This post is sponsored by The Motherhood, but all opinions expressed below are my own. Ask me this question 30 years ago and I’d have said “I’m born to be a chef — to cook, plate up beautifully, and serve tasty food made from scratch.” As a 9-year-old pup, I […]
My new blog post for Together Counts went live today, coincidentally on the day World Cup 2014 kicks off. In this article, I describe my ideal Father’s Day afternoon and serve up 3 simple ideas for you and your gang to spend quality time together while making papa feel loved. […]
I don’t have a gift yet. In fact, I was just reminded on Friday, by my mom, that Father’s Day was this coming Sunday. I’m not the brightest bulb. Thankfully, Sears is literally right around the corner from where I sit as I type this right now, and the retail […]
It was the kind of day from which postcards are born: blue skies, cool temps, big smiles, open minds, and kind hearts. We’d arrived at Pont du Gard in southern France with our eager 2 1/2-year-old daughter; eager to get out of her car seat, eager to run free, eager […]
I wanted to have Mouse’s school buds, the ones who came to her paint-yer-own-pottery party two weeks ago, over to the house for an end of school par-tay, a brief frolic in the meadow, er, backyard, to pick up their finished gnomes and glazed dragons, and to say fare-thee-well to […]
Quick, run-don’t-walk-but-don’t-trip-over-your-own-feet-ya-dunce to your local bookstore and buy your baby daddy a book that’ll make him misty-eyed from the copious amount of gut-laughter he’ll experience while reading it. *Note: this is the kind of book non-readers will like to read. I promise. Family-friendly (hehe) comedian Jim Gaffigan’s first book, Dad […]
We LOVE WordGirl here at OWTK HQ. Our DVR is set to record this brand new episode airing on Friday June 14, and I recommend you do the same. Find out exactly when and on what channel WordGirl will be on in your hometown. Read all about the new season of […]
Yeah, I know. Father’s Day is this Sunday, and boy wouldn’t it have been grand to have this giveaway end, say, last week instead of next week. Whatevs. You want some handsome steak knives or what? You gonna quibble over a few days on either side of a fictional holiday? […]
