Get Carton Smart this Holiday Season

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carton Smart for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. My wife always tries to cook healthy for us when she can. That even includes our desserts. A number of times, she’s made us brownies that are fortified with… black beans. Yeah, beans. Thing is, you can’t even tell the difference! (Though to be fair… you can “smell” the difference a little later on.) She …

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A Night of Ice Skating Leads to a Sushi Feast

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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 …

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Win a $100 Walgreens Gift Card in the Hellmann’s Giveaway (Ends 12/12)

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In this life, I’ve found that there are two types of mayonnaise people: Those who like it and those who hate it. That is, I thought there were only two types until I met my future (and now current) father-in-law. Allie’s dad doesn’t just like mayonnaise, he loves it. But he doesn’t just love it, he downright worships it I’d say. Need an example? Last year when my in-laws took a trip to Spain, the one …

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Give Your Mouth a Party With Green Mountain Espresso Iced Latte

Believe it or not, I wasn’t always a big coffee drinker. To be honest, it wasn’t util my 30s most likely that I joined the caffeine chain gang. I always loved the coffee taste though. It was one of my favorite ice cream flavors as a kid and I used to love visiting my Grandma Pearl at her apartment in the Bronx. She had this funky candy dish on her coffee table that looked like …

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Star Wars Invades Breakfast with #CerealWars

“Use the fork, Luke.” Sorry. That joke’s a little Forced, isn’t it? And it really makes no sense in this instance because I’m talking about breakfast cereal. You don’t eat cereal with a fork. A spoon, yes. Fork? No. But “Use the spoon, Luke” doesn’t quite get the same set of laughs. Or eye rolls. Anyways, cereal. Raise your hand if you remember being a kid in the supermarket walking down cereal aisle. It’s a …

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