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 […]
My town, which is less a town and more a series of strip malls strung together with a garland of traffic lights, received an outpost of the Kiwi Yogurt to call its very own. My general vicinity now has three of these self-serve, pay per ounce, family owned frozen yogurt […]
I watched the Dove Men+Care / Dad 2.0 conversation about fatherhood this morning. Did you? I hope so, it was all kinds of terrific. In between wishing so bad that I was there to participate live and in person, I listened intently to Doug French and Doug Flutie lead a lively […]
As a student with a > 85% composite grade, she needn’t do her homework, but, she should be doing her homework, ya know? The Bear has been developing piss-poor homework-doing habits over the past few weeks, and my on-purpose habit of not helicoptering about my children isn’t doing her any […]
Here’s the one where I make myself the Soup Nazi of kid’s allowances, so that’d be the Allowance Nazi, I guess. My girls haven’t received their weekly allowance ($3 / Bear, $2 / Mouse) for months. Sitting here trying to conceive of this post, I cannot actually remember the last […]
