Tag Archives: the prettiest-girl-in-the-world

What No One Tells You About Having Kids

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Joe Cummings

Things No One Tells You About Kids You get emails from the school about head lice. HEAD LICE!!! It’s just so NOT something I worried about before kids. 2. Colds. You get a lot of them. The math is simple. … Continue reading →

Posted in Hockey Life, Parenting, Top 10 lists | Tagged dieting, empty nest, food, hockey dad, kids, mustang, prettiest girl in the world, southpark, step-dad, stepdad, stepdaddy, stepdaddying, the oldest, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, travel writing | 4 Comments

Date Night – Flirting in a Bookstore

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Time to Talk About Date Nights One of the hardest things to do with work and hockey games and concerts and sick kids and exhausted husbands is to find couple time. For a wedding gift, a friend, Sheila Watson, gave … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Tagged bear spray, bees, books, bookstore, chapters, date night, flirting, flirting in a bookstore, humor, humour, indigo, justjoe, justjoebc, poop, prettiest girl in the world, step-dad, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, where to flirt | 4 Comments

Surrey International Writer’s Conference 2017

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Being an unpublished writer can be frustrating. It’s one of the few jobs where you won’t get a pat on the back. There are no annual reviews. No bonuses. No Christmas Parties. It’s tough to stay motivated. Harder to stay … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged don maass, elana aitkens, humor, humour, michael slade, novels, pitching, robert dugoni, siwc17, steena holmes, surrey, surrey international writers conference, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, writing, yager's war | 2 Comments

Fear

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Fear, true fear, ultimately comes from the emotional part of our brain. Personally, I think it was how we died in a previous life and our spirit stored it that way so we wouldn’t, you know, taunt a lion, again, … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel, Whistler | Tagged fear, humor, humour, parenting, prettiest girl in the world, sasquatch, the oldest, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, travel writing, Traveling with children, Traveling with kids, whistler, zip line, zipline | 2 Comments

Play Us a Song, You’re the Piano Man

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Musical Monday. There are moments you just know will stick with you forever. Often they’re bad but when they’re good, they’re very good. While in Whistler, I had both. But first, the good one. We all had ideas of what … Continue reading →

Posted in Piano, Whistler | Tagged #1, arts whistler, concerto, Grieg, humor, Liszt, music, octave skills, Piano, Rachmaninoff, step-dad, stepdad, stepdaddy, stepdaddying, tchaikovksy concerto #1, Tchaikovsky, the entertainer, the oldest, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, travel writing, Traveling with children, whistler | 5 Comments

Canada Day 2017- When You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Ok, so after Nerf Wars, there was still hope that I’d be right, that every vacation needed to be planned, but after an hour or so in the hotel pool, we retired to our room overlooking the Inner Harbour and … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting, Travel, Traveling with kids, Victoria | Tagged BC Ferries, canada day, grand pacific, humor, planning, prettiest girl in the world, Smash-up, spoons, the oldest, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, travel writing, Traveling with kids, victoria | Leave a comment

Canada Day Epic Nerf War 2017

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Joe Cummings

The epic Nerf war of 2017 would be fought in the backyard, a yard full of rocky outcroppings, bushes, trees, chairs and one trampoline. Rules were set (rules being even better than plans, IMHO.) They were a mix of adult … Continue reading →

Posted in Parenting, Travel, Traveling with kids | Tagged alamo, call of duty, guns, humor, humour, nerf, nerf guns, no prisoners, prettiest girl in the world, stepdaddying, terminator, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, Traveling with children, Traveling with kids | Leave a comment

Canada Day July 1st – Part 1/3

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Is War Wrong? I mean, yeah, probably. But a Nerf War? Adults vs kids? That kind of war could be awesome. That was the idea for the first part of the Canada Day Trip Part Deux. The Youngest had brought … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel, Victoria | Tagged backpack, canada day, humor, humour, nerf, nerf wars, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the shine, the youngest, travel writing, Traveling with children, Traveling with kids, victoria | 2 Comments

July 1st Canada Day

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Joe Cummings

Getting up early, are you mad? You wouldn’t think there’s much joy in getting up early, especially with kids. They’re like little alarm clocks… Oh, who are we kidding? They’re like garbage trucks right outside your window emptying a bin … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Travel, Traveling with kids, Victoria, writing | Tagged canada day, day, early morning, iphone, parenting, prettiest girl in the world, the oldest, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, travel writing, Traveling with kids, victoria | Leave a comment

Canada Day – What if Everything Goes Right?

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Joe Cummings

I’ve said it before, but the best stories don’t come from happiness or things going right. They come from falling asleep while waiting in the ferry line and being woken up by honking and a ferry worker banging on your … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Parenting, Travel, Victoria, writing | Tagged BC Ferries, ferry, humor, humour, ice cream, prettiest girl in the world, stepdaddying, tegan and sara, the prettiest-girl-in-the-world, the youngest, travel writing, Traveling with children, Traveling with kids, vancouver, victoria | 1 Comment