Dark Side of the Carton

My last post kind of left the story hanging about my adventure in assembling the Sunray 2008 Playsystem. I apologize as life showed up and booted me in the gut with a bevy of far more important tasks.
As a brief recap to the previous adventure, I worked my rump off all day Sunday trying to [...]

I don’t typically consider myself a spontaneous person. I tend to lean more towards the end of the spectrum that relies on careful planning over the last second get up and go. I went against that this past Saturday when I decided on a whim that we needed a new swingset for the backyard. The [...]

I realize that for babies there is something inherently soothing about sucking on that little overpriced piece of silicone and plastic, but god I hate the things. When you don’t need the thing it is always under foot and getting stepped on, but when you need one they are nowhere to be found. Like in [...]

Over the Christmas break I took some time to unplug. I didn’t update this site at all and I only made a few minor posts over at SBG. The Cover Project admins were hard at work, like they always are, so there were some updates there.
By and large I tried to stay away from the [...]

The hardest part of being a parent is the discipline. On one hand, you love your kids and don’t want to have to punish them. On the other hand, they can be rotten little hellions and you don’t want to see them blossom into full grown hellions. Thus it is your job to intervene and [...]

Talking to my 3yr old son more often than not results in me staring at him in amazement. If the child were 5, he would posses an astounding vocabulary for his age. The fact that he has a vocabulary this wide at age 3 truly makes me wonder about him sometimes. On the way to [...]

Toy makers these days are full of wonderful ideas. I mean, who wouldn’t want their kids playing with toys coated in lead paint and little dots that are akin to your children poppin’ ruffies. Looking through a recent toy catalog, my wife and I saw one of the worst ideas for a children’s toy I’ve [...]