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Month: June 2015

Father’s Day 2015

Father’s Day 2015

Father’s Day, 2015. I expect gifts. I expect a homemade card with a crudely drawn heart on it, a tall figure drawn in crayon holding the hand of a significantly shorter figure, the taller figure will likely be holding a tiny figure, all of them decorated with huge garish smiles. I will love these gifts, I’ll treasure them. I quietly and proudly celebrate the fact that my daughter draws pictures of her family with smiles. Maybe I’m not completely screwing…

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Getting Girls Ready For School

Getting Girls Ready For School

Getting girls ready for school. So, we are not fuddy-duddies, that being said, we try to put our girls in decent clothing when we’re out, you know, something that says, “our house is actually civilized. And no, she did not poop on the bathroom floor forty-five minutes ago. Why do you ask?” I apparently do not do so well with color matching. This is why I keep my own wardrobe pretty low key. I know the basics, things look good…

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Choosing a Diaper Pail

Choosing a Diaper Pail

You can very easily go with the cheaper alternatives for most baby-related items. In fact you probably should, for the most part, I’d say the baby industry is a racket! Anyway, there are a few things that you really should not go cheap on, and today I’d like to talk about one of those items, it is the venerable Diaper Genie. It’s not a cute item, it’s not a “showcase item” in the baby room. It’s pretty much all function,…

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