More Family Stories
- My son wanted to build a lemonade stand, so we spent an afternoon making a sign and setting up a table. He made four dollars and considers himself, quite seriously, a successful entrepreneur now.
- We tried to teach the dog a new trick over the weekend, following a training video step by step. Two hours in, he'd learned nothing new, but he had figured out exactly where we keep the treats.
- My daughter asked to help make pancakes for the first time. She insisted on flipping one herself. It landed on the ceiling fan instead of the pan, and somehow that became the highlight of breakfast.
- I set out to learn Spanish using a language app, doing a lesson every single day for a month. I can now confidently order coffee and discuss the weather, though not much else, and I'm choosing to be proud of that.
- I told my son he could pick any pet he wanted for his birthday, expecting him to say dog or cat. He asked for a tarantula. We now have a tarantula, and I've never been more surprised by my own decisions.
- I signed up for a 5k with genuine intentions of training properly for two months. I trained for exactly one week, ran the race anyway, and finished somewhere in the respectable middle of the pack.