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By Fireman Chris, December 31, 2006 7:24 PM

Shortly before Christmas (during the in-law visit), I went to dinner at a local BBQ joint with a fellow firefighter. One of the fixtures of this particular restaurant is a dispenser for various advertisement postcards right outside the men’s room.

This dispenser has proven interesting over the years. Its how I first learned about the movie Secretary, when there were postcard-sized versions of the (spanko) infamous movie poster with the tag line “Assume the position”. I still have one of those cards floating around somewhere, in fact. Its had underwear ads with rather suggestive poses. And its had a bunch of junk too.

This time, as my friend and I went to wash our hands before dinner (having come from the fire station), he said, “Oh, you’ve got to see these.”

These turned out to be postcards with actual self-adhesive Perrier bottle labels with various emotions (all ending in “-ier”) in place of the “Perrier”. Happier, Peppier, etc. The labels are the same size as the actual bottle labels and are distributed by Perrier as a gimmick to customize your Perrier bottle.

Of course, this is the one I had to pick up.

Only thing that would have been better would be “Naughtier” or “Brattier”.

Happy New Year everyone!

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By Fireman Chris, December 24, 2006 12:58 PM

Yesterday, the princess (who seems to be getting kinkier by the minute), had a bit of diaper rash. Not quite accurate, since she doesn’t wear diapers except to bed, but same concept. So, her grandmother put some cream on the affected area…by laying the child in that oh so familiar position across her lap. Afterwards, she set her down on her feet.

The child’s response? “I want over your lap again!”

Then, at lunch today, the princess announced to the entire table (us plus Sparkle’s parents and her grandfather) that she wants…a collar.

She then proceeded to stand up, take her panties off and wave them around while running through the living room.

2 days ’til Vegas. *sigh*

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By Fireman Chris, December 21, 2006 4:01 PM

Echoing Sparkle’s latest, brief post, we have a house full of family for the holidays, so blogging’s not much of an option right now. Honestly, its not a priority either. I’m currently sequestered in my home office working, but not really with enough privacy to blog extensively.

So, I’ve not disappeared or anything, just on a brief hiatus through the end of the year (I might get in one or two more posts in 2006).

Sparkle and I are heading out on a little child-less trip next week…gotta take advantage of the live-in babysitters. It promises to be a fun one…she’s already been told she’s not to pack any panties. I suspect the schoolgirl uniform will be packed, however. And, there’s one whole suitcase already filled with the contents of our toybox.

So, if I don’t get a chance to post before, a Merry Christmas to all and a happy and healthy 2007.

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By Fireman Chris, December 16, 2006 11:58 AM

Sparkle and I got a nice surprise yesterday: our blogs (her three and my one) were reviewed in the Winks feature on Todd and Suzy’s blog, American Spanking Society, with some very nice things said indeed.

Todd and Suzy are a married couple from Arizona, and their blog is a nice mix of their spanking experiences, fiction stories, tips for novice spankers and the above-mentioned Winks, which are reviews of other blogs.

Thanks Todd and Suzy!

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By Fireman Chris, December 15, 2006 12:01 PM

As you may know if you read Sparkle’s blog (though I honestly can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it here and am not inclined to go back and re-read all my previous posts), we’ve been experimenting with what we’re calling “reassurance spankings” since September (we’re up to number 13 as of last night). This is our take on the traditional “maintenance” spanking that some like to engage in. Unlike maintenance spankings, however, these aren’t intended to address any particular disciplinary issues. They’re disciplinary in style, but they’re not punishment. That’s why we decided on the term reassurance, because they’re intended to reassure Sparkle that I’m there to spank her when she needs, whether she actually needs it at that moment or not.

Basically, once each week (Sunday to Saturday), Sparkle must put on a particular short black tennis-type skirt that she has. No underwear is to be worn. The top is left to her choice and has ranged from a tight t-shirt to one of my dress shirts to a heavy sweater. She then must pick an implement (without repeating too frequently) and come ask me for a spanking with it. When to deliver the spanking is up to me, and if its not immediately, she continues to wear that outfit and goes about her routine until I tell her its time for the spanking.

