Build a WHAT???

Everyone should have to attend a Build-a-Bear party at least once, if only to remind those without children why they don’t want them. Hard core cases might consider working there.

i went to the zoo and it sucked

Sometimes, you take the kids to the zoo and not one critter is available for your viewing pleasure, or they’re out but they just lay there like logs, or they’re not doing anything you want to have to explain to the kids so you walk past the monkey enclosure very fast. Take the kids home […]

It’s good to have goals…

It’s good to have goals, particularly if you’re a young, impressionable, gonzo 8-yr-old like Number One Son.  Coming up on the end of second grade, he’s declared his major – Pre Med.  He’s decided that he really wants to be a surgeon when he grows up.  (His idea of a good time is watching "Trauma: […]

Why do the good die young? To get to the other side!

It’s often been noted that great artists and poets and scientists and that ‘creative’ lot seem to do their best work early in life.  (When John Keats was my age, for example, he’d been dead for 14 years.)  This was hammered home to me this morning as I cooked bacon and eggs for SOBUMD, the […]

What Would Pink Bear Do?

So there I was, contemplating good excuses for not having updated the Big Ugly Man Doll in way too long, when I was called away to Duty. And by Duty, I mean putting the kids to bed.  Originally, SOBUMD and I decided, by which I mean she told me, that I should be the one to […]