I often direct people to our list of ideas for family bonding and talk about spending quality time together. As someone who tries to find the positive in situations, I’ve been thrilled that the 10+ week quarantine has provided familie ...
When I enjoy something, I tend to get obsessive about it. If it’s a board game, I’ll want to play it over and over. A television show becomes the one I suggest every time we sit down on the couch. Video game? I’ll offer to ...
Once again, a board game has taught me that you’re never too old to learn something. As I’ve said like one thousand times here, history was never my thing in school. I hated all the reading. I struggled with the memorization. I ...
I really need to be more attentive at making sure my kids are ready to enter the real world. I’ve given advice on how to drive, made a point of teaching teens how to tip and helped prepare for a college fair. We have been pretty ...
If you’ve ever heard of Laverne and Shirley or Mork and Mindy, you are witness to one of the most common practices in television marketing: spin-offs. More current examples would be Mixed-ish and Grown-ish, a couple shows in ABC’ ...
Last year at this time I was lamenting how busy our schedule is at this time of year. In the same breath, I was commenting on how much I appreciate some of the unique opportunities the girls have. Each year, the freshmen band participates i ...
Seems like every time I turn around there is another political issue making the news. Sometimes it’s one political side embroiled in scandal and the next minute it’s the other. Social media and opinionated media outlets have tur ...
As someone who left the traditional workspace to raise kids, the stay at home mandates haven’t been too different for my indoor life. The better part of my days are spend in front of the computer working on this website, doing househo ...
Last week we set out as detectives to solve mysteries in Chronicles of Crime. Searching crime scenes, examining clues and interrogating suspects were a few of the things we tackled as we attempted to close the cases. While we thoroughly enj ...
Throughout the course of my life, I’ve been fortunate to live in a variety of types of cities. I grew up in a rural area and went to the elementary school in a small town that had no stoplights, a volunteer fire department and a gener ...
