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My Wife Just Said… #92

Posted by on December 31st, 2012, under "MY WIFE JUST SAID..."

“You know it was a good Christmas when you discover your underwear have been on inside out all day long. Cheers.” -Avara   Stay safe tonight, everyone! Keep your underwear inside-out. – Previous “My Wife Just Said…” 

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My Kid Just Said… #14

Posted by on December 27th, 2012, under "MY KID JUST SAID..."

[Christmas morning] “Whu’s dat? A pwesent? Fo MEEE??? Whu’s in it?” [1 minute later] “I can’t open da wapping. It keeps wipping. Oh WOOK! TWAINS!!!” [.0001 seconds later] “I wead da ‘stwuctions and you buiwd it, okay, Daddy?” [100 minutes or so later] “It’s not wook wight, Daddy. Hewe ya go. You can have da [...]

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Pac-Man Christmas Wishes

Posted by on December 25th, 2012, under SNAPSHOTS

May your holidays be loaded with power pellets, bouncing fruit and joy…sticks? Nom nom nom, Charlie & Andy – Facebook Arcade Game? Imagine what a quarter-gobbling black hole Facebook would be if it were. Instructional Diagrams Learning, minus all the learning, but plus all the fun. 

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My Wife Just Said… #91

Posted by on December 24th, 2012, under "MY WIFE JUST SAID..."

“I did one of those purchases. Where it turns out it’s the wrong thing but I just can’t bring myself to tell them so I buy it anyway. So yeah. It was a Christmas album. And yeah, I’ll be returning it later.” -Elizabeth   – Previous “My Wife Just Said…” 

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Christmas Tree Decorating by Child Age

Posted by on December 12th, 2012, under INSTRUCTIONAL DIAGRAMS

Our lives go through a lot of transformations when we have kids. Body, mind and soul. And home. And car. And bank account. You either know this already, or can easily imagine. In the beginning, Baby’s First Christmas can launch holiday excitement into the psychotisphere. “Extra efforts” aren’t made, “extreme measures” are taken. New parents [...]

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15 Days of Christmas Junk! Day #2

Posted by on December 4th, 2012, under EQUIPMENT

If you have an item you think is rad, GO HERE and email us about it. Star Wars Quiet Book Well, I know what I want to get everyone for every baby shower, holiday and birthday FOREVER. This book is like a circus of rad surrounded by flocks of spectacular in skies of cool. The [...]

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Darth Vader Santa Says…

Posted by on November 30th, 2012, under SNAPSHOTS

Sometimes getting into the holiday spirit can be as tough squeezing into a pair of 10-year-old jeans. Though, by saying that, I’m not suggesting that a generous amount of Vaseline and a heavy-duty pair of pliers applied to your zipper area is going to help get you into “the most wonderful time of the year.” [...]

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Season’s Beatings

Posted by on December 26th, 2011, under NOTEBOOK

Oh, Christmas. When I hear your sleigh bells and smell your hot chocolate, my tongue takes the driver seat and my stomach goes to the proverbial back of the car. I am a slave to your whims. Unless, the guy in the back of the car isn’t wearing his seat belt. This time around our [...]

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The Calories Burned by Parenting

Posted by on November 29th, 2011, under INSTRUCTIONAL DIAGRAMS

It’s the holidays. Yay! We’ve all been double-fisting massive quantities of amazing food into our faces. Waistbands are beginning to groan in protest to the holiday splurging. Maybe some of us have nursed their guilt hangovers with super-protein-food-green-substance drinks, or spritzes of vinaigrette instead of avalanches of blue cheese dressing, it doesn’t matter. You get [...]

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Twas the Night Before Something

Posted by on September 12th, 2011, under NOTEBOOK

It’s September in Los Angeles and that means one thing: the seasons will change from Summer to, well… more Summer. This year, I’m anxious to see the customary changing of the air filters and people starting to bundle up in t-shirts instead of tank-tops. Keeping track of which month we’re in, to be fair, isn’t [...]

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