If you have children, you’ve lived a horror story or two. You know that bad things happen at night and that fear (of disease, of cheese curd vomit on your shoulder) drives anxiety. No one exemplifies the horror genre more than Stephen King. Below are 10 of his titles applied to parenting. It: What you […]
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Whiteboard Wednesday: Pardon Me?
Sometimes it’s the simple stuff. I’m not talking about foot rubs or walks on the beach or other centerfold “likes” (though I could if you want me to). I’m talking about simple words. Specifically, what comes spewing of my mouth. The other day, William remarked to his father: “Dad! We love mommy. We don’t like […]
Would you rather have dinner table conversation with your kids or __?
Last night over dinner, we played a game of Would-You-Rather. It’s less stressful than watching all stages of the digestive process in action. The premise of Would-You-Rather is simple: you give one person a choice of two equally tempting options. Kind of like would you rather snog George Clooney or Colin Firth? Only this is […]
Thing 1 & Thing 2's Excellent Adventure: Stop 6=Bay Area
Stop 6: Bay Area, California Host: Lizz Distance Logged Since Calgary: 9008 kms/5587 miles Next Stop: Saint Paul, Minnesota After their stop in Georgia, Thing 1 and Thing 2 decided to fly to the west coast, where they visited Lizz in California. Lizz blogs at Am I a Funny Girl? about her life with her […]
The 3 Types of Halloween Families
It’s the weekend before my children’s teeth fall out. Yes, Halloween. And I’ve compiled some heavy-duty anthropological research. To earn a mail-order PhD, I was originally going to research potato chip flavours of the world. Instead, I have crunched data, classifying people into 3 types of Halloween families. This was the topic of my humor […]
My Weekend in Tweets
Subtitle 1: Too Lazy-a$$ed To Write a Real Post Subtitle 2: Has Anyone Seen My Sense of Humour? It’s not much of a secret that I was at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference (#SiWC2011) this past weekend. I’ll blog more about the wow factor when I become coherent. With any luck, that will occur before […]
Daughters, Bad Breath, and Losing It
I’m pleased to bring you my first ever Whiteboard Wednesday Guest Post. Chad Jones is a hilarious dad of two who I suspect sticks his foot in his mouth nearly as often as I do. He blogs about the bizarre (and slightly-less-bizarre) aspects of faith as well as being both a dad and husband. The […]
Top Eight Reasons Not To Eat a Dog
I’ve been sick this week, not from eating dog, though that would be a nice example of cause-and-effect. Suffice it to say that my brain has been one gig short of a gigabyte. Still, I decided to do some grading. My Grade 8 students are near the end of a humour unit. Their penultimate assignment […]
Children in Cages
I’m sitting on our couch after work, one of those long days when 89% of my brain has already been sacrificed to middle school students. William is doing what he does best: babble incessantly about a fantasy world as though it’s more natural than Pamela Anderson’s breasts. Which it is. Will is holding his latest […]
Running Away from the Circus
I love the Cirque du Soleil. It gives me a sense of what it must be like to take an illegal substance. But Cirque du Soleil is not the circus. I hate the circus. It gives me a sense of what it must be like to need to take an illegal substance. If you want […]