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Snow day! While I still have to work, here's what we managed to build this morning with this year's first big snow. Snowman contest anyone? Epic  sn ögubbe     Our toddler LOVED it. This is the first winter he can really romp around. It was a battle to get our sport-themed sn ögubbe's torso up. We had to use a table top as a ramp...

This idea came the other day as my wife and I were having a late-night bowl of cereal... Why not start a cereal company that covers its boxes with interesting ads? It'd undoubtedly give advertisers plenty of looks on super market shelves and on kitchen tables. With the advertising revenue, it could drastically beat the price of competitors. And, it could go a step further... Why not put a pack of ads/coupons inside the box itself? Advertisers send stuff like that in the mail all the time, and I imagine cereal-box delivery would give their fliers a longer lifespan before hitting the trash can. Who knows? Maybe the cost of the cereal could be so subsidized that you could sell it for a dollar or less? Or, even give it away for free? Sounds like a cool way to help the poor to me. I also thought about the potential of working advertisements into other food packaging, but other items seemed less promising. Who's going to give their pasta bag a good look before tearing it ...

Or any other social medium... Sometimes I love the social media game. Sometimes I hate it. I've figured out the difference is mostly up to me. Here's my attempt to break down what I've learned from my own trial and error. Rule #1 Remember it isn't about you. It's about them. All other rules revolve around this concept. Rule #2 It isn't about HAVING friends. It's about BEING a friend. Rule #3 It isn't about being LIKED. It's about SUPPORTING others. Rule #4 It isn't about being noticed. It's about listening, watching, and understanding. Rule #5 Okay, it's actually a little about you. Friendship means both sharing and receiving. People want to know what you really think about and what your life is really like. However, it's lame to pay attention to how much your posts appear to be noticed or unnoticed. If used properly, social media can be rewarding and fun. If not, they become little more than a mirror, a catalyst f...

Outfits don't make people look good, it's the other way around. Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Feel free to share this with the beautiful people in your life! Click  HERE  to watch the cute slideshow . Kid wielding shovel, covered in dirt, looking cute.

       1)        If you stay focused on your goal, nothing hurts – he eyes a toy under the table, bangs his head on everything to get there, but arrives without complaint.        2)        Love knows no boundaries – he will hug a real dog, a toy dog, and even a picture of a dog. 3)        Love yourself – when he looks in the mirror, he never complains, only smiles. When he sees a picture of himself, he always looks good. 4)        When life gets hard, take a nap and everything will be better. 5)        Everything  can be a toy. You can make a game out of anything. 6)        Milk does a body good – he’s huge. 7)        Failure is no reason to fear – he falls down the stairs and within a minute or two is crawling back up wit...

Here's an ingenious idea I saw the other day. The card ornaments are gifts to Jesus from kids. A picture of the nativity is on one side. The other side is decorated to look like a present. Every time a child does a good deed for someone, he/she gets to hang another gift on the tree. This is a good way to teach kids that Christmas is about giving and serving God. When they help others, they help God. "[W]hen ye are in the b service of your c fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."  - Mosiah 2:17, The Book of Mormon  The ornaments were made out of pass along cards from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but any picture of Jesus could work.

1.        Transition contact lenses. And the transition part only covers the pupil, so you don’t look freakish. I hate squinting, but I don’t care much for sunglasses. I would pay big money for a pair of transition contacts! If they already exist, they seriously need to become more widely available. Imagine these guys, carbonated. 2.        Carbonated gummy bears. Carbonated ice cream. I know at least the latter already exists. I’ve tried it. It was ridiculously good. But that was in a lab a few years ago... Why hasn’t that deliciousness hit supermarket shelves yet? 3.        A stoplight remote. For the times when you don’t exist as far as traffic sensors are concerned. 4.        An everything-reader. Books on tape are the bomb. But not every book is on tape. I am looking for something I can plop in front of any text and it will read it for me. A...