In an effort to bring you more of all the wacky and weird that the internet has to offer, here are the Friday links.
1. This YouTube video has been making the rounds, but if you …

After two years of marriage I still am occasionally surprised that I’m somebody’s Mrs. I find being a wife rather delightful and married life suits me very well but there are a few habits of …

The new school year is just around the corner, and my daughter was in need of a replacement lunch  bag. There are the usual Disney princess pepto-pink bags available, but I happened upon doybags.com and …

One of my favorite Cosby Show episodes was the one in which Claire called out Cliff for his addiction to expensive kitchen appliances that gathered dust in a cabinet somewhere. He is giddy about …

Genealogy. Family history. Just ten years ago, family research was conducted with dusty library file cards and headache-inducing microfiche machines. Little old ladies with bobbly hats would shuffle around, clutching photocopies of birth records and …

For years, if anyone asked me if I had any pets, my standard response was “No thanks. I clean up enough poo as it is!”
The idea of owning a dog would break me out into …

Last night I messed up. I lost my temper with my son, and even though it was his 500th act of defiance that day, my reaction was way over the top. I did wrong, and …

After you’ve run the baby/parenting gauntlet for a few years, not much in the way of strange and useless baby gear surprises you any more.  There is gear for every possible permutation of parent, baby …

It took having a son for me to appreciate the fun-loving kid living inside my husband.
My husband, Doug, is the guy you see racing the go-carts at a wildly unsafe speed.  He played video games long before the more socially …

We love this idea for the quickest, easiest-ever rack for displaying plates, particularly in kitchen designs that lean modern and could use a little roughing up: a used shipping pallet.