If I asked you what one of the most anticipated days of the year is, what would be your answer? I know when I was a kid, Christmas or my birthday were the top two days I couldn’t wait for. Of course the last day of school also ranked ...
If you’ve been to our site for over a week, you hopefully have stumbled across our regular Sunday “Thrift Treasure” series devoted to showcasing the awesome games we find at thrift stores. Scott has been been dedicated for ...
I want to share a little story with you. For many years when my girls were little, once a year each, they would receive an envelope in the mailbox (you know, that box that attaches to your house or is somewhere on the street near your house ...
You’d have to have been living under a rock to not know about the mega-hit app, Pokemon Go. I have been absolutely amazed how many random people we see playing it when we’re out and about. Doesn’t matter where – in a ...
I don’t want to speak for Scott, but since that’s what I normally do anyhow, why should this be an exception? We’ve mentioned before that we met at a Cubs game in St. Louis back in 1990. But even before that, we were both ...
You’ve likely heard the phrase “They don’t make ’em like they used to.” There aren’t many things that are made as well now as they were back in the olden days. I think we owned the same appliances through ...
Not much longer and we will have a steady stream of warm weather. Not this funky bipolar stuff that Mother Nature has been giving us. It’s April and we have snow in the forecast. How crazy is that? Scott and I work from home and lousy ...
Just about every family I know owns more than one electronic device. Either both parents have phones or there’s a phone and a tablet. There’s a multitude of combinations, but the premise of my original comment holds true: famili ...
It’s a parent’s job to be a perpetual cheerleader for the entire family. Parents need to find ways to pull out the best abilities in education, pursuit of the arts and socially. However, the most prominent place where we see the ...
You know those pictures of teens and tweens with electronics surgically (not really, but really) attached to their fingers? Well it’s true. We have two living, breathing examples of it in our own home. Don’t get me wrong, I̵ ...
