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FFYF: Day Off Edition

Welcome to Fun For Your Friday Saturday, Internets! We’re a day late but well rested here at Earnest Parenting. After several consecutive looooong days of going to the fair, we took yesterday off. And by “off” I mean the boys cleaned their rooms, fed...

Raising an Alpha Male Has its Challenges

When TechnoBoy and The Mercenary were little we refused to tell them who was older. This wasn’t intended as any kind of sociological experiment; we were just trying to keep the playing field balanced. TechnoBoy, who was born first by 5 minutes, was smaller...

FFYF: Clean Chicken Edition

Good Friday, Internets! You’ll be pleased as punch to know that we washed 8 chickens in 45 minutes without injury last evening. Granted, I don’t think we got them as clean as a die-hard poultry showman would, but they’re clean enough. We’re...

A Little Hard Work Never Hurt Anyone

A theme I keep coming back to in this blog is the disconnect between my work ethic and the boys’. I am a workaholic. Plain and simple, I’d rather be pursuing a task than sitting still. The older I get, the more I want to be completing things. Don’t...

Dreamfield Pasta Review

Remember the pasta test we did a few weeks ago? It was fun! As a result of that post, I was contacted by Meredith of McDowell & Piasecki, asking if we’d like to try out a brand I’d not heard of before: DreamFields Pasta. It turns out that Dreamfields...