Black Friday doesn’t mark the start of the holiday season around here, no, it is when we get assigned our sponsor-a-child child that Christmastime officially begins. Every bit as much as overeating cookies, blowing our gift budget, and my personal obsession to find the very most perfectest wrapping paper ever, […]
For as long as we’ve been having two-way conversations with our children, my wife and I have been very forthright with them both about most things in life, money included. Whether it is donating it, saving it, spending it extravagantly, or spending it to put food on the table and […]
With two darling children and a chubby tabby cat around here, it is vitally important to me that we keep our in-home environment as safe as humanly possible. Call it ‘going green’ if you must. Frankly I think that phrase has been exploited by corporations looking to cash in on […]
Me! Naked! Ouch. That was super cruel. So sorry. Me + Naked are words you, my dear and loyal reader, should never be forced to consider together. I apologize sincerely for putting them, and a naked me, in your head right now. Go brush your teeth or something. I’ll wait. […]
Years ago, when our Skylanders kids were nothing more than a distant twinkle in our hopefully, young-adult eyes, I cooked a dinner for friends, with a printed menu and everything! It was a tasting menu, because I was watching too much Food Network and was prone to trying hard, with […]
***3/4/13 UPDATE*** Wreck-It Ralph is out on DVD tomorrow and Amazon’s pre-order just got even cheaper. Order now! I used to think that it took a lot to get me jazzed about a Disney film. More than just that Pixar desk light animation title screen. Turns out though, all it […]
After being beat down by her day job, cramming for interviews and preparing a case study for a much-desired (and deserved) promotion, and the nine (9!) college credits she is enduring this semester in an effort to walk with the Class of ’14, the Mrs. was voluntarily awake at 5:45 […]
Her story mirrors ours. Things, you could say if you weren’t even the least bit superstitious [salt over shoulder, knocks on wood, fingers crossed], have been too easy. Parenting life here has been paved with chocolate mousse; divine and delicious, smooth and sweet. Being mama and papa to The Bear […]
