wadehodges.com Archives: Family

God is Real

Last night we took the training wheels off of Elijah’s bicycle. It was past time. I had already raised them so high that they only touched when he rounded corners in our neighborhood.
As we were taking them off, I told him that once they came off they weren’t going back on. This was a speech […]

A Trip to the Pet Store

Yesterday, after a great Easter Celebration at Garnett and a huge Easter feast at Macaroni Grill, we took the boys to the pet store. This was the third time I had been there in the past few weeks. The first time was with Caleb when we were grabbing some father-son time. He […]

Trophies

My boys are suddenly obsessed with trophies.  That’s all they want to talk about.  I have a couple of my old trophies stashed in a closet.  They found them and have been begging to look at them.  Finally, Caleb, 5 1/2 years old, asked me if he could have one to keep. 
I said, “No.”
He […]

Rick Reilly: Making Up for Lost Time

Sometimes Rick Reilly makes me laugh like crazy. Other times he makes me cry like a baby.This one does the latter.

Kindy-Garden

Well, my little boy started kindergarten today. He was born just yesterday. I swear he was. Now he’s in school, spending a large chunk of his day away from his mother. I’m not sure how he’s doing right now, but his mom’s doing ok, but only as long as she doesn’t think […]