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Raising Men

Sunday, sitting in church, Paige and I were in the middle, with our sons on either side. Joe, our older boy, leaned over Paige and asked me to pass a note to his little brother, Sam. Sam giggled like a maniac, and in a stage whisper heard three pews away, asked me what it said. [...]
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It’s for the Children

Before we had kids, we used to watch parents who homeschooled, and think “I could never do that.” Their children were generally well-behaved, if not perfect, and they were usually a lot more on top of things, academically, than 
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PixoPoint

Whatever you do, do not EVER get a suckerfish menu from pixopoint. I downloaded and installed one of their plugins and it screwed my theme up so bad I had to go in and rip out my child theme just to  
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The Victory Lap Incident

Had a fight with the wife this weekend. Well, more like a spat. You say fight and someone starts envisioning black eyes and broken teeth. It was more like a "I said, she said, I got mad and didn't tell her why" kind of thing, so I was pretty much to blame. So why aren't [...]
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Weekend Update, Family Edition

The wife was reading something to the kids Friday night and she came upon something about a water buffalo. So she explained that it was like a cow and my youngest asked, "You means they squeeze those things and water comes out?" Tonight we went to Dairy Queen. My oldest 
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Wordpress Themes the Easy Way

This is so easy! I came upon a wordpress theme called Thematic and some posts on how to create wordpress child themes. I spent a lot of time and effort last year trying to find out how to develop my own wordpress themes, ended up modifying the Constructor theme, and then lost the modifications when 
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A Record Month!

Well, it's official: July is a record month for The A.M. I want to thank all of you for coming here and I look forward to serving you in the future. Of course, we aren't  
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The Cleaners Always Rings Twice

 I have no idea what the original story was about… Well, now I do, 
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The Power of the Dark Side…

My kids are really enjoying the Wii Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga game. Okay, not a challenge for you older kids, but my oldest is seven so he's in the game's target demographic. He's beaten all of the levels and now can engage in 'free play' where he can change his character to any [...]
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How Many Bloggers Does It Take…

I’m having writer’s block. It’s bad. Day two with no header art. What did I do yesterday? The same thing I do every day, Pinky: Get up, go to work, come home, play with the kids, spend some time with the wife, go to bed. I did manage to extract a broken screw. How, you [...]
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