We have a group of friends that arranges to drop off dinner every other night for the first 2 - 3 weeks after baby is born. For us it was very helpful as you don’t have to worry about what to cook for those days. Another great option is to make a bunch of freezer meals that they can stash for the days cooking just…

Rather than getting a stroller get them gift cards for a stroller. My wife and I took months upon months of researching, going to the store and looking, browsing used ads, and so on before we decided on the stroller for us. Now is has survived two kids and innumerable walks and rain storms.

Actually, I'm Canadian. And it is very much a problem due to the legislation requiring car seats and booster seats. The car seats are supposed to be used until they are over 3 and most kids are in boosters of one kind or another until 8.

A very important point to consider, that ties into finances, is that once you have three children the affordability of vehicles that the family will be comfortable in goes way down. With two kids you can easily fit in a mid sized sedan or larger vehicle. With three, you need to switch to a 8 person station wagon, mini…

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Sure hope those studies are right. Just this weekend my 1 yr old kept dropping his cheese string in the garden then picking it up and eating it. It was hard, but I figure that I ate a lot more disgusting things as a child and I survived just fine and rarely ever get sick.

I had my four year old daughter help me stack fire wood this week. Yet getting her to do any indoor chores is a constant fight.

Just an FYI that I only discovered two days ago:

Oh, I have been trying the beer and chips diet and still haven't put on weight. I ride bike to work, about 27 km round trip, every work day of the year. That seems to be a good way to offset the beer and chips.

I'm 6'1" and currently weight 155lbs, that is the most I have ever weighed and it is due to the fact that in the last year I cycled almost 6000 km and had to increase the diet to account for it. Honestly, weighing more than 150lbs is a huge psychological barrier for me because it made me feel like I was putting on…

About half the time I actually think that. But I have always made sandwiches on buns rather than bread, so getting some good buns makes all the difference. That and some cheese melted on the bun in the toaster oven before assembling the sandwich, mmmm.

I eat a sandwich most every day while at work. My reasoning is, the sandwich is just there to provide the substantial lunch portion and fill the stomach.

I believe it is correct. The optimal viewing distance is the distance at which you can see individual pixel elements. The pixels on a 720p display are much larger, so you have to sit further away before they become indistinguishable from the rest of the image.

To me the issue isn't that the cars are unsafe or the roads are unsafe. It is that the reaction times of the driver have to be that much faster at higher speeds because things go wrong a lot faster.

I grew up next to an MAF station in the jungles of Ecuador. Their pilots were always top notch. One of my friends is actually flying with MAF in Papua New Guinea right now.

I love NCIX. I live just a few hours from some of their main West Coast warehouses, so I will often place an order at 9am and have it delivered the next day without paying for any special kind of shipping!

I have never bought bleeding edge gadgets. I love researching and keeping up on the bleeding edge but am way to frugal to spend the money on an unknown.

I had my Sansa mp3 player for close to 8 years before it died on me. Twas a great investment at the time.

I would go with the $300 PC as a base build and then add in a 128 GB SSD for the OS install. This will make the machine boot/resume from sleep almost immediately.

I do the opposite of skipping meals. I just have extra meals, while traveling I will eat one to two extra meals in the day, small meals but still meals, that adjust my body to the timezone I am moving to.