David Journal

Tag: Ezra

  • And now Ezra

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    Today just before I arrived home Bex called to tell me that Ezra had beat up Noah again. Bex informed us that she planned to call the police next time. I agreed with her although I felt that me calling the police after the fact when I wasn’t even there during the assault didn’t make…

  • Top Golf

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    Today I took Noah and Ezra to Top Golf as the agreed upon reward for Noah’s grades. We had a great time although the scoring wasn’t always reflective of how well people were playing. Ezra often got ridiculously high scores for pedestrian hits which made it hard for Noah—losing consistently desire performing at least as…

  • Disaster to opportunity

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    Toward the end of the workday Ezra hit Noah with a glass and, as usual, showed zero remorse. I pinned him on the stairs (not my best moment) and told him I was done with him assaulting Noah. I later apologized but he wasn’t ready to hear it. He soon took his anger out by…

  • Surrogate parent

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    Alex informed me that Ezra played a game we have forbidden on Alex’s VR. When I told Ezra that would be a problem he informed me that Enoch had been playing another game that should be equally banned. I brought up to Alex that Enoch was not allowed to play that game and he point…

  • Small victory

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    I’m going to take it as a small victory that I took the time to play Minecraft with Ezra rather than going to bed as early as normal. That wouldn’t be a victory except that we did it not on a school night and I don’t have a temple appointment until late morning tomorrow so…

  • Buy in required

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    Emma and Ezra have been doing therapy for months and Emma has come to the point where she needs less and less frequent visits. Ezra, on the other hand, is making virtually no progress because he’s not invested in the idea that there’s any reason to live happier. It’s just a real world proof of…

  • The weight of sin

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    I got word that Ezra was shopping on his media device (an old phone). Considering that he shouldn’t have had access to do that I went to investigate. Unfortunately what I found was that he had found a backdoor to Google (through the camera no less) and has been using it to search for porn…

  • More law enforcement “fun”

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    I’m tardy in recording this, just like Isaac’s hospital visit. This took place last week. On July 5th Ezra got mad at 9:30pm because I took the nerf gun he kept pointing at Noah. In response he escaped the house a few minutes later (just fast enough to get out of my sight) after declaring…

  • Poof

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    I couldn’t let I be forgotten that we briefly had a feral bird for a pet. This morning the kids called my attention to the cats looking at a bird. When I came to see i was surprised that the cats were looking at a bird standing on the deck only inches from them. Kylo…

  • A tidal wave of blessings

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    Sometimes it feels like nothing goes your way for long stretches of time and then suddenly many things go right at once. Today was one of those days. First thing this morning I got an offer letter from SKM Engineering. Suddenly I can know that my worst case scenario is no longer a continuation of…