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Looky, Daddy!
Eating Crayons, Pooping Rainbows
This is my last post for Looky, Daddy! I've written this post many times over the past few months. I've written it like a guy composing a breakup speech to his girlfriend for no real defensible reason except that when......
There's Nothing Smart About Taking a Kid with Epilepsy to See Fireworks
There's nothing smart about taking a kid with epilepsy to see fireworks. So we do it. We stay up hours past her bedtime and explode lights in her face, like participants in a demented researcher's clinical study. We load her......
Summer posts will be scarce. There's not much to be said about that. Last year I bravely promised a drink recipe a week just to keep you coming back, and I managed a whole five of those before summer drowned......
I wasn’t yet asleep when my dad came into my room and asked for my help. If he did this now, it wouldn’t be that surprising—a man in his sixties has a multitude of uses for a man in his......
You Wish You Knew How to Quit Me
I shared how the twins got their names over on nameberry today. Don't click if you named your kids Hester....
So apparently, when your child's behavior is controlled by anti-seizure meds, you're not supposed to yell at her for it. Which sucks. As a general rule, my parenting style is pretty straight forward: Misbehavior met with swift retribution. I learned......
Raging Dad
If I belong, then I’ll be longer than expected
Wow. Has it really been two months since my last post? Yikes. Earlier this summer, I was proclaiming my blogging mojo to be lost. I’m pretty sure this is now beyond that. Has my blogging mojo been castrated? I was thinking the other day, how on earth did I muster up the focus and...
WW: Running ’round the punkin patch
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Clean, real clean. Like my conscience.
Is anyone else fascinated with teaching your kids to say funny stuff, for your own amusement? Come on. You know you do it. A buddy of mine had it all set, so that when he would say to his daughter, “Stop!” she’d reply, “Hammer time.” Brilliant. When I got home from work...
I have this sore spot inside my left nostril that just kills. Every year, when the summer’s warmth begins to fade and the cooler weather approaches, it opens up with a yawn as if eagerly greeting the day with a toothy smile. Just when I am ready to bid farewell...
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The Man Page
Sparking an Idea Thursday : How To Finish What You Start!
Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know...
The Legacy of One Young Man Remains Strong This Father’s Day
Within 24 hours, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation Can Give a Family Hope and Relief This Father’s Day Father’s Day takes a moment out of the year and our increasingly hectic lives to recognize all the special Dads and father figures who have provided us with love, guidance, and...
Spark An Idea Thursday : How To Show Appreciation For Your Clients
Welcome to ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know...
Father’s Day Giveaway: Skin Care Gadget for Dad
Dads, here’s your chance to win a Clarisonic Skin Care System. Here’s the down low on our Father’s Day Giveaway prize: Clarisonic Skin Care recognizes that men are just as discerning about their grooming products as women are. Created by the inventor of the Sonicare toothbrush, the Clarisonic uses sonic technology and...
My name is Nick Bostic, I’m one of the Sparkplugging interns and I’m a PC. The fact that I’m a PC has been further solidified lately and is part of the reason you haven’t seen me here yet. Apple has been killing my PC. Let me back up a moment… I grew...
Joeprah Twitter: @joeprah A great blog about a stay at home dad and his family. Discovering Dad Twitter: @jnbammer Discovering what it means to be a dad. Building Camelot Twitter: @buildingcamelot Helping men become better dads & husbands. The Nordquist Blog Twitter: @akula Brett is one of the most underrated Daddy bloggers on the planet. Sincere and eloquent, he chronicles...
Cheeky's Hideaway
Looks Like Someone Was in a Hurry
My brother sent me this today. He was at Microsoft this morning and spotted this. I wonder if they'll be blaming a faulty accelerator. Or Windows Vista....
What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
Usually this time of year I start compiling my annual awards list, coveted by so many as acknowledgement that the 1,179,091st most popular blog on the internet has admired or condemned your work. In years past I've handed awards to......
The Obligatory Halloween Pictures: 2009 Edition
Behold, Fairy Princess Princess Butterfly Cinderella Butterfly Princess!...
THIS is Why those Damn Princesses Scare the Bejesus Out of Me
I've mentioned my deep distrust of Disney--and its sub-context of feminine enslavement--before, but for those of you deaf to my pleas this should help bring some clarity to my concerns. Just one more reason to introduce Cheeky to Star Wars.......
Like a Kelsey Grammar Show, And Unfortunately Just as Funny
Apparently you forget a few things when you live in a city apartment for a decade. Like what to do with all that shit in your yard that can't be mowed. Or how far away things are when you leave......
It's Cure JM Day...what are YOU gonna do about it?
