The Adventures of a Stay-at-Home Dad of 5
I'm all about great steak. Steak has been one of my top 3 favorite foods since I can remember. Lasagna came and went, pizza holds a spot frequently and hamburgers will often find themselves on my top 3 foods list. But steak. Steak has never left my top 3. There is just something about a…
On day one of our recent family road trip we stopped for dinner in Georgia at a pizza buffet. While in the bathroom bending over to help our daughter, my wife's iPhone 5 slipped out of her shirt pocket and landed face down on the tile. She knew before she even turned it over, it…
My wife decided she no longer liked our hallway coat closet and I needed to turn it into a mud room. It was looking pretty ugly, I'll give her that, but we were storing a lot of stuff in there. I wasn't ready to give up all that storage space for some shoe cubbies, a…
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say everyone loves saving money. I don't know anyone who enjoys deliberately throwing money away. Unfortunately that's exactly what we do with our homes if we are not being energy efficient. We are wasting 100s and sometimes 1000s of dollars a year. Some of that…
A while back I showed you how to build a small tiered vegetable & herb garden. Our garden has had plenty of time to grow and develop and I decided I would bring you an update. I have learned a few things from my first venture into urban farming. The first thing I learned is…
For Mother's Day my wife gave me a short list of things she would like. One of those things was a raised vegetable and herb garden. She even let me see four thousand examples on Pinterest. Thanks for that Pinterest. Using some of the ideas I saw on Pinterest and what I knew of our…
Every year for Mother's Day I stress out about what to get my wife. I prefer to give sentimental gifts that can have value beyond Mother's Day. So things like jewelry or framed photos instead of flowers or a spa day. I understand women love flowers and spa days and those things might be part…
Last year I had disassembled so many pallets and had so many lose boards laying around I began to rack my brain as to what I could do with these boards. One afternoon I thought up this art project idea to get the kids involved with. I apologize that these pictures are not the highest…
A while back my wife told me she had an idea for a pallet project. She said she was going to run to Walmart and would be back soon. She returned with the following items: A 1 gallon decorative ball mason jar, a candle, some wire and a curtain rod holder. She explained to me…
Two Thanksgivings ago we were all set to host some friends and family for a Thanksgiving dinner. We were about an hour away from the guests arrival when my wife turned to me and said "Could you please build me a centerpiece?" All I could think about was the guests would be arriving soon and…
We are a family of six. Problem is we had a kitchen table for 4. So we took to the internet to find a table that would fit our family and our kitchen. The style we decided on were running anywhere from $400-$800. In the scheme of life that wouldn't break the bank but I…