found a very interesting site that catalogs web design trends and color schemes. Great place to spend a few hours.
http://www.designmeltdown.com
She is not getting home until tomorrow. Poor kids cried when I told them. 
I felt like crying because I have to miss work again tomorow.
We made it!
I have to say that at the start of this week I was regretting it, but after finishing it, I had such a great time. I learned some really good lessons this week, tought some really good lessons, and had an amazing time with my children.
We started building a system of rewards for positive behavior, and punishments for wrong behavior. The kids really got into to these concepts and became much better helpers.
Emotions ran the gamut from sheer happines to utter frustration, but we made it. And I want to do it again. 
Here is a short list of the successes:
Here is a list of the challenges we faced:
All in all I am so encouraged with our family. My only regret is that I did not do this sooner with them. Daddy’s are so important to the development of their children. It is not easy and I dont think it is suppose to be. The lesson I learned this week is that I can do more than I have been doing, and more than I thought was possible.
Of course, I am very ready to see Karry!
What a FULL day today was!
I was a little nervous about today. At work (which I am doing from home) I had an all-day requirements gathering meeting with clients from Denver. That by itself is enough to make you want to stay in bed all day.
The day started off a little weird. Got a call from my neighbor at 6:45am that there was a drunk guy sifting through my trash. I was asleep on the couch, still in my clothes from the previous day so I rushed out the door with my 125 pound German Shepard dog Tye. I exchanged a few choice words with the drunkard and wheeled my can back to the house. Just like any other day, I woke up Dale and Ashley suggesting they get up and get ready for school. We were all up by 7am. Today was differrent because I also had to dress and feed the little boys so that I could take them all to school together. I feed all the kids and was able to get a quick shower (I have to have a shower in the morning or my day is completly messed up). Out the door by 8:40 and at school on time.
Once home I got the little boys setteled with a movie (Fox and the Hound) and got setteled into my office. Checked email and had a few IM conversations and then was dialed into my long meeting. Thank God for the IP phone and the MUTE button on it. Next thing I knew it was time to fix lunch for the boys and then go down and get Ashley at the bus stop at noon. I fixed her lunch and hopped back on my meeting.
I put the little boys down for a nap (in separate rooms) around 2pm. Finally some quiet time and another meeting to phone in to. Dale Jr. was home by 4pm, I picked him up at the bus stop because it was raining pretty hard.
Dinner was started at 5:15pm. I made spaggetti and meatballs. The kids did great and helped me clean up after dinner. I made cookies after dinner and Ashley touched the pan right out of the oven and burned her finger. What a mess… We put ice on her finger and then I put Aloe on it with a bandaid. She was in shambles because she knew that she could not do “monkey bars” at school tomorrow. She said that she was not going to school and that she wanted breakfast in bed.
All the kids are now in bed, and I am exhausted mentally and physically. Cant wiat for tomorrow.
Karry’s grandpa is pretty sick and took a turn for the worse on Saturday. She flew out first thing this morning to be with him. She is going for the entire week which makes me Mr. Mom to 4 kids ages 9, 6, 3, and 2.
I love being with the kids, but have not had to take care of everything for this amount of time. I am also working from home because I still have things that I am responsible for at IdentityMine. Oh ya, still have to take care of the Edigitize Admin evening shift too.
Stay tuned as I try to document this life changing experience…
After my fish and fishtank died in the power outage last December (7 days, no power), I set it on the deck totaly discouraged. This weekend I started putting it back together. I scoured my property for dark colored river rock all weekend and finally got some water in it Sunday night. Threw a couple of snails in there last night with some plants. Hopefully have some fish by end of next week!
9 years ago today my life totaly changed. Thank you for being my boy.
IdentityMine, Inc. sent half our team to MIX 07 in Las Vegas this past Sunday. We had a great time eating, drinking, and being computer nerds. At MIX we launched the new product we have been developing called Blendables. These are “Tools and components for designers & developers”. I spent the 4 days before the conference designing the website: http://www.blendables.com