My boy, Kevin of Always Home and Uncool, has asked me to post this as part of his effort to raise awareness in the blogosphere of juvenile myositis, a rare autoimmune disease his daughter was diagnosed with on this day......
snowdeal.org > ex machina
the case of the disappearing chromatophores.
we've had a fish tank with two humble goldfish for nearly ten years. soon after putting both fish the in the tank, one of the fish lost all its color which we thought little of since its not unusual for goldfish to change/shift color over their lives. the...
unnamed, green buddish plant thing that caught my eye.
everyone was so helpful with the hoar frost identification/nomenclature, i thought i'd test my luck and see who wants some bonus points by identifying this plant that was in a holiday arrangement. after sitting in water for a month the branches have begun leafing out and budding. it...
raspberry brambles after a foggy, frosty morning. anyone know if this type of foggy, frosty formation has a specific name? update:it's hoar frost - thanks! ...
the eric update - day 2017: odin's 2010 good energy raffle!
odin's 2010 "good energy" raffle - win $4,000 and an extra special bonus prize ( deadline: feb. 11th, 2010 ) http://snowdeal.org/raffle/ ...
the eric update - day 2014: Odin The Blower of Snow!
only a month has passed but the days of being, Odin The Shoveler of Snow are surely gone forever. he asked if he could try the snow blower while we were out clearing the sidewalks after getting a 4 or so inches of snow. "sure!" i replied, quite...
the eric update - day 2012: odin reads his very first book on his own!
while we, of course, have been reading to odin nearly every day of his life today was the very first day that he read an entire book all by himself. "the sad cat" from the from the bob books series. i guess to give himself a challenge, he...
Discovering Dad
Servant Leadership and Fatherhood
Implementing the 5 Ways of Being to my role as a father has both challenged and enhanced the relationship I have with my kids. At times, it would be easier to abandon these principles in favor of an easier path, perhaps something along the lines of Bill Cosby's comedic...
While it may seem like more work to have your kids helping to prepare a meal, and it often is – particularly when they’re little – in the end you’ll benefit from having a helper, someone who will be self-sufficient, and who might even cook dinner for you once in...
Discovering Dad Blog Carnival – January 2010
Welcome to the January 2010 edition of Discovering Dad Blog Carnival. The Discovering Dad Blog Carnival is a monthly carnival that includes fun and informative posts about unique experiences, perspectives and challenges of being a dad. It also includes posts that talk about the impact of dads on the...
Discovering Dad Wins Fantasy Football Dad League
It's official! Discovering Dad has won the Fantasy Football Dad League hosted by fellow dad blogger Pat from Annoyingly Boring! Playing in a fantasy league definitely helps to make the football season more exciting to watch. While my favorite team is the Ravens (my team name is...
New Year Quotes to Inspire Dad
The dawning of a New Year always brings me hope. And while I'm not one to make resolutions, I do believe in the importance of goals, inspiration and motivation. To me, it is critical for husbands and fathers to set a positive tone and example for the family,...
Clark Kent's Lunchbox
A Second Round Of Sugar Milk With John Cave Osborne
Today is part 2 of the interview with John Cave Osborne, author of the very funny Tales From The Trips: How Three Babies Turned Our World Upside-Down. (If you'd like to read part 1 click here.) So, we'll pick up right where we left off, with John about to explain...
Lady Gaga + 6 Year Old = Bad Romance
Allie and Avery have been grounded from TV, the computer and video games this past week for wrecking our portable DVD player (a post unto itself) during our trip to Denver. In the meantime, they've been forced to come up with creative ways with which to fill the hours. Armed...
Just Another Manscape Monday: Cure JM
Coldplay - New Music - More Music VideosI'm a glutton for punishment it would seem, because yes, I have decided to run a new edition of Just Another Manscape Monday - the post where you get to make fun of me for tweezing and trimming those hirsute nether regions, ...
So I'm waiting to get a haircut and flipping through a parenting magazine when, there it was: another ode to the mommy bloggers article. Well, isn’t that just special. This is the same thought I had last month perusing a published list of the Top 50 Mommy Bloggers, and it’s...
A Glass Of Sugar Milk With John Cave Osborne
One of the goals I established at the beginning of the year for the Lunchbox, was to promote community. There are a number of other bloggers out there who do a great job of this, one of whom is Matt at DC Urban Dad, and, with his permission, I'm stealing...
Just Another Manscape Monday: Haiti
This might turn out to be the worst idea I've ever had or I might make it a regular thing where I try to cheer everyone up at the beginning of the week by allowing them to poke fun of me for tweezing, and trimming, and using hair products while...
Rice Daddies
Listening to Rosanne Cash speak at the Times Center got me thinking about what “The List” I give my children would look like? What kind of intellectual/cultural legacy will I leave for them? What legacy will I be able to forge for them? My father and I do...
I caught this article linked by the fine people of BicoastalBitchin.Alls I gotta say is that the writer hit the nail right flat on the head. This was my favorite sentence:When baby makes three, the abrupt lifestyle change spells an end to these spontaneous expeditions.Age three is the magic number,...
So I guess they're remaking "The Karate Kid", with Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith playing the Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio roles. And from the looks of this trailer, the movie's set in China, the ancient land of mean-eyed wushu-trained boys and demure violin-playing girls. During the course of the flick, Jackie...
