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I love the Olympics. I especially love the Winter Olympics. Alpine Skiing and Figure Skating are a couple favorites, and then there's...

I want to think I never got soft. Born-and-raised Minnesotans usually feel the need to be tough, at least when it comes to the weather....

Everyone has good days and bad days, and that certainly includes me as I stay home with two kids. I want to have more good than bad,...

Six months ago I wrote about the joy of babies at six months old. Six months is the beginning of more interactive behavior, but a key...

Well it's over. We moved. And it was a stressful week. If you're a reader here (by which you almost certainly know me personally) you may...

I frequently have to laugh in looking back at some of the older About Me posts. Right now I'm thinking about The Inquisitive Toddler and...

There's bound to be culture shock moving from one part of the country to another. Going from Minnesota, home of 'Minnesota Nice' and an...

I'm a day late and dollar short to this, a few actually, but I don't think that matters. Now past the 20 year anniversary, which feels...

Things got away from me for a bit there. For what it's worth I never meant to have such a long layoff (a whole month!) but we're a little...

Before becoming a parent I did some of the mental preparation that often comes with before that big life change. This is a very general...

Right now it's funny to think our toddler barely spoke at all his first year, then only very sparingly after that. He's an absolute...

Son #2 isn't quite six months old yet and he's really a ton of fun right now. A couple years ago I remember our neighbor asking when #1...

Covid has dominated our lives and conversations for the last 14 months. Most of it involved painfully slow progress on the cases then...

We were a bit surprised at #2's latest well-check. It turns out he'd fallen from 50+ percentile weight/length at three months all the way...

Covid has brought a lot of changes to our day-to-day life both at home and out in public. Much of this we've just gotten used to, like...

We have a toddler son and, to the shock of nobody, he's thoroughly obsessed with trucks. Construction equipment, emergency vehicles,...

Since my wife went back to work two weeks ago, the time has come where I'm responsible for two kids during the week. I was both dreading...

Well, time is flying by and we're nearing the end of my wife's maternity leave. For both our first and second child she took 12 weeks off...

While in some ways I'm not the most typical Minnesotan, you can definitely still see it in how I talk. The following video is a little...

Our toddler is smack dab in the middle of being two and we expect emotions to run high. Tantrums and other outbursts were already...