Aiden had such a good time at C2E2 in April that I had planned to take him to Wizard World Chicago later. Wizard is a declining force in the comics industry (they were huge back in the 90′s), so they changed the name of the event back to “Chicago Comic Con” this year. This con was arguably bigger than C2E2, but...
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Aiden used to love “Thomas The Tank Engine”. We watched the show all the time and had tons of the plastic tracks to build railroads with. However, Gavin soon became mobile and started trashing the sets. So the tracks went into storage until Gavin was old enough to play with them too. Now is the time to get Gavin...
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I have a splinter in my finger, and it controls me. Not in the sense that it says, “You will do what I say,” but I won’t use my hand without first consulting it. It’s just a little black speck, stuck just beneath the skin on my pointer finger. It only hurts sometimes, but it’s a sharp pain, only...
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I’m not proud of it, but I often hide from my kids while eating snacks so that I don’t have to share with them. Hence the term “clandesnacking”, an amalgamation of “clandestine” and “snacking”. Yes, I made that up. Why would I go through all the trouble of avoiding the boys...
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