Spanking time is generally initially indicated by my going to get one of our oak dining room chairs and carrying it into the family room. The spankings almost always start with Sparkle going across my lap while sitting on this chair, having her skirt flipped up, and getting a hard hand spanking (no gentle warmups here). Next comes the chosen implement. Assuming its suitable for OTK, we move straight to that. If its not, Sparkle then stands and places her hands on the seat of the chair for the implement spanking. After the spanking is over, I usually rub her bottom a bit before holding her on my lap and cuddling her briefly. Then, she has to go sit at her computer and write a blog entry about the spanking. Usually. Depending on what the night’s schedule is like or what else she’s working on, I do allow her to postpone the writing until later in the night or even the next day, but she has to ask first. The write-ups of these spankings can be found on her blog under the Reassurance label.

We do occasionally miss weeks due to schedules and such, but we try to be as consistent as we can.

As is probably apparent from both our blogs, spankings are more often for fun than punishment in this house. Sure, Sparkle does get punished occasionally, but truth be told, she’s honestly very well behaved…most of the time. I’m also a fairly, as our friend Iris put it to me recently, “indulgent” top. As I told her at the time, I’m not sure whether or not that’s a good reputation to have, but c’est la vie.

I should also note that Sparkle and I have a very healthy and active spanking and sex life, especially considering that we have a 3 year old (we do both work from home and she does go to pre-school, so that may make some difference).

I mention this last part only to make it clear that we’re not at a point in our relationship where we’ve lost the “spark”. We still very much enjoy playing with each other (in whatever form that may take), and while we occasionally have “dry spells” due to busy schedules, visiting family, lack of energy or whatnot, they’re usually very brief (such as a week or less) in nature.

Why then did we decide on implementing a very structured, formalized system for a weekly spanking when Sparkle may get spanked every other night of the week as well?

Part of it is because it is structured and formalized. We’ve never had any sort of consistent ritual for our spankings, even punishments. I generally prefer to go with the moment and/or with what seems appropriate for any given situation, be it punishment or play. Thus, the idea of having a ritual was (and still is) intriguing when we first started talking about this in September.

It also helps ensure that even during dry spells and busy times, Sparkle gets at least one spanking each week. This ties in with what I said back in the first paragraph about it being a reassurance to Sparkle that I’ll spank her when she needs it. Even in busy times (assuming we’re home and don’t have non-kinky house guests), we make the time for these spankings. Because they have a ritualized structure, they’re relatively short in duration and not tied into a larger scene or foreplay situation and thus can fit into a busy schedule easier without feeling like we’re cutting playtime short.

Since we’ve started this experiment, Sparkle’s obviously written quite extensively about what they mean to her through her post-spanking blog entries. Several times, however, she’s asked (in posts, comments and other venues) me what they mean to me, and I’ve always avoided answering that. This is mostly due to the fact that beyond the ritual issue I explained above, I honestly didn’t know until I’d been through the process a few times.

Last night, however, it became clear (though I’d been slowly realizing this for a couple weeks already).

For last night’s spanking, Sparkle chose one of our bent-handled bath brushes (the type that are mostly just an oversized hairbrush). She doesn’t like brushes in any form. A couple of weeks ago, she chose the rubber paddle, which she’s not fond of either.

After I finished giving her a very vigorous and painful bathbrushing (where I really had to struggle to keep her on my lap and she kicked and bucked), she asked me again what I got out of these, and I was finally able to answer her.

For me, its a very good feeling indeed to know that Sparkle trusts me enough to go select an implement she hates and ask me to spank her with, knowing its going to be a hard and painful spanking in a position she finds uncomfortable. To know she trusts me to hurt her without hurting her. To know that she wants me to spank her because I enjoy it, even if she doesn’t entirely enjoy every spanking I give her.

And that’s what is reassuring to me.

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By Fireman Chris, December 13, 2006 11:12 AM

As promised in yesterday’s entry, here’s a rundown and some pics from our schoolgirl uniform “playful punishment” session Sunday.

After the princess was nestled all snug in her bed, Sparkle and I adjourned to the family room, as it has the most room (and best window coverings) for taking pictures. Plus, the couch comes in handy, as you’ll see. My plan was to take a number of pictures of her first there, then adjourn back to the bedroom for the actual spankings.

The first two pictures from yesterday’s entry were taken against one of the family room walls. I actually took a number of pictures, both from the front and from the back. Sparkle is obviously concerned about having her face out on the internet, so I chose the best of the “rear view” pics to post (and don’t really expect to hear any complaints there).

After getting some establishing shots of the uniform, ’twas time to move onto more, shall we say, interesting poses.