I remember our first Christmas together. I had gotten her one of those hand-held electric back massagers (which she asked me to return). She had gotten me a DVD player (which we had to buy a new TV to accommodate). And we had a...
So many changes come along with bringing a baby into the house. We've done as much as we can to prepare and now with 40 weeks gone by, a new little bundle of responsibility has again been thrust upon us. We find ourselves having the same conversations we had when...
So my brother recently alerted me to this recent NY Times piece about parents using techniques they learn from TV host Cesar Millan on their children. If you aren't familiar with Cesar, he's the man behind the mega popular National Geographic show "Dog Whisperer." So as you can see, the...
Out-Numbered
My oldest daughter and I are very musical people.We both love to sing and perform.For her 5th birthday, I bought her a microphone and an amplifier. She uses it all the time. We have guitars in the house, a piano, keyboards and all sorts of musical influences, that serve as...
Dear Mr. Diner Owner,I am writing to you today in the hopes that I will be able to offer some humble, constructive criticism. The suggestions I am offering are merely observations and not meant in any way to be disrespectful. I have always been a loyal patron of your establishment...
The Three D's Of Being A Dad...
Sometimes being a Dad is dangerous. Sometimes it's delightful. Other times, it's delicious.DangerousOn Saturday night, I got slugged in the face by a bedazzled purse filled with Chucky Cheese Tokens. Yep that's right. My 7 year old filled her purse with about 50 gold tokens and tossed it, in all...
Nuts and Popcorn On The 7:41...
OK. I'm going to be honest here.I had something I wanted to write about but I'm having a hard time concentrating.A few months ago, I started doing most, if not all of my writing on the train. It's the only time, aside from late at night, that I have to...
"Everyone in the world has one special thing that makes them different.Sometimes you can see it and sometimes you can’t.But it’s there."There once was a young Billy Goat that had no gruff.He felt embarrassed by this.His friends would tease him because he was different. They told him he was weird.His...
It's Eating Her Brain. I'm Eating Potato Chips...
I am a bad parent.I have been lying on the couch, watching football all afternoon. My wife is out with my youngest daughter. I am home alone with my 7 year old.I haven't fed her lunch or even checked on her in quite some time. She knows where we hide...
mattdaddy.net
I’ve haven’t been writing a whole lot lately because of some major releases at work. Nervous, paranoid, and stressed, but truthfully I think the fallout will be minimal and manageable and I’m freaking myself out for no real reason. Got a big one on Friday and when it’s...
Take a minute. Take 5. Slow down, you’re moving way too fast. Got to make the morning last… heh, sorry. Sometimes my fingers just keep typing. We sometimes run through life so quickly that we don’t take the time to smell the flowers…or is it roses? ...
Since Gillian has been diagnosed with Celiac disease, we’ve been trying to find ways to get her to eat more diverse foods than gluten free(gf) mac and cheese and gf grilled cheese and grilled chicken. I knew enough to download a translated card from the Celiac Disease foundation that...
I’ve been so busy lately that I didn’t even realize it’s been a while since I updated. I think I’ve been waiting for enough time to download the pics and movies I took the other day when I made sushi for the first time with Gillian. Tre yummy btw if...
Hair? No, sorry. No references to CSNY today. Actually I’m growing a goatee, not sure about it tho. Hmm, I should take a pic when I get home. No, this is in reference to cutting something else. I’ve been having issues with my elbow that make it next to impossible to practice...
Okay, so we got Lackey, Scutaro, Cameron, Hermida, and now Beltre. We lost Alex Gonzales & even more importantly, Jason Bay. I’m not sure we’re all that much better off for next season. I think Scutaro is better than Alex Gonz, so that’s positive. Surprised that happened, but it seems like...
Nordquist Blog
The rain was coming down at a pace that didn’t match my wipers: Too much for intermittent but not enough for the slowest setting. But that didn’t bother me today because having to flip the stalk every few seconds kept me alert during my drive up the mountain. Once I...
Luca reached her arms towards me like she does each night. She’s our oldest child but the only one who will not go down unless mom and dad tuck her into bed each evening. Just a few feet below Luca on the bottom bunk was Anna. She doesn’t have the...
Luca invited me to spend the afternoon with her class on a field trip to the White River Valley Museum this afternoon. The two 3rd grade classes broke up into four groups, and we made our way around the exhibits with the help of volunteers. We listened to many stories...
I didn’t know that Seth Godin had released a new book called “Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?” until I read his blog this morning. I found it on Amazon but am going to wait until it comes to iTunes as an audiobook. While browsing the Huffington Post tonight I came across...
Never Accept A Ride From A Gorilla
I don’t remember if I was in first or second grade. What I do remember is that I was with my friend who lived two houses down from mine. She was a girl and girls were not cool. But she owned the first Schwinn bike I’d seen, and that was very...
Which of the four brushes do I use? Do I put water on the brush or leave it dry? Do I use gel or hairspray? These are the questions I ask myself as I run a comb through my daughter’s hair this morning. We are supposed to meet Kim at church...