You Will Not Believe What My 9-Year-Old Put in His Mouth

Allie is going to kill me. But us journalists have to tell it like it is. No hiding from the truth. So I’m going to put this out there. One of my lovely wife’s many amazing talents is that she can fit her fist in her mouth. Don’t think that’s a big deal? Go ahead. Try it. I can barely get one knuckle into my maw. But Allie? Yeah, she can pretty much get the …

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Canada Road Trip, Part 2 – Toronto Bound!

If you read my previous road trip post (Niagara Falls, Here We Come), you’ll know about the long, action-packed adventure we had crossing the border into Niagara Falls. If you didn’t, go read it now so you’re all caught up. No worries, I’ll wait. Okay, all caught up now? Good! Because the fun only continues from there! After spending about 24 hours in Niagara Falls, we hopped into the car (again, taking cousins Matt and …

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Watching Rocky With My Kids Was Painful, In a Good Way

This past weekend, our Family Movie Night turned into a Weekend Movie Marathon! Allie rented the first three Rocky movies and we successfully made it through ‘em all in roughly 24 hours. Surprisingly, all three held up nicely and I still enjoyed them thoroughly. I was pretty impressed with the picture quality too, considering these movies are a few decades old. Now I know the first one is a bit slow and we prefaced that …

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Canada Road Trip, Part 1 – Niagara Falls, Here We Come

Hitting Niagara Falls is something Allie and I have been talking about doing for years, and last month, we finally got to cross that one off our bucket list. Although, we nearly got deported in the process. Joining us on our cross-border quest was Allie’s cousin Ivy and her family (that’d be husband Ira and sons Matt and Ethan). They met us at our house bright and early to start our extended weekend trip. All four …

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I Put My Kids To Work in the Yard with Rubbermaid Roughneck

This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Weave Made Media® and Rubbermaid, but all my opinions are my own. #weavemade #FallFixUp http://my-disclosur.es/RgFrEH When I was a kid, one of my favorite seasons was the fall. Not just because the candy-filled Halloween was around the corner, but because it meant one thing: leaves. Piles and piles and piles of leaves. Seriously, is there anything more fun, more carefree, more innocent then …

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