With two young boys, we strive to maintain a certain sense of decorum around the Smith house.  It is usually somewhere between mayhem and good old-fashioned nuttiness.  This morning was no exception.
I was fully engaged in loafing on this President’s day off from work, when I heard Jan’s “fairly annoyed” tone of voice coming from [...]

So what do you do when you want to extol the virtues of honesty, but also want to let your kids enjoy their childhood?  When Ryan lost his first tooth, we went back and forth and decided to give a spare key to the Tooth Fairy – as long as nothing went missing from the [...]