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Last Minute Christmas Gift: Puppet Theater

**UPDATE: The puppet theaters are no longer available. Thanks! Shameless commercial plug here: If you’re needing a last minute Christmas gift I may have a solution for you. I am on the board of an addiction recovery ministry and one of the things we did for a...

How I Got the Captain to Keep His Sheets

My weekly post is up at ForeverParenting.  🙂  One of the difficulties Captain Earthquake had with sleeping was losing his covers in the night.  When I showed up, there would be a twisted mess all shoved along the foot of the bed.  It took a lot of hard thinking and...

Law of Attraction

Words are powerful tools. As a parent, I need to keep that thought at the forefront of my mind. We don’t realize sometimes how much weight our children assign to the words that come out of our mouths. Just a little bit of disapproval can really impact a little...

Wherein I Admit A Little Secret

Joe at Fathered Five tagged me for a meme about my book-reading habits. I’ve been avoiding putting the truth down in writing here at the blog, but it has to come out sometime. I haven’t read a book in at least a year. There. I said it. Okay well, I wrote...

Balancing Act

I’ve thought quite a bit about balance, and it’s a concept I try to apply to my life whenever I can. In fact, one of my personal jokes is “most things in moderation”. ‘Cause after all, if ALL things were in moderation then I’d be...