When you’re a parent, you soon realize that “planning is for the childless.” Sure you can try your best to be somewhere on time but chances are that someone’s sick, can’t find their shoes or really needs to go to the bathroom. It just comes with the territory. Let’s take my Saturday for example. I did some work in the morning, gave the kids lunch and then sat down with them to work on a …
Meet Audrey from Barking Mad Blogger: Audrey Blog Name: Barking Mad, Magnificently Flawed What are you barking mad about? “Barking Mad” is a British euphemism for insanity or craziness. My husband is British and I had lived over in the UK before and after we were married. I’d hear the phrase during the course of conversation or on British television, and it always made me giggle. When Gareth married me in 2003, he became step-father …
Last week when it was, what, like 40 degrees out, Ryan picked tennis as our family activity. It’s tough to say no (even when it’s freezing out) if your kid asks you to do something that’s physically active. So this week, it’s even colder. Closer to 30 degrees or so. And thankfully for this weekend’s family activity, we got to be indoors. Whew. But yeah, we ended up going ice skating! There’s a nice ice …
This featured post was brought to you by Sam Peters Nobody but nobody thinks that moving is fun. In fact, it’s probably a safe bet to say that most of us avoid moving like the plague it is. Still, sometimes you have to move. Maybe you’re moving for work. Maybe you’re moving for family reasons. Maybe you’re simply sick of your stupid town and its stupid stuff and you really want something new and, luckily …
SPECIAL ‘MOMMY’S BUSY GO ASK DADDY’ GUEST STAR EDITION! It’s said that behind every good man, there’s a good woman. Well, I’ll go one step further and say behind every great blog is a greater woman. In the case of Mommy’s Busy Go Ask Daddy, that’d be my beautiful wife Allison. Besides putting up with my earthquake-like snoring and insane comic book geekiness, Allie’s a Master Baker. Forget that Play-Doh like Fondant garbage. (Have you …
