EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Laffy Taffy and their #HaffToLaff ‘Spooktacular Family’ Costume Challenge, but the shame and partial embarrassment are completely mine. There were so many years before we had kids that I lived up to my name ‘Mr. Procrastinator.’ If you ask my wife it’s still the best adjective by far to describe…
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I grew up in an era when there were only a few things that people did each day. And I’m not THAT old. You got up and read the paper while you ate breakfast. Then you went to work, then you came home. You had dinner, talked as a family – maybe watched a TV program or the news together…
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Before having children of our own, we had an incredibly grandiose idea about what we were going to do, how we were going to parent, and after watching hours and hours of parenting fail videos – what we were “never, ever” going to do. But let’s be real: it’s always easier to parent before you have little ones or after…
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It’s been a few years since I’ve been able to think about hopping on a plane to go back to my old stomping grounds in Los Angeles. With all of our jumping around from Maryland to Virginia and now Tennessee WHILE having young kids and raising a family – it simply became more and more difficult. In the event that…
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Grilling during the summer is something that I’m sure a lot of us look forward to, however, I sing a bit of a different tune. The middle-Tennessee heat is relentless and the last few weeks have seen us under advisories with a heat index 105°+. So unless you have some sort of overhead cover (which I now finally have), it’s…
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