I’m not entirely sure what happened over the last month; it sort of just whipped by.A rundown of what’s been going on:Sadly, I still have Christmas gifts that I still have to mail. As a matter of fact, I’m looking at them now.We bought a house "l...

One of the more challenging aspects of being a parent is figuring out how to incorporate traditions from each others upbringing. For the most part my wife and I have compromised well since first becoming parents three and a half years ago. As an example, her family exchanged all of ...

As a parent, two stories I would like to tell better are the story of 9/11 and the story of Christmas. With the former, I’m still trying to get it “just right.” Both my children were born after 9/11 (my older one just nine months after). They a...

Don’t Cry or Pout. Last Minute Shopping Doesn’t Have to Stress You Out The holidays can be a wonderful time or togetherness and celebration and it can also be a time of stress and anxiety. Don’t let the rush and excitement of the season allow you...

Here is a Merry Christmas from Joy and Olivia! The girls are getting excited, first year that Joy got to help wrap gifts. Of course she wanted to wrap a gift for herself, but she is starting to understand a little. When Jenn told Olivia that the gift was for ...

For the holidays, Netflix is streaming Miracle on 34th Street with Edmund and Natalie. With the recent brouhaha over kids being told by a teacher that there is no Santa, it felt OK to repost what I wrote last year around this time on my Cranial Gunk b...

Clearly it's the holiday season. The stores unveiled their displays before back before we'd even carved our pumpkin. Canned music everywhere pipes out the Little Drummer Boy and Jingle Bells. Retailers are bombarding us with promises of savings for a d...