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The Familyman Best of Travel

Best Family Restaurant —

1. Cracker Barrel (make sure you each get a 10 cent candy stick and sit on the front porch after the meal)
2. Fazoli’s kids eat free night
3. Denny’s kids eat free night

4. Culver’s kid’s meals – where else can you geta  good meal, drink, and ice cream dessert? Ok, DQ does the same…but I like Culver’s better.

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Raising Andrew – Duane Kelley

I have a 5 year old boy named Andrew. He is going to be 6 in just a couple weeks. He’s a short, red-headed, loveable boy. If you visit us he will pull you into the middle of our living room and introduce you to me and my wife with such a flourish, you will feel like you were on The Tonight Show. He is charming, funny, playful and kind. He will dance for you, sing for you, and bring you a glass of water without being asked.

He is tremendous fun. I’m not saying this because he is my son. It’s all true. But even with all that joy. Even with all that love and charm and happiness, the truth is, when I look deep into my soul…when I look at the dark places that I don’t want you to see…the God’s honest truth is sometimes I wish he weren’t my kid. It pains me to admit that. It hurts to the core that sometimes he is too much work to care for. To put it simply, Andrew is a lot of work.

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Animated preview

My son Sam (15) deisgned and animated this little Familyman Adventure...thing-before-the-blog-video. I thouhgt I'd let you take a look and brag on my son. He made this whole thing. The RV that looks exactly like ours...he created it from pixels. Even the RV honk is a recording of our honkin big RV horns. It's almost like being there!
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A time for EVERYTHING! (adults only) – Jim Brewster

We have stumbled on a concept that almost instantly removed Sex and Sexual Intimacy as a source of pain, anger, resentment, and bitterness in our marriage and move it to a source of great bonding, pleasure, fun and appreciation for each other. The change was so immediate and has remained firmly intact for 5 years that we feel it might be of value to you.
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Score One for the Familyman

When it come right down to RV verses Familyman...this Familyman always wins (most of the time). So score one for Todd. I had this persistant problem of losing water from my water tank through a faulty overflow pipe. Read more.
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The Familyman Mobile is out of Mothballs

Well, it’s always thrilling (and relieving) to turn the key and hear the Familyman Mobile roar to life. I couldn’t have asked for a nicer day, and I backed the old gal next to the house and have begun the long list of things I need to do before we hit the road.

I was a little surprised by the amount of mouse droppings in the drawers and even on the counter tops. This was the first year I parked it away from the house, and I guess the mice felt safer away from Wilson activity. I spread a box full of fabirc softener sheets all over the RV with little effect (RV urban legend). There were even a few mouse droppings ON one of the softener sheets. So much for that idea.

Here’s a list of things I need to do:

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Blogtalk radio interview with Scott McCausey of Christian Devotions Speak UP!

Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! is an outreach of Christian Devotions. Each week host, Scott McCausey, interviews Christian leaders, sports figures, authors, pastors, agents, missionaries and media personalities who are making a difference in the kingdom of God. Scott keeps Christian Devotions Speak UP! on top of and in touch with current issues that Christians face daily, making the show not only enjoyable but informative.

On March 9, 2010 Scott talked with Todd. Here's what they had to say...

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