Why blog?

I have considered blogging before, but always stopped short, because I figured nobody really gave a shit about anything I had to say (a pretty good assumption). I'm not so narcissistic to think I have anything important to say, so why start now? I'm writing for me now, because I enjoy it, if someone else enjoys some of it too, even better. Some people keep journals, I'm going to blog. If nothing else my sister will like getting to read stories about her nephews. I have to give some credit/blame for me doing this to Libby, and her incredible Libby Logic blog. Her blog is irreverent, clever, and flat out funny, a must read. I'm going to aim a lot lower than that, so expect much less from mine, and you might enjoy it. I will openly admit this blog will gravitate mainly to the topic of my lovely workaholic CPA wife, my two adorable boys (O who is 6, and Q who is 3) and being a stay at home dad. I will blather on about other things as well, sports, movies, TV, food, fantasy football (soooo excited for football season!), maybe a little politics, and other inane things. Do not expect any talk of religion, something I find to be ones own personal issue. Without further ado, my first post......

I'm teaching my 3 year old to lie! I feel really bad about it, I really do, but it's better this way. O has just started first grade and going to school all day, it's a big adjustment for him. To complicate matters, he is convinced that his brother and I party all day without him. I know this, because every day after school, he greets his brother with great hostility, and says all we do is have fun without him. Despite being only 3 his brother takes great pleasure in pushing his brother's buttons, and excels at pushing them. Q loves the theatrics O goes through whenever he gets upset, so he tells him what we do while he's at school. To avoid angry outbursts and ease the school transition, I have been asking Q not to tell O about things we do. For his part, Q has done a wonderful job not revealing the events of the day, perhaps too good of job. I could reason he's learning there is grey area, not just black and white, but that would be BS, I'm teaching him to lie. Maybe he'll grow from it and make a wonderful politician as an adult, he just better not ever lie to me. I'm trying to convince O he's having much more fun at school than we could ever have at home, but that's just me promoting lying more. Hopefully he'll buy that one, so that it can be me doing responsible adult parental lies rather than his brother practicing plausible deniabilty for a career in politics.