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What if you died today?

I don’t mean that as a threat or an ultimatum, but rather, what if you were the victim of a tragic accident and killed today? Don’t get me wrong, I’m an incredibly optimistic person. I never obsess about the worst case scenario. I do, however; acknowledge that it could occur, but I factor in all possible outcomes and accept that it will be one of those. The worst case and the best case normally don’t happen, it’s somewhere in the middle. But what if you, or I, never came home again to see our loved ones?

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With or without kids, life’s better in costume with Buy Costumes #Ad

This is a sponsored post, all thoughts are our own. Spoiler alert: I’m a dad. When you have children dressing up is more fun. I marginally enjoyed dressing up in costume when we didn’t have children. Now that there are small people around who really get into dressing up; it is more fun and I am super eager to get into costume with them this year. Children think you’re hiding behind a 2” tree, put on a superhero costume and you will have them jumping for joy.

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As a group or Han Solo, life’s better in costume with Buy Costumes #ad

This is a sponsored post. All thoughts are our own. We don’t normally do theme costumes as a family. However this is the first year that our oldest has really expressed an interest and his younger brother is following suit. Previously the eldest was lukewarm to dressing up, but loved looking like an animal. It was at a parade last year where he realized that if he dressed up and looked the part, then people will give or in that case, throw more candy his way.

This year we built the family costume around his costume choice at Buy Costumes.

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Toy animals, pink stuff and a child’s desire to help dad before going to the Oncologist

The Oncologist is not your typical doctor. The audiologist, cardiologist, plastic surgeon and immunologist, just to mention a few can all be figured out their prefix. Granted one may think that the plastic surgeon only works on little plastic dolls, but what child hasn’t ripped the arm off of Joe or Barbie? However, what is the ‘onco’ that these doctors are treating? I never knew that fact until I was an adult and kind of bummed out when I had to go see one. Everything is fine now. We have quarterly visits to Doctor Lee and our son wasn’t too happy with us on our recent visit.

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Get cooking with #ShroomTember, #Blendability, less fat & more flavor

I have partnered with Life of Dad, LLC for the #ShroomTember promotion. Sponsored by The Mushroom Council, the #ShroomTember promotion gives anybody the chance to win a $500 Visa gift card. We cook for the family, there we are. Sometimes through the process of cooking we get in a rut of conformity, stale recipes and sleepy taste buds. I’ve always been a fan of mushrooms. One of my top 5 favorite dishes is the classic large portabella top with capers, horseradish, feta, bacon and pimento cheese. For this task we took a normally meat dominant dish and replaced half of it with mushrooms. Let’s see if our taste buds noticed!

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Join Cinnamon Toast Crunch celebrate 30 years and win cool stuff

Time is a merciless foe and a constant reminder of bad hairstyles, questionable clothing choices and music that you can’t believe you once loved. Some of those things that celebrate anniversaries are great and timeless- unlike those epaulets from the 80s. This year marks the 30^th anniversary of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and to celebrate they’re doing all sorts of fun things, giving away lots of stuff, having a #Cinnablast and ending with a big ole birthday brunch in Austin, Texas.

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X Games superstar and professional skateboarder P-Rod coming to Atlanta this weekend

If you’re a skateboarder or into amazing athleticism, you’re going to want to see what Cricket Wireless is bringing to Atlanta. Skateboarding legend P-Rod will be in Atlanta from September 12-13 doing live appearances, autograph sessions, tricks, selfies and there will be tons of giveaways too.

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The International Photography Contest for Kids 2014 is open

I take lots of photos for work. Some of them are great and some of them are simply stock images for moods or seasons that I need. Our almost 5 year old is getting a child’s camera for his birthday (don’t tell him!) and he isn’t allowed to take photos with ours yet. However, in honor of the International Photography Contest for Kids by National Geographic Kids we let him take a couple shots.

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