Almighty Dad | A stay at home dad blog

   Do you like Italian food?  Maggiano’s Italian Restaurant has a unique selling proposition; all their food is made from scratch.  It’s not particularly low calorie stuff, but it’s prepared fresh from quality ingredients by a real chef upon request, and that makes it a favorite of mine.  Maggiano’s is a great family friendly Italian [...]

  It’s Christmas Eve, 11:59 PM (no joke).  The kids are asleep, and I’m sitting here thinking about all the Christmas presents I’ve gotten in my life.  I ask myself, which was the best?  The answer is that, by default, the cowboy boots I got for my 5th Christmas were the best present.  It’s a [...]

  And no, I’m not talking about gift cards, sending “love”, or ordering flowers.   Given that Christmas is on Friday and that we’d need to get presents delivered by Wednesday or Thursday — one option to consider is Amazon Prime.  You get free 2nd day shipping and next day for only $3.95 on most items.  Plus, [...]

  I love Christmas.  I especially love it when we can get together with my twin brother, Keith, and his family.  His wife is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met and is such a blessing to our family!  His boys are only a little older than mine, and getting the 4 of them [...]

A guest post by Mely Wilcox     Christmas is just a couple of weeks away. The stores are all decorated, the Salvation Army bells are ringing, and we have snow on the ground. These are a few of the trappings of an American Christmas.  However, customs in Mexico are quite different. I still remember the [...]

  So, A Charlie Brown Christmas has been saved for another year.  That’s great.  However, during my investigations into yesterday’s article I found out that some jackass, or several, have decided to commercialize on the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.  I suppose it’s the American way – to suck the spontaneity and life out of everything [...]

  There are certain Christmas programming rituals that we’ve come to love in the United States.  It’s A Wonderful Life, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Holiday Inn, Frosty the Snowman, Christmas Vacation and Miracle on 34th Street are all shows that we expect to see every year.  Among the most revered of the Christmas shows is [...]

21% of US households get a real Christmas tree for the holiday.  We are going to contribute to that percentage this year like we do every year since the boys were born.  Every family needs some traditions, and one of ours is picking out and cutting down a Christmas tree.  When my wife and I [...]

We’ve always had real Christmas trees in our family.  I’m a traditional sort of person, and I prefer to have the sense that Christmas is more than plastic and commercialism.  I know deep down it really is mostly plastic and fake – the trees too.  But, having a real tree helps me see the season as [...]

  I went to my son’s gymnastics class yesterday at our local community center (the North Boulder Rec Center).  I was met by a big white-board at the entrance that had listed healthy eating tips for Thanksgiving.  I read it and decided it was so hilarious that I had to write it down and report [...]

Two weeks ago I read about spatchcocking turkeys in Martha Stewart Living Magazine.  It seemed like such a good idea that I wrote all about it and decided that spatchcocking was my new way of preparing a turkey.  To be completely sure though that I was giving good advice, I decided to try it.  Lo [...]