I envy my son and other kids his age, particularly if they have a bent toward the more, shall we say, fantastical areas of fiction. And Nathaniel does, given that he inherited half his genes from me and the other half from his mother, who enjoys it almost as much as her nerd husband. Starting now, for instance, with the release of the latest Hobbit film he can watch the entire Tolkien series from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings without missing a beat. Unlike our generation, he can watch all … [Read more...]
Five ways to make your home a haven
We all know the stereotypes – ‘ball and chain,’ ‘old lady,’ the bartender telling the guys, “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here,” as if the bar were the ultimate guy haven, a place where nobody judges you and ‘everybody knows your name.’ After all, everybody KNOWS no guy in his right mind wants to go home to his wife, right? The roughly half of marriages that end in divorce is highly publicized, and the sheer unadulterated misery that the other 50% must go through is the stuff of … [Read more...]
Those Everyday Days
From the monumental day we say our wedding vows in front of God and all the people in our lives, our journeys together are generally marked by the big things – anniversaries, births, vacation trips, and even the tragic events that inevitably come our way. If each marriage had a road map of its own, they are the towns that lay along the road from the beginning to the time that death do us part. But, in between all those, between those landmark events, the ‘towns’ along our marriage path, lie … [Read more...]
Christmas is not for me!
It’s finally Christmas Day and, for the first time in weeks, I don’t have anything pressing to do. The sad thing is, I’m all alone… well, if you don’t count the coughing, feverish, fluid-spewing three-year old I just put down for a nap after praying a silent prayer that she would actually fall asleep instead of calling me for something every five minutes (“Daddy, I need ice in my water. Daddy, I need my pink bear, not my white bear, but the PINK one. Daddy, I need the princess music, not the … [Read more...]
Seven Tips For Easier Kitchen Clean Up
We are honored again have the guest poster today on the awesome website Stacy Makes Cents!! Please join us over there for some great tips to make your kitchen clean-up experience easier! … [Read more...]
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