First on the agenda was the classic “skirt tucked up into the waistband” shot.

I’ve always loved the look of a schoolgirl in the corner with her skirt tucked up into the waistband, regardless of whether her panties are up or down. Now, I’m not a big fan of corner time in general, but it seems to work nicely with schoolgirl fantasies.

As you can see, Sparkle started off with her feet flat, but then crossed her one leg behind the other, which gave her bum a lovely little jut (which you can see in the picture above, even though you can’t see her feet).

Next, we decided to move onto some “over the arm of the couch” shots.

I love this couch for the very reason that its got a great arm for bending over. In fact, the very first time I saw it in our old house, Sparkle was bent over the arm. She’d been there to meet the delivery crew while I was at work (this was before we were married) and decided to surprise me with a sexy little scene when I got home.

But back to the present.

Sparkle took her position over the arm of the couch, and I straightened her skirt for a “before” shot. I love the way her legs look in this, particularly with the knee socks and with the skirt raised slightly by her position.

Of course, the skirt didn’t stay down for long. It rarely does around here.

Up it went, and I couldn’t resist giving the expose skin below her panties a smack. She picked a cute pair of white microfiber panties that frame her bottom nicely and stretch across it deliciously. And, as you can see, they’re somewhat sheer as well.

I kept my dear wife in that position for several minutes while I snapped shots from various angles. I’m hard-pressed to decide which one is my favorite.

By this time, I was more than ready to retire to the bedroom, so I helped Sparkle up and off we went.

Once in the bedroom, I retrieved the oak paddle from the toy drawer, and Sparkle started looking nervous. I set the paddle on the bed, then took her by the wrist and brought her to the side of the bed. I then sat and pulled her across my lap. Up her skirt went again, and with a bit of playful scolding, I began spanking her across the seat of her panties.

It didn’t take long for her bottom to take on a nice, rosy glow, particularly the spots exposed by her panties (I have to admit that I paid special attention to those areas). Then, her panties came down and she was spanked some more.

After the hand spanking, I had her lie down on the bed and readjusted her skirt. I started slow with the oak paddle, gradually building up to hard smacks while she kicked and squirmed. After about 5 minutes of paddling, I asked her if she’d had enough, to which she nodded.

I then told her she’d get ten more good swats, and that she was going to bend over the end of the bed for these.

Sparkle doesn’t particularly like being bent over for any sort of spanking, especially a paddling. Still, it seemed appropriate to the scene, and I really did want to pay her back for all the teasing.

Before the paddling started, however, I decided to lay the paddle on her lower back and take a picture of her bent over waiting for the last ten. Only, I failed to tell her that I was doing this, and she didn’t realize the paddle was there, so she shifted a bit as I was aiming the camera. I didn’t realize the paddle was falling until I snapped the shutter.

The result? The picture caught the paddle perfectly in midair at about the height a stroke would be delivered (its a bit high, but not too bad). We’ve jokingly titled this picture the “Ghost Paddling”, because it looks like an invisible person is paddling my dear wife. I wish I could share it, but it shows a bit more than we’re comfortable posting, so you’ll have to use your imaginations. But we did get a good chuckle out of that.

Back to the paddling.

Sparkle resumed her position, and I laid the paddle against her waiting bottom. She looks so cute bent over like that. I pulled it back and delivered the first stroke.

She yelped.

She pretty much yelped after each one. Around stroke five or six, she started kicking her legs up too. What a cute sight.

After the last stroke, she stood and we hugged as we do after a spanking. She was sore, but happy, and we moved to the bed for other fun. I’ll leave it at that, except to add that she asked to be paddled a couple more times in the course of it (once with the patent leather paddle and once with the ping pong paddle with the holes). She was a very sore girl by the end of the night, but very happy too.

We’re certainly going to enjoy this Christmas present many more times in the future.

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By Fireman Chris, December 12, 2006 5:27 PM

After posting the pictures of her “naughty” panties two weeks ago, Sparkle cryptically and teasingly mentioned to me that there would probably be another opportunity for a photo shoot in the near future. Well, right before I left on my business trip last week, she surprised me with an early Christmas present .

That’s my darling wife wearing the new school uniform she bought from Lands End. When it arrived, she came into my office and asked me if I wanted an early present, to which I replied yes. She disappeared and came back a few minutes later wearing this.

My jaw doesn’t often drop, but it certainly did this time.

