A Dad First

The Absolute Best Birth Story Ever…

I’ve told the story dozens of times, and I’ll never get tired of it. Here I was, about to be a first-time dad (so, you know…a while ago), nervous and excited…and our time was, well…delayed by a very long and delayed labor, a pizza delivery, and a transfer from home to the hospital. So kind […]

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Review: AcTek Sundock Wireless Bluetooth Speaker

Disclaimer: I received this product for review. However, as always, this did not, and does not, affect my review. It’s not often I’m surprised by a product. But the AcTek Sundock Wireless Bluetooth Speaker did so on a couple of levels. I’d seen similar speakers show up in my Amazon feed before, but sort of […]

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You’re Offended? Good.

This video is just too good–and accurate–to not share. Take a look and listen.

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Spring is in the Air…with LTD Commodities!

LTD Commodities has quite a spring and garden collection that you should know about…see it here. They are also sponsoring a giveaway below. The winner gets a $25 LTDCommodities.com gift voucher (with free shipping). Giveaway begins 4/22, and runs through 4/29. ALSO…they are having a Garden Gnome photo contest going on RIGHT NOW, where you […]

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HUGE K’nex Giveaway!

3 K’nex 705-piece Toy Chests as featured at https://americancertified.com/product/D15L0OKS459 Enter now! a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Thanksgiving is Around the Corner!

LTD Commodities has some great ideas for you: Thanksgiving Decorating Made Easy Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes: Remixing Your Holiday Dinner Menu But we’re one-upping ourselves this time around: they’ve come up with a festive table-themed package of items for Thanksgiving FOR YOU…well, one of you, that is. Enter the giveaway at the bottom of the post. […]

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Blog Influencer of the Year?!

Kid, you’re not the only one who’s confused. 😉 But Voiceboks believes I have some sort of influence in the blogosphere. Part of me thinks it may be run by ex-hippies and this is a residual issue, if you know what I mean…but regardless of the presence or not of any chemical substances, this blog […]

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Imagine if Facebook did this…

  Think about Facebook for a minute…in Q4 of 2013, Facebook ad revenue totaled over $2.3 billion. The company made a LOT of money.  [http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-q4-2013-earnings-2014-1] They made that money off of you, and off your content. Imagine, especially, if you posted something that went viral…then they made a ton of money off you, and you […]

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Camping Adventure and Two Hacks…

This past weekend I loaded up the car with camping gear and the two littles, and we set off on an adventure. I didn’t tell them where we were going, aside from saying we were camping. And yes, camping with a 5 year old girl and 7 year old boy, alone, presents some challenges, especially […]

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Secondhand Lions…

I hadn’t seen Secondhand Lions before last night (nor heard of it, I don’t think)… But we watches last night. LOVED it. They seriously could have shot two hours of Robert Duvall’s and Michael Caine’s characters warding off salesmen with their shotguns from their front porch and it STILL would have been great. Really. Actually, […]

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