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Entries for June, 2007

Easy Bake Oven Retrofit Kit - Conclusion

The Easy Bake Oven retrofit kit arrived in the mail today via FedEx. The letter that came with it made it sound like it took so long because they actually had to make the piece, perhaps.
Anyway, the piece is just a little plastic grate that you put over the entry where the cakes, etc. […]

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5 Things You Could Do Instead Of Blowing Up Stuff In Your Driveway

The neighbors are starting to blow stuff up in their driveways. The 4th of July must be right around the corner. I really hate people blowing stuff up in their driveways. A couple years back, one of the dads in the neighborhood nearly beat up another dad in the neighborhood when that […]

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Guest Post - 10 tips for keeping the home fires alight if you are working away

How can you develop a relationship with your children if you do the weekly commute? Monday to Friday is a long time if you are very small, and it can seem even longer if you are the home-alone parent …
Here are a few of the things we’ve found to help over the last 10 years:
1. […]

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Numbers Say The Boys Are Not Doing So Well

Go read these stats. Trust me, they are worth it. It shows for every 100 girls how many boys do the same thing.
Things like enroll in preschool through getting graduate degrees.
Things like going through various stages of special education.
Things like going to jail.
Very shocking to see the numbers even if we are aware […]

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Formal Protests

Pookie has been very good around the house with making sure he goes to the bathroom to go pee or poop.
There are a few noticeable exceptions.

When he is watching too good of a cartoon
When he is reading too good of a book
When he is listening to too good of music

He fairly frequently has refused to […]

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