I’ve had a schoolgirl uniform fetish for at least as long as I’ve been into spanking. I actually went to an elementary school that had uniforms similar to this, and I’ve always enjoyed the look. I’ve even gotten to role play a couple of times with playmates who had uniforms.

But never with Sparkle…until now.

She’s known about the fantasy, but for reasons I won’t go into here, hasn’t wanted to explore it. That’s been fine with me, and I’ve never pushed it, because I understood and respected her reasons, and frankly, role play has never been a big part of our kink life.

So, it was even more surprising to see her in a school uniform at long last. She quickly said that she still didn’t want to role play as a school girl per se, but that she was happy to at least offer the visual aspect.

For those who want the particulars, the uniform consists of the Short Sleeve Performance Mesh Polo in white, the Drifter Vest in red and the Solid Pleat Skirt in khaki.

The socks were purchased elsewhere and the loafers are ones she’s had for awhile.

Now, you might say that Sparkle was a tease to buy and model this uniform for me right before I had to leave town for a week, and you’d be right.

You’d also be right to say she was a tease to put it on as soon as we got home from church Sunday morning, and wear it all day while I was not able to do anything about it until the princess went to bed.

Which she did.

And once the princess was in bed, I did something about it.

These pictures were taken at the beginning of a rather extended modeling and spanking session that ended with Sparkle being soundly paddled with the heavy oak paddle we have. Or rather, the “playful punishment” for her teasing ended with that, though she was paddled quite a bit more with several other implements after “playful punishment” turned to “sexual play”.

The camera was put away for this last part, though I do have a few naughtier pictures that I’ll post tomorrow from the modeling and some of the spanking.

Until then, enjoy! I know I did.

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By Fireman Chris, December 10, 2006 1:34 PM

For those who haven’t seen me in the HappyTails Chat the past few nights, I did make it back from my business trip in one piece. All told, 14-some hours of driving and about 20 hours of billable work…and three nights away from home in a hotel that had a wonderful free wireless internet connection that actually allowed me to stay connected for a whopping 3 minutes at a time. I pulled back into town Thursday night just in time to pick up Sparkle and the princess to go to a fundraiser dinner at a local restaurant for the princess’ pre-school (I insisted we take Sparkle’s car as I’d already seen the inside of my truck too much for one day).

Christmas decorating has been in full-swing here at our house, and looks to be more or less done. Christmas is the one time of the year that we go all out in decorating. We may get a lily for the table at Easter, or a pumpkin at Halloween, but that’s it. Christmas, however, is another matter.

The lights on the outside of the house went up the day after Thanksgiving. That’s my traditional “Friday after” exercise to work off the turkey and stuffing from the night before. As much as I grumble about doing it sometimes, I really like getting the lights up and how the house looks afterwards, although I do get a bit frustrated with the process.

That, and certain aspects of the tree (more on that below) are my jobs for the overall decorating. Sparkle handles the bulk of the interior decorating, as well as overseeing most of the trimming of the tree. When I left for my trip, most of the decorations were still in the six giant plastic bins we have in the garage, mostly due to the fact that we were having the carpets cleaned while I was gone.

Sparkle didn’t waste any time the day after that, however, because when I got home, all the bins except the two with tree decorations were empty and the house looked great.

We’d decided before I left that we’d get the tree Friday afternoon, because it was really the only time we had to do it. This is my every-third-weekend of duty for the fire department, and next weekend is devoted to several Christmas parties. So, Friday around 4:30, we headed down to the tree lot across the street from the fire station and bought a tree (after a brief interlude for me to run across the street to respond to a medical call that got toned out just as we parked at the tree lot).

We’d invited our friend Iris over for dinner and to help decorate, and she arrived shortly after we got the tree inside and setup in the corner across from our front door. After a nice dinner, we started in on the tree in earnest.

I mentioned that one of my other jobs had to do with the tree. Specifically, my job is to get the lights up on the tree. Then, Sparkle takes over with directing the rest of the decorating.

As I got the lights out and ready to start stringing them, Iris started to say “Would you like me to…” and then paused with a cross between a grimace and a smirk. I looked at her expectantly, and she said ruefully, “I was going to ask if you’d like me to stand in the corner. So you can hand the lights around the tree to me.”

I took great pleasure in saying “Yes, go stand in the corner, young lady,” as she knew I would.

