Daring Young Mom

Careful driving and pagan holidays – brought to you by children with no parents.

Laylee: Why are you driving so slow?
Me: I’m being careful because there are so many kids out on the streets.
Laylee: You have to drive really slow because some kids have no moms and no dads. Halloween is good for kids with no [...]

Honestly, I am more than willing to go buy a few Snickers bars for the neighborhood kids to avoid finding a flaming bag of poo on my front porch. It’s just common sense and although the bag contents are the same color as chocolate, I prefer giving treats to getting tricks.

I saw an IMAX movie about Egypt on a date with Dan this weekend. I really think that if given the budget and footage they had, I could have made a much better film. I mean, look what I did with Allysha’s husband, $20, 4 pirate radio DJs, a couple of Mexican wrestling [...]

“Fostering Apathy and Cynicism in a Generation that Needs More Hope”
I can’t imagine why that title wouldn’t appeal to a broad audience of casual weekend readers, but that’s just me.
(UPDATE: The subtitle is now restored and truthfully it looks a tad “big” over there.) 
If that title doesn’t appeal to you, then just go play in [...]

(This happened a month ago. I am just now calm enough to blog the carnage.)
So I was sitting in a soggy tent in my back yard for three hours with 2 children under 4, no socks and a mother lode of nut-based products during the worst rainstorm of the year. So what? [...]

[Daring Young Dad here. I'm a Guest Blogger Schmoop today. Hi! *waves wildly*]
Once upon a time, I did not know how to make chocolate-chip cookies. Shocking, I know. This is the story of how I learned.
My mom is a good cook. At least she has been for as long as I’ve known her. When I [...]

How many hard plastic balls are in my house?  Magoo, who is obviously practicing to be a professional pitcher someday, spends much of his time screeching like a nazgul and laying waste to the princesses in his path. 
Hopefully Laylee can find a job as the town crier, weeping and hiding from an infant. She is [...]

This weekend I went to a one day LDS women’s conference in Tacoma.  Speakers and musicians came together to uplift, enlighten, entice us to buy their merchandise and charge $16 for a sandwich.  I told Laylee I was going to a class to learn how to be a better mommy.  The info was certainly presented.  [...]

So, I’ve moved to Fridays at Parenting.com and I miss you over there.  Please join me today as I share the ways Laylee and I have been enlightened by our viewing of Disney’s nautical adventure. 
Financial advice?  Keys to a happy marriage?  Learning to love schoolyard bullies.  It’s all there.  Have a read and share what [...]

I don’t care what they call it.  I’m pretty sure there’s no honey in this bucket.