Jason

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• Posted Had me a blast to Breakfast for Dinner
  While winter in Toronto seems agonizingly long, every time I blink I find the spring months passing by and the summer quickly approaching. Summer planning for our boys is trying to find the balance between organized activities, the peppering of...
• Posted Family matters to Breakfast for Dinner
  We had a great weekend, so busy but by far the best part was the opportunity to spend the majority of the weekend with my extended family at our cottage.  14 people and five dogs made for a lot of...
• Posted Don't ask, tell to Breakfast for Dinner
  My role as a professional communicator obviously comes into play in my personal life.  My wife hates it when I try to think strategically about how we are going to address a conversation with our children or even worse, when...
• Posted Freedom, glorious freedom! to Breakfast for Dinner
  Early on in my parenting career, when I was filled with hope and promise and not covered in jam, I promised myself that I would not forget what it was like to be a kid so I could relate better...
• Posted No comparison to Breakfast for Dinner
  Tasman scored his first soccer goal last night.  It was purposeful gain of the ball, cutting to the centre of the field in front of the goal and blasting a left footer in the top corner.  The keeper never had...
• Posted What's going on? to Breakfast for Dinner
  I am not looking forward to tonight.An email from Hudson's teacher flashed across my screen yesterday, letting me (us) know that he is at the end of his rope trying to get Hudson to focus and not fool around in...
• Posted Weekend at home to Breakfast for Dinner
  Spring finally arrived in Toronto this past weekend and without anything truly burdensome on the agenda, we stuck close to home to get a few things done in anticipation of ongoing sunny weather.First was a Friday night at the boy's...
• Posted Fabman to Breakfast for Dinner
  I have never had qualms or concerns about any gender biased toys my boys would play with growing up.  Want to play with dolls?  Go right ahead. Wear a dress?  Knock your garters and socks off. Stereotypical gender roles within...
• Posted Stinging barbs to Breakfast for Dinner
  Kids can say some pretty hurtful things sometimes.  It is usually in a moment of anger or tired or hungry or crashing from the thirteen orange pops they snuck, but no matter what excuse you afford them, the root of...
• Posted Celebrity hall pass list to Breakfast for Dinner
  Nothing like a little celebrity fodder to kick of a sunny Monday, so without further ado, here is my top five celebrity hall pass list (celebrities I can spend some quality time with without marital repercussion, including judgment or envy). 1....
• Posted Sans kids to Breakfast for Dinner
  My wife and I are very lucky to have a large social circle. Sure we complain about the many obligations flung our way, which, combined with family commitments, make for a pretty crowded calendar.  But all in all, we love...
• Posted The weather up here is fine to Breakfast for Dinner
  13 years old, six foot three, 204lbs.  Those were my stats when I entered grade nine and tried out for the high school football team. The coach quickly named me Baby Huey, which, if you didn't know, is an old...
• Posted Breaking Boughs to Breakfast for Dinner
  Quality sleep remains the ever elusive animal. Even with a remarkably comfortable new bed and a better diet and occasional over the counter drugs, I find myself lying awake in the middle of the night. I can feel the anxiety...
• Posted Sup? to Breakfast for Dinner
  Waiting for a bus in the cold or toast to pop when hungry takes forever. Kids growing up?  Not so much.  In one holiday weekend my bashful oblivious son went from ew girls to hey baby lets chat on instragram...
• Posted Spring cleaning to Breakfast for Dinner
  As you may or may not have noticed, I took some time off from my blogging duties here at UrbanMoms.  No, no I was not off on a whirlwind book tour promoting my yet to be published novel, nor was...
• Posted It's just an expression to Breakfast for Dinner
  Heart to hearts with your kids can be really special moments. There is nothing like helping iron out a specific imbroglio in that 10 to 500 seconds where screens or younger brothers are not screeching in the background. I can...
• Posted Lazy parenting to Breakfast for Dinner
  Parenting is challenging at the best of times, knowing if the decisions you are making are pointing your children in the right direction is chock full of pressure. I hope I am doing an ok job, but I also know...
• Posted South for mother to Breakfast for Dinner
  It could have been more elaborate.  We could have tied bows around our waists and arrived at her self thrown 70th birthday cocktail party.  But we didn't.  We giggled outside her condo door as we waited for our stepfather to...
• Posted V-day to Breakfast for Dinner
  "You can switch on the television if you like," offered the tiny nurse. "That's ok, I have a book," I replied, waving my e-reader in the air. The floor was covered in dollops of water, melted snow I brought with...
• Posted Sloping memories to Breakfast for Dinner
  So it's two days until my vasectomy.  Nervous?  Not really. Although all indicators are showing there is no way I am going to able to milk this for longer than a couple of hours.  This is too bad because I...
• Posted Moans from an optimist to Breakfast for Dinner
  I am an eternal optimist.  Not in the life coachy, post every positive energy mantra into my Facebook status kind of way.  Just always believe that if you keep the sinister cynical dogs at bay and look for the quality...
• Posted Palm sisters to Breakfast for Dinner
  Steph and I often find ourselves sitting on the couch, bathing in a brief respite from the frenzy, reflecting on our week or planning for the remainder of it. At some point in the conversation, we usually mention the speed...
• Posted It's 4 U 2 to Breakfast for Dinner
  What is the appropriate cell phone age?It was a hot topic when I crowd sourced on Facebook the question what was the appropriate age to get a cell phone for my eldest son.  Lots of valuable comparative notes from both...
• Posted Snaps to Breakfast for Dinner
  Harried lives, accelerated time, breathless races to the car, sloth-like getting ready to go outside, the drooling need for a glass of wine or a pint of beer just to feel like an sublime adult again.  Oh the general laments...
• Posted Just might be that time... to Breakfast for Dinner
  As mentioned often (almost to the point of nausea), I love my two boys. I also feel content with having two boys. Sure I long for the wee little girl and the unique relationship that only a father and daughter...
• Posted Blessed to Breakfast for Dinner
  I know I take it for granted how lucky we are. How blessed we are to have two healthy boys murkily wading about our lives. I barely even think about their health to be perfectly honest.  I mean that it...
• Posted Welcome weekend to Breakfast for Dinner
  Sometimes it just happens. For whatever reason, whatever last minute detail falls through, whatever window of opportunity suddenly opens, finding yourself on Monday after a spectacular weekend is a great feeling.  Now the adjective spectacular to describe a weekend is...
• Posted Embrace the blah to Breakfast for Dinner
  Beyond the obvious time to grasp on to all things right and healthy to start anew, January also means the real commencement of winter. Not the airy fairy cocktails and wrapping paper, sleigh bells ring are you listening happy cloud...
• Posted Oh Holy Night? to Breakfast for Dinner
  So we had a great holiday this year and I will not write about all the Christmas minutiae, but there were two things that stood out this year more than anything.  The first being our first ever excursion to church...
• Posted Oh Christmas Tree! to Breakfast for Dinner
  Been focused on the season lately and all that entails from a family and social responsibility point of view, add some additional work fluctuation and writing here became less of a priority.  I refuse to touch on the horror of...