This Saturday (December 8, 2012) marks the first night of Hanukkah. Or Chanukah. Take your pick. It’ll be a night filled with candles, potato latkes, chocolate gelt, and whiny kids screaming, “Is it present time yet?” To get you in the festive mood, I’ve scoured the internet high and low for all sorts of Hanukkah ha-has. Sadly, there wasn’t as much as I expected. So put down that dreidel (You were about to spin a Shin anyways) …
Last night after Allie put the kids to bed (let’s say around 8:30), she started making Hanukkah cookies for our family party this weekend. About an hour later, Ryan comes downstairs to say he finished reading his book, saw what we were doing and insisted he help. Fast forward 20 minutes or so, and big brother Jason comes down to follow suit. Who needs sleep, right?
I used to hate zombies. Or rather, was extremely apathetic about them. I worked in the comic book industry and friends and co-workers constantly told me to pick up The Walking Dead. But I never bothered. Dawn of the Dead Resident Evil. None of this stuff did anything for me. Then I read World War Z by Max Brooks, and everything changed. (I highly recommend you read the book before the Brad Pitt-starring movie comes …
While Allie was off working this weekend, the boys and I spent some time in the playroom. It’s loaded with more toys than you can imagine. Or maybe you can, if you’ve got kids of you’re own… We really need to clean out some of the games in there, since we still have a lot of older ones from when the boys were really little. But then again, we had a blast today playing Operation …
My nephew Matthew is a huge baseball fan. I don’t just mean he loves rooting for the Yankees (smart kid), but he lives, breathes, and if he could, would eat baseball. Matthew’s head is pretty much like an Encylopedia Baseballtanica. Just full of facts and figures about ball players you’ve never even heard of. For anyone to be that motivated and that fascinated by baseball history is just impressive, especially when that someone is a …
