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Glee Returns Tonight! Catch A Sneak Peek (VIDEO)

Glee returns tonight with it’s Yes/No episode where the increasingly annoying Mr Shue proposes to Miss Pillsbury and everyone breaks out into song and its all pure awesomeness! Then Glee goes all Grease in tonight’s ep too and while I … Continue…

Just Call Me Lynn Horton

On New Year’s Day, I made gluten-free, milk-free, egg-free, nut-free donuts. DONUTS. I felt like a culinary genius.

Gift Guide: Wooden Toys for Kids

As baby J is fast approaching his 1 year birthday so are a whole lot of his mini friends, so we are in full-blown gift buying season over here. I personally love wood toys.  They are timeless, well crafted and oh so cute!  They really do make the perfec

Dad Stories: “A Day With The Baby”

My life is probably not too different from most dads, I work Monday to Friday, forty to fifty hours a week, come home, eat, play with the baby, sleep.  My salvation and highlights are my weekends where I get to spend more meaningful time with my wife…

Why My Baby Won’t Nurse?

No this is not a riddle… its actually a real question.  As you might remember from this post on baby J’s infant sleep patterns, I also confessed about how the little guy refused to nurse, and was doing what I assumed to be self-weaning. …

Sink Or Swim?

TweetI held my breath and walked in.   There is just something about its smell that always makes me feel uneasy; reminding me of the times I’ve cried to and from the second floor. The elevator bounced when it stopped and the doors slid open. I…

Sink Or Swim?

I held my breath and walked in.   There is just something about its smell that always makes me feel uneasy; reminding me of the times I’ve cried to and from the second floor. The elevator bounced when it stopped and the doors slid open. I…

Smiles

I find it striking how my children can drive me absolutely around the bend, and yet they have the ability to turn me into absolute mush in a second with their smile. There is something sweet and innocent about their faces when they smile.  A glitter…

Toddlers are more than Tantrums

Over the past few weeks, Annie of PHD in Parenting has been hosting a Carnival of Toddlers with posts about sleep, food and everything in between for our little ones. The toddler age is an interesting one, no longer a baby, but still so little and young..

Dads & Boots

Yesterday Hubs picked up Little Boo from daycare before coming to get me at work. When they arrived I noted that my sweet 6 year old was wearing sneakers. In the snow.

Where the heck are his boots!? Oh, ok, there’s boots there next to the seat. We’ll..