What am I on a fiscal calendar? What’s up with the year in review in August?It’s been just about 1 year since I left corporate America for a different kind of job. I’ve been home with my 2 girls since 8/22/08 and we’ve had our share of fun and of, […]
= hours upon hours of imagination-expanding f…f…FUN! Months back I scoffed at the idea of spending $100+ on a stupid cardboard box. In that piece I advocated spending a little extra to get a new refrigerator, which always comes with a complimentary, sturdy box. I totally forgot that a lawn […]
Join OWTK and thousands of other parents in signing a petition to insist that schools abandon their practice of buying factory farm/hormone laden milk. Encourage Congress, via federal nutrition programs, to make wiser milk purchasing decisions for our children, opting instead for hormone free, organic milk products. A grass fed […]
I didn’t stock up on bottled water or buy a power generator before Y2K. I made no plans to carry a rifle and hunt for my own food beginning on 1/1/2000. As a rule, I tend to not freak out when stuff like Bird Flu, SARS or what-have-you dominates the […]
Two Sundays ago the Mrs, the Bear and I built our own raised veggie garden. It’s a 3×6 rectangle and 10 inches deep. This isn’t our first trip down vegetable road. We failed miserably last year, our patch being overtaken by weeds and bugs. We didn’t understand much about how […]
Thingamababy is a great blog almost every day, but today the site has published the perfect parental blog post. Go read Thingamababy right now.
How far we’ve come. What was once this country’s greatest of past times has become, for a gaggle of red-blooded American youngsters, nothing more than an antiquated nuisance. It was the sound of baseball that first captivated me. Throughout much of the 80’s and 90’s I’d practically snuggle up with […]
Wednesday, March 25th 2009 sucked. The plans weren’t grandiose. We were heading out to Hershey, PA (the sweetest place on Earth, or so they say) for a day of activities inside Chocolate World. The folks from the Zoo were scheduled to be there with baby animals. Hershey Garden(ers) would be […]
