Families

I wish I was Dave Ramsey’s nephew.  Then all those family holiday dinners could have been spent learning at the feet of the master of money.  Money Management is one of my weakest links.  When I was raised, we were self-taught and tight-lipped about money matters. Not anymore.

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We asked the major Yakima area cemeteries what dates  Memorial Day weekend flowers would be removed or needed to be picked up by.

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Thinking back to when I last lost a tooth, I believe the tooth fairy brought me a nickel…or a dime ...but chump change by today’s standards!  Delta Dental conducted a Tooth Fairy Poll and they discovered plenty under the pillow!

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The 29th annual race is coming up on Saturday June 1 at Sarg Hubbard Park and the Yakima Greenway.

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We have a cat. No, they have a cat…my wife and daughter.  She (cat, not wife) is old and getting senile but she still rules the house.  I have tried. I play the allergy card, the hairball and germs card…even the “suck the life out of our daughter while she sleeps card” but to no avail.  The wife says she’s known the cat longer than me.  And now this! 

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They call it the “best breakfast in town” but it’s as much about the people you’ll meet as it is the meat you’ll eat!  In addition to delicious food cooked for you, great conversation and a chance to meet new friends. 

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AH yes I remember it well…The trip to the doctor for the ultra sound to determine the sex of our baby.  The excitement, the speculation, the search for boy & girl names when all along, the answer to the question  “what are you having” was as plain as the nose on my wife’s beautiful face!  Allow me to explain why I could have/should have stopped my name search at Katelyn (my 4-yr old tornado)

Scientists say beautiful women are more likely to have baby girls than their …er…um…”less beautiful” counterparts.

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All the more reason for parents to be on the lookout for their kid’s cell phone behavior.  If you catch them sending sex based messages, don’t let them try to tell you it’s no big deal. According to a study from the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Californian teens who engage in "sexting" -- that is, sending and receiving sexually explicit texts and images -- are most likely taking other sexual risks, too.

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This one is just for fun…a measure of how far we have come as a society.  It surfaces from time to time and it came to me in an email with a smirk from one of my buddies.  As the cigarette ad once said…you’ve come a long way baby

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On Friday, March 15, the Children’s Underground will be hosting its second annual Blossom Festival from 5 to 8 p.m.

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