November 30, 2016: Introducing Scott’s Holiday Advent Blog!

This is a fun, little holiday project that I’ve been doing more or less for the past five years, so now that I’ve dedicated this site as my attempt at DAILY BLOGGING, I suppose it makes only sense that an advent blog of sorts would fit best over here rather than on my regular blog. The idea is simple – every…

September 30, 2016: Scary Halloween

To inversely quote Homer Simpson – “I prefer funny Halloween, not scary Halloween!” Seriously, WTF is up with these decorations that I found at Target this afternoon, and what would Cleo think if she found a dog skeleton just laying around the house?! 😯 Maybe it all stems back to an incident that I had trick or treating when I was…

July 4, 2016: Sweaty Family Fun

And here I just finished writing something about Disney World being way too busy on Independence Day to visit … so where do you think that I ended up yesterday?! 😯 It ended up being very much a last-minute, impromptu trip – we didn’t even walk into the park until sometime after 7pm, but as Christopher’s auntie is moving away…

June 19, 2016: Father’s Day III … With a Vengeance

The best laid plans still don’t stand a chance against a cranky toddler! Cranky may not even be the right word … it’s just surprising how last fall when we took one year-old Christopher to see The Peanuts Movie, he absolutely loved every minute of it and was pretty much glued to his seat from start to finish,…

Mar 27, 2016: Having a Ball!

We learned a valuable lesson today – when one desires to get nice, family photos out of a group of kids, it’s best to take those photos early in the day and not several hours past nap time… 😛 Still, it’s nice to see that Christopher enjoys playing with his cousins now that they’re close enough that visitation doesn’t require a…