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 … [Read more...] about Haff to Laff Spooktacular Family Costume Challenge
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How Much is Too Much Time Online?
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 and then went … [Read more...] about How Much is Too Much Time Online?
What Are Your Kids Drinking?
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 … [Read more...] about What Are Your Kids Drinking?
Keeping Our Kids Safer in the Wild West of the Web
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 … [Read more...] about Keeping Our Kids Safer in the Wild West of the Web
Caprese Chicken Sandwich & Grilled Salad with Help from Char-Broil Tru-Infrared Grills
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 … [Read more...] about Caprese Chicken Sandwich & Grilled Salad with Help from Char-Broil Tru-Infrared Grills
Talking With Your Kids About Online Safety.
After bouncing around from California to Maryland to Virginia chasing different jobs over the last nine years, Jen and I finally made a decision to find somewhere that we could call home for the long-term--instead of going where the jobs were, we decided to pull a play out of the “if you build it, … [Read more...] about Talking With Your Kids About Online Safety.
