When you make plans in life, life has a way of changing, altering or downright blowing up your best-laid-out plans. You don't get many days like I had yesterday with the kids.
As a parent I'm constantly sending my two boys back to the bedroom to try again on their daily fashion choices. It's a constant struggle that forces me to say, "Do as I say, not as I do", every time I leave the house looking like I dressed in the dark.
We all feel it inside. Some of us even blurt it out when the kids aren't around. Kids can suck. We love them more than anything else in the world, but they're destructive, dirty and (until they learn better) rude.
Maybe this is why you can't have your cake and eat it, too. In this edition of Trial & Error a man in Cowlitz County, Washington entered the courthouse and promptly stole a few bites of a little girl's birthday cake sitting on a table.
There's nothing like walking into a house on a hot day only to find out it's hotter inside than outside. That's what I was faced with Tuesday afternoon as I got home. The A/C was set to 78, but it was 87 in the house. This edition of Trial & Error looks at making lemonade when life hands you rotten lemons.
It's sad that I have so much in common, medically speaking, with my younger son, Logan. In this edition of Trial & Error I examine an unfortunate case of, "Like father, like son".
In this edition of Trial & Error, a chance encounter uncovers a book with the hand-written words of this dad that leave me in the awkward situation of not being able to deny and lie my way out of a child's questions.
On a night set against the backdrop of glitz and glam at the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards, it was a shorts & sandals-clad Will Ferrell that left the most memorable mark on the evening.
Life as a father requires MacGyver-like abilities in many areas. In this edition of "Trial and Error" you'll see what happens when grocery bags are nowhere to be found and a lunch needs to be packed.
We've all heard the phrase, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time". It's pretty straight forward, unless of course, we're dealing with Florida. When Floridiots are involved, all bets are out the window... and it gives us a chance for a Stupid News Network Update.