The Lego Solution

  Managing multiples throughout the day is a true juggling act. Often the balls come crashing down and the circus tent with it. Working harder is a given, working smarter is a must.
  As the twins have graduated to smaller legos, and the collection builds to insane proportions, I've found myself getting swallowed up in hours worth of building, teaching how to follow the instructions, and eventually just telling them to look at the pictures. This is the age of questions for my twins, and I mean a lot of questions. Kids, just like adults are visual learners. Out of one of my 'question induced headaches', I finally started working smarter toward a solution that will allow dad to get a break from the lego tractor beam(cuz I do love me some legos). Hopefully this can help any of you in a similar lego boat. It took all of ten minutes to make, hopefully you haven't thrown out those boxes with the cool pictures! So far it's worked, maybe one day we'll graduate to the hardcover edition!

The Daily Californian

  So April is over and you can all go back to eating red meat! Thanks for your support, I bet we shut down an In and Out for, well...okay even I cheated. I was in Minnesota, and I always eat a big greasy breakfast with corned beef hash when I go home,so that doesn't count, but I also ate some braised tri-tip I made for Tj-jr. I didn't want it to go to waste. The point being, everyone knows by now the insanity of the drought facing California and if you did any investigating, you would know how ridiculous it is. So again thanks for any support, I'm setting more realistic goals and taking the last two weeks of May off from red meat, instead of the whole month. I'll leave you with this fun fact.

  20% of California's water goes to Alfalfa production. The majority of which is shipped off to...anyone? You guessed it! China!