My late morning tossing and turning ritual that has become waaaaaay too commonplace, together with the faulty-snowblower snoring pattern of my wife, conspired to prop open my eyes at the ungodly hour of 5:30 AM on Saturday. In a pre-dawn haze of sleepy eyes and weary thoughts, I saw a […]
“The last thing any suburban middle class child needs is another stuffed animal.” — Me Meet our two new stuffed animals, Jenny Dee and Onion. That’s right, Onion…in a cowboy hat. What? I’m weak, don’t judge. I’ve been traveling a lot over the course of the past few months, far […]
Leftovers are boring. Like, historically boring. The prospect of eating leftovers for dinner on any night but especially on a FRIDAY NIGHT! is akin to watching grass grow, paint dry, and the 2015 Phillies at the plate. We’re talking supreme, turn it up to 11 level of boring when it […]
OWTK is a compensated brand ambassador for TracFone’s #TracFoneFamily campaign. All opinions expressed below are honest and unbiased, as always. Young kids and cellphones. Not quite Pandora’s Box, but things can get heated when parents holding opposing viewpoints square off over the how, when and why of it all […]
This is how to road trip. Give them stickers and duct tape and pipe cleaners and scissors and glue and tape and…don’t turn around. They will have the time of their lives and you will, well, you will stay sane. This photo of the mouse is from day 1. It […]
It’s not a metaphor. It’s the City Museum in St. Louis, where holding on is every bit as essential as letting go. There’s no place better to be a child in America than this rough and tumble wonderland. Read more about City Museum and other family fun spots in and […]
Two young women, two silhouettes, ready for adventure, together, hand in hand, with the whole of the wild west out in front of them as they stand beneath the St. Louis Arch.
We felt it before day one, on back to school night…or maybe it was meet the teacher night…either way: the Mouse’s 2nd grade teacher was destined to be the kind of educator name-dropped decades later, when Mouse is reflecting back on what first prompted her to [insert great accomplishment verb […]
