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Epic Mushroom Bacon & Egg Burger for #ShroomTember

It’s Game TIME, and we’ve been mixing it up with all our favorite ingredients–combined into a hand-held (albeit messy), mushroom-infused burger! Bacon + eggs + mushrooms + ground beef… It’s like combining all of our favorite meals into one epic burger. When you throw this burger on the grill, and then stack all the other ingredients on-top, this will be …

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First Day of School Blues

Well here it is again: the first days of school. It’s the yearly ritual all parents must face at the end of every summer. For me, it is yet another reminder of how quickly time with our children pass, and how fleeting time is. I know… this is how life progresses, how it is ” supposed to be”; yet I …

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Hunting Live Dinos

Into every parent’s life, some dino hunting is inevitable, particularly if you have a child who is so-desperately in love with dinosaurs (and everything that they represent). So, last weekend, we took our hunt for dinos to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (we call it the Dino Museum). It’s always a favorite activity for us, and …

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Time

Time. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin Those 4 letters are so simple yet so complicated, depending on the way you use the word. It can make a mountain into dust. It can be a witness to life and for death. It is an unstoppable force… always moving forward. For a parent, time is our greatest …

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Waiting on Pizza – #Dad #Adventure

Who doesn’t love making (and eating) pizza? On Friday, my son and I joined a group of other kids (and parents)–for a “Make-a-Pizza” meetup at Village Pizza, in Corrales, New Mexico. Of course, we have made pizzas at home, and the boys enjoyed it. But, there was something so much more spectacular about making pizzas in a “real” pizza parlor–with …

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Broken Bones & Gray Hairs

Last weekend, I participated in the MS Muckfest–it’s an annual event I started participating in 5 years ago because one of my brothers is affected by MS. All the hot-muck-goopy-filth felt like an all-too-appropriate metaphor for life this year, but it also made me realize a few other things. I know, I know… I’m not as young as I once …

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