Wow - this Christmas season has flown by. Honestly, I don't know where the hell the days have gone. Well, here it is Christmas Eve and I'm posting the last of this year's cards. Thanks to everyone who decided to have some fun and send theirs in - it wa...

The family and I were at Disney World for a week. And if that wasn’t enough, we spent an additional 4 days and 3 nights on a Disney Cruise in the Bahamas. At this moment, I don’t want to see anything that remotely resembles a Mickey silhouette for ...

Hey we're expecting another little boy in April. We are the very proud parents of a two year old boy so we're all kinds of excited to be honest. That being said, what's a couple tips that you wish someone would've told you when your second kid arrived...

So the Dubyas had a Kickin' Ass with Rankin/Bass party yesterday. Notable attendees? Clare's Dad, et.al., the mayor, Little Bear and sundry others. Not a bad turnout despite the weather. It is, once again, snowing but we have plenty of food, plenty of ...

Last week I posted about my abnormal obsession with finding the perfect tree. I suppose that's the first step in recovery - admitting that you have a problem. And I do, I really do have a problem. Case in point: Last weekend we were invited to an open ...

BUMP: Re-post from December 2005For the most part, I consider myself a fairly laid-back kind of guy, as I'm sure most of you consider yourselves. I don't get all that fired up about much really. In fact, about the only things that do get my knickers ...

I should have been more suspicious when my daughter ran up to me with open arms and a big smile, yelling “daddy”, and hugged me while I was eating my breakfast. As it was all a preconceived facade to wipe her runny nose all over my new black shirt ...

And heeeerrrre we go.This really is one of my favorite times of year. And since we've had children, it has only been better. Last year, the whole Santa thing started to kick in a bit for Little Dubs - there was some understanding but he hadn't yet deve...

What the hell? Rather than try and come up with some creative way of describing The Mantel™, I figured I would just recycle a post from 2006. Yeah, I'm lazy. What of it?A couple of weeks back, I mentioned I would once again be the Internetoweboblogosphere's ...

One of the benefits to cyber schooling is having the opportunity to be directly involved in a child's education. Indeed, in the younger grades, it is essential to be the teacher (small 't') whereas the Teacher is a person whom the student converses wit...