Occasionally, I run into helpful tips for bloggers and like to pass them along. This one is about having your blog name in your email account.
If you have your own domain for your blog and don’t have Blogger or Wordpress or Movable Type hosting your blog (for example, www.joeshmoe.blogspot.com), then you can get an email […]

We were a bit apprehensive about Christmas this year. For the past two years, L.A. Toddler would get easily overwhelmed by it all. She would open a few presents and then disappear into her shell and refuse to see what else family and Santa Claus had brought her.

But not this year. We followed all our […]

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season.

Merry Christmas from L.A. Family!

We’re a week away from Christmas and I need to start my shopping. Normally, I’d wait until the weekend, but… I just can’t take those chances anymore. Not with two kids in the house. Things are too unpredictable to wait until the last minute.
Why not shop earlier? Ha! Fat chance. Those people who can start […]

L.A. Toddler is adapting well to her new sister! Well, I think… Um, she hasn’t killed her anyway. Yet. But I think that might only be because we’re actually in the room with her all the time.She’s always excited to see her new baby sister. She comes running into the house, when she gets home […]

Okay, I just realized that they sent me two of Norelco Nose & Ear Hair Trimmers. So, I’ve got an extra one to give away. I figured I’d hold my first ever contest on my blog!
If you’d like me to send one to you, for four easy payments of $0.00, you’ve got play along!
“Here’s How […]

I hate to shave.
I hate it, hate it, hate it. It hurts me. And I’m jealous of the guys who can use those electric shavers. It would be so cool to whip one out and clean up my face every day. But I’ve got thick facial hair and it ends up feeling like four thousand […]

Today is my birthday. And I’m old now. I’m not in that 20-29 or 30 - 39 age category anymore. I’ve leaped quietly into the 40 - 49 grouping. That is a fucking tough pill to swallow. But I’ll handle it with the dignity and decorum of a man of my advanced age — […]

When you have a child, it seems like everything is a new and exciting milestone: her first night at home, her first bath, her first Hollywood party…
When the second one comes along, it feels like it’s just been-there-done-that. At first. But then you start to do all the little things that you completely forgot about […]