Stories for Dads and Moms who Need a Laugh

Recovering from surgery isn't the ideal way to get a little rest and relaxation, but I'll take a little downtime any way I can get it. The History of my Legs Last Summer, I was visiting my family when my sister said something about my legs. Veins were bulging out. My parents and my wife noticed what she was talking about, and I suddenly regretted wearing shorts that day. "How long has it been like that," people started to ask me. "I don't know," I said. "A couple of years, maybe." "It doesn't hurt?" "No," I said. "It doesn't bother me at all." The truth is I never even noticed it until people brought it up to me that day. I consider myself to be a relatively healthy person. When I was a teenager, I would ride my bike for miles and miles. I had worked manual labor jobs. In high school and college, I was on my feet working. In my twenties and thirties, I've been hauling heavy loads or standing working ret

Getting ready to perform. When writing for newspapers, the biggest fringe benefit of the job was getting into the games for free. I love sports. I wasn't very good at playing them, but I enjoyed playing them, nonetheless. Watching the games and getting paid to watch them was a lot of fun for me. Watching Sports with and without my Kids I coached my own children for a few glorious years. Teaching them something I loved allowed me to do something with them, and I love doing thing with them. Reading, watching something on the television, anything. A few years ago, my youngest children decided that sports wasn't for them. I was a little upset that The Oppressed and The Boy didn't share my love for playing or watching sports, but these things happen. It was fun for me to watch them run up and down the field and get exercise while they worked on their motor skills and coordination. I also enjoyed watching how they communicated with their teammates on the field and the sidelines.

I am a stay-at-home-dad, which means I am responsible for serving and cooking meals, and shopping for the ingredients needed to make said meals. Over the years, I have made a habit of looking for the best deals. It comes from being broke in my twenties, like a lot of people have gone through and are going through now. Shopping at Market Basket Saves Money "The Basket" One shopping godsend I discovered years ago is Market Basket . If you're not from New England, you may remember this grocery store chain from the 2016 documentary  that told of the internal fighting at the top of the corporate chain and the employees' reaction to the in-fighting. More recently, the store was in the news when one customer allegedly threw a watermelon at another. 🍉 Sensational stories aside, people like me go to Market Basket because it's cheap. I have four children, a dog, and a cat to feed, so it's important to stretch that grocery dollar. There are some people who don't go