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The End of School Means The End of Routine Photo Contest and Giveaway
OWTK Giveaways / Parenting Blog

The End of School Means The End of Routine Photo Contest and Giveaway

This post is sponsored by Pure Protein. All thoughts and opinions expressed below are honesty and unbiased, as always A lot of parents, too many parents if you ask me, mourn the end of the school year and cheer on the dawn of the next. You probably have, or will […]

Old Spice Giveaway For A Legendary Man
OWTK Giveaways

Old Spice Giveaway For A Legendary Man

I know that you know a legendary man. Maybe he’s your dad or maybe the husband of your children. Heck, maybe he is you. Maybe he/you smells amazing already…or maybe not. No matter, Old Spice and OWTK want to give him/you a legendary gift this month, the Old Spice smellegendary […]

What A Trip To Turkey Taught Us About The World
Travel

What A Trip To Turkey Taught Us About The World

It was on and then off. We were saddened at the lost chance to disembark the Carnival Vista in Turkey, to step out onto the Asian continent for the first time, but, at the same time, another day at sea on a port-packed voyage wasn’t the worst thing in the […]

Rebuilding Our Backyard of Fun Together
Parenting Blog

Rebuilding Our Backyard of Fun Together

Before we bought our first house, we looked at one house, this house. One of the reasons we bought the very first house we looked at some 13 years ago was its massive fenced-in backyard. We were still years away from becoming parents but it didn’t take too much in […]

Dads Share Their Kid’s First and Funniest Words
Parenting Blog

Dads Share Their Kid’s First and Funniest Words

Confession time, I haven’t the foggiest idea what either of my daughters’ first words were. I’d like to think each kid blurted out a loud & proud “dada!” because, well, duh, but I’d only be guessing. “Emancipation”? “Hummus”? “Let’s Go Red Wings!”? Maaaaaaaybe, but no, probably not. Jimmy Fallon, the […]

Hodgepodge

Yesterday Morning

The minor key drone of “City Ride” is bouncing off the molded plastic dashboard as the car shimmies at the red light, two turns away from home. To say the expression I’m wearing as I stare without purpose into the morning sunshine is blank would be giving it far too […]

Apply Now To Attend The 2017 Disney Dreamers Academy
Parenting Blog

Apply Now To Attend The 2017 Disney Dreamers Academy

The application window for the 2017 Disney Dreamers Academy is now open! If you’re the proud parent, grandparent or guardian of an outstanding high school kid, you need to encourage them to apply to be one of the fortunate 100 kids who will be chosen to attend the 2017 Disney […]

Complicated Donuts And A Fat Boy
Parenting Blog

Complicated Donuts And A Fat Boy

Donuts and I have a long, complicated history. Our story probably started before I can even remember. Maybe there was a happy, pudgy-faced young boy being driven to the local Dunkin’ Donuts on weekend mornings; his dad with the newspaper folded neatly under an arm, his mom with a cup […]

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