I took great pleasure in repeating that to her several more times during the decorating. I think she took great pleasure in sticking her tongue out at me too.

Even holiday decorating can be kinky.

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By Fireman Chris, December 3, 2006 8:09 PM

Just a quick entry to let you all know that you probably won’t see much of me over the next week. Tomorrow, I’m leaving for a business trip up to Northern California, and I won’t be back until late Thursday. I’ll be taking my laptop with me, but I’m not sure how much time, energy or decent internet connectivity I’ll have to do any blogging or other online activities. Friday will probably be devoted to catching up back here at the office and the weekend’s already shaping up to be a busy one at the fire department.

Business travel used to be a frequent fact of life for me. Shortly after Sparkle and I got married, I started a job that, initially, required about 10 weeks of travel a year. By the time I left three years later (shortly before the princess was born), I was travelling at least 2 weeks out of every month, sometimes for two weeks in a row. The good news about this was that it was quite lucrative for my frequent flier and hotel membership account balances. The bad news, of course, was that I saw much less of my wife than I’d have liked. Still, we were able to deal with that, but once we knew the princess was on her way, I knew I could no longer handle that sort of travel demand.

Over the past three years in my current job, I’ve become somewhat spoiled by the lack of travel required. I had to take a couple of short trips right when I started for my own training, and one overnight trip earlier this year to visit a client, but other than that, the only other business travel I’ve done is for a few conferences which Sparkle and our daughter have been able to join me on.

I’m not greatly looking forward to this trip, but only due to being away from home. Some business travel is inevitable, I suppose, and I’m OK with that. Doesn’t mean I have to enjoy it though.

On a separate note, I also just upgraded the blog to Blogger Beta. For those who are unfamiliar, that’s basically Blogger’s newer version that gives you some different blog management and streamlined posting options. I may play around with the template when I get back to incorporate some of the new features. For now, all I’ve changed is to add labels to a number of the entries. This is a new feature of Beta that’s similar to the “tags” used in LiveJournal and some other blogging services.

See you all when I get back.

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By Fireman Chris, November 29, 2006 5:38 PM

First of all, I finally went ahead and added this blog to the Unofficial Assville NetRing. This webring is a collection of spanking-related sites, primarily associated with the alt.sex.spanking and soc.sexuality.spanking newsgroups and the cyber-community known as Assville that was created there.

As I’ve mentioned in other entries, this community was a big part of my growth in the kink and my life in general. As you know, I met Sparkle through a.s.s., and several of the other links on this page are to blogs and sites run by people I met through the newsgroup as well.

And speaking of links and other blogs, I’ve also added a few new ones to the list. As a result, I’ve also redone my link lists a bit. As you can see, I’ve split Sparkle’s sites off seperately. I’ve included The Punishment Book with her sites since she’s a contributor there, even though its not her site per se.

For the rest of the links, I’ve gone ahead and reordered them into alphabetic order. Up until now, I’ve just left them in the order I originally added them, but that was starting to look a bit messy, and I didn’t want to seem like I was favoring any one site over another, so alphabetic is more egalitarian.

As for the new links I’ve added, they’re summarized below (alphabetically as well):

AngelBrat’s Blog – Tracy commented on my Love our Lurkers Day post, and I enjoy reading her blog. Plus, I’ve noticed quite a few visitors here coming through her site in my stats.

Banned YouTube Spankings – I found this site through Aunty Agony’s blog. Its basically a collection of spankings clips that have been removed from YouTube for content violations or what not.

Fantastic Spanking – The best way to describe Frank’s blog is the header he has at the top: “A TOTALLY UNREAL recounting of my life and my spankings. Everything you are about to read is NOT TRUE. The names haven’t been changed because they were totally made up in the first place.“

A Farmwife With a Twist – Amber’s been active on happytails for awhile and comments here occasionally. This is her second go at a spanking blog, and she’s doing a great job so far.

Journey to the Darkside – I’ve seen padme’s comments on Bonnie’s blog, but I have to admit, I never read her blog until today when Sparkle was reading it. And I’m already hooked!

Master Fitz and His Brat – Another site I found through Sparkle. Gotta love the Brits!

I’ve also added a link to Niki Flynn’s new website, Dances with Werewolves. Its an actual full-on website, not a blog (though it does include what she calls a Not-Blog), so I’ve included it under my Links section. Check it out…lots of great clips and pictures from Niki’s professional work and more info about her.