Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Perfect Father's Day Gift


Tastes Of ChicagoI was watching Unwrapped, and I saw the perfect Father's Day gift.  The Tastes of Chicago Ultimate Taste kit gives you a good variety of foods from Chicago.





They will pack this up and ship it across the country packed with dry ice.


Now this is a great way to get some Chicago food when you are out of the area.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

San Francisco Bay Family Activities


I always try to keep my eye out for activities that we can take the kids to on the weekend.  Sometime I forget the activities that I have seen, and end up doing a search while the kids are running around.


So I decided to add the activities to a calendar, to make it easy for me to remember.  I will add ativitites when I see them.

If anyone else is interested, I have shared the calendar.



Parent speak dictionary


This is a great post that translates many parenting phrases.


(The comments have some pretty funny ones too.)


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Thursday, May 24, 2007

WD-40 to the rescue


Our son decided to draw on his window in the back of the van with a crayon.  I tried various cleaning supplies to get the crayon off.  None of them worked.  Later on, I was trying to fix some of the squeaky doors around the house, and then I noticed that the WD-40 can states the WD-40 can be used to clean off crayon.


The WD-40 easily to rid of the crayon, but it left a cloudy residue.  With a little Windex, the window came clean.


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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Bedroom Railroad


Here are some pictures of an installation of a model railroad in a child's bedroom.  I would love to do something like this.  I The kids would have so much fun watching an controlling the trains.


What I would want to do is have three connected track loops.  One in each of the bedrooms, and one in the connecting hallway.  I would install a switch in each bedroom which would cause the switch to change so the train would never be switched to that bedroom's loop.


[via Strollerderby]


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Friday, May 18, 2007

5 Second Rule


This article in the New York Times talks about some research into the "5 second rule".  I guess the results show that bacteria gets transferred, even with only a 5 second exposure.


When I was a kid, there wasn't a 5 second rule.  It was either the 30 second rule or "God made dirt, dirt don't hurt".  Maybe if they said a chant like that, the results would have been different.


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Monday, May 14, 2007

New Addition


Friday night at 8:40, our baby girl was born.  She is a healthy, beautiful little girl.  Mom and baby are doing fine.