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Disclosure: We received a travel stipend in exchange for attending in the farm tour. Our family was invited to spend the day at Spirit Farms in Sheridan, IL. And that is exactly what we did last week. We got to take a tour of the farm and hear all about how the business is run. […]

This post does not contain any Doctor Who spoilers. Please read with confidence.  I’ve recently become a fan of the BBC’s Doctor Who. Thanks to my wife encouraging me to watch it with her. We’ve worked our way through 7 of the relaunched seasons and have just started on the classic Doctor Who. The 8th […]

If you are looking for the perfect toy for a preschooler who loves to get dirty and loves dinosaurs, you’ve landed in the right place. The Dino Construction Company™ (an Educational Insights product line) has partnered with me to giveaway one of their toys! They sent me a Wrecker the T-Rex Skid Loader and my […]

Just as we started our journey down the highway to a family movie night at the grandparents yesterday we heard a loud bang, the car shook a little and our tire pressure light flashed on. My wife's first words were "What was that? What did you hit?" I knew it was not good.

I’ve been a fan of Robin Williams since I was little. Movies like Hook, Aladdin and Jumanji are part of my childhood that I will never forget. They helped form the sense of humor I have today. Fast forward a few years to movies like World’s Greatest Dad, The Final Cut, RV, Insomnia and many […]

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post, in conjunction with ecoATM. I received compensation for the creation and sharing of this post. Like most Americans I love my gadgets. And like many I simply collect old phones. They end up in a drawer or a box and I don’t think about them again until I move […]

“You hit like a girl!” he shouted. I was six and had just been insulted by Jake. He was a fellow student and resident cool guy in 1st grade. I wanted to be just like him. He was good at sports (gym class dodgeball), he liked rock music (his dad’s 60s records) and and the girls […]

Let me introduce you to Oren Miller. This married 41 year old father of two has changed the way dad blogging happens at the keyboard and away from it. Oren founded the Facebook Dad Bloggers group a few years ago. It was key in creating a community of dad bloggers that had never existed previously. […]

Husbands get a bad wrap. We are a large and diverse group made up of a wide range of completely capable and thoughtful fellows. While the bad rap is sometimes deserved, the husband bashing gets old. There are many who “get it” and are often overlooked. To help illustrate this point, here are 25 Husbands Who […]

I’ve only just gotten into drinking beer in the last year or two. One big reason is that the only beers I had only had crap beers until recently. My first beer was a can of Coors, purchased by a friend. It was 2008 and I’d never had a beer before. It was not a […]