SuburbanDaddy

I was given an early release of Scooby-Doo and The Goblin King, so I could let the influential movie connoisseur in my house review the movie.  Normally, SuburbanMommy would be the expert in that area, but in this genre, Thing 2 is the opinion that matters. 

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To paraphrase Dickens, our recent trip to the beach was both the best of times and the worst of times.  At times we were relaxing, having a great time, watching the kids enjoy the sand and surf.  But that was just a teeny, tiny portion of how we spent our days.
The rest of the time [...]

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My kids don’t watch what I’d consider a lot of television.  In fact, many times, I wish they would spend more time watching TV.
But this weekend, Thing 2 really wanted to watch movies.  Finally, SuburbanMommy gave him the old parenting line: If you watch too much TV, your brain will turn to mush.
He didn’t seem [...]

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That’s it.  It’s official.  I am old.
How did I come to this realization?  It wasn’t because I regularly fall asleep by 10pm.  Or because, as Thing 1 puts it, “Daddy forgets everything”.  And it wasn’t when I noticed that I’m almost twice the age of many of my kids’ preschool teachers, and they call me [...]

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Another summer ends with a beach trip for Suburban Family.  It wasn’t much different than last year’s adventure.  We were happy we went, and happy when it was over.  It was one of those trips.
The kids had a great time, which is the whole point, right?  For Thing 3, it was his first time to [...]

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