I never check the news when I am travelling. My normal routine is disrupted, I am busy doing exciting things, and so I often will come home to find out that there has been some sort of major event, natural disaster, celebrity death, or presidential election while I was away for the week and I […]
Category Archives: Legos
The Big Make-a-Wish Reveal!
It’s official. We have a Wish Kid in the family! This is the first time I’ve posted here about it, because I didn’t want to jump the gun, but now it’s really real! Back in the fall, the hellish, hellish fall, we were recommended to the Make-a-Wish foundation by our pediatrician. This was very nice, […]
Twelve Adventures: #3 – Boston!
Yes, we had to take a trip to Boston Children’s Hospital as a part of our continuing family epilepsy adventure, but there was no chance that we were going to take such a trip without injecting a whole lot of fun into it. Life is full of many kinds of adventures, and it’s important to […]
The 2015 Christmas Eve Scavenger Hunt (CESH), and What Came After
Every year, my wife’s family spends Christmas Eve together, eating cookies, drinking tea and hot chocolate, opening gifts, singing carols, and running around the downtown area publicly humiliating themselves. So basically just your normal holiday traditions. We rotate the responsibilities of designing and constructing the epic photo/video scavenger hunt each year, and this time it […]
Lego Dimensions vs. Disney Infinity
Lego Dimensions. Disney Infinity 3.0. Since neither of these games are out yet and I have not played either of them, this seems like a good time for me to talk about them, don’t you think? Because I have a problem. I don’t know which one to get!!! Let’s look at this objectively. I have […]
50 Things Only 10-sies Kids Can Understand
Signs that you were raised in the greatest generation, with a childhood from 2010-2019! Suck it, children of the 20’s! 1) That Sofia the First had the best theme song of all time (sorry, Doc McStuffins)! 2) Frozen is the greatest movie in the history of cinema. 3) Marvel only came out with two or three movies a […]
Climate Marching in the Wrong Direction (A New York City Family Adventure – Part 3)
We had seen a lot on our family trip to New York. The Statue of Liberty, The 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Central Park, Macy’s, The Empire State Building, Times Square, Broadway, and more tourist shops than you could shake an overpriced stick made in China at. Yes, we had done quite a bit in two […]
The Disappointment of Meeting Expectations
“Meets Expectations.” Is there anything more frustratingly disappointing than that? I mean, at least if something fails to meet the expectations you can feel good about feeling bad, right? But if something does exactly what it is supposed to do, why does that feel like such a let down? Have we been conditioned to want […]
The Roads and Rails Museum of Frederick, MD
My ten-year-old self has just found his new favorite place. It was completely by accident of course; we went there with the intention of making my three-year-old son very happy. Bleric Ack had been hunting up fun things for us to do while we were staying with him over Thanksgiving, and this was the top […]