Non Bloggers: A Series

My favorite part of English class was when we finally got around to reading the work of the people who were less likely to share it. Not that it was any better or worse, it was just mysterious, I guess because some people ::wait for it:: DON'T COMPULSIVELY OVERSHARE.

Not a bit.

I know, right? But it is just as often that these people have just as much if not more to say.

When I first met Matt, he contacted me through my first blog on myspace. I if I remember correctly, it was a strange kind of serendipitous thing, a story too long for me to tell right now. My point is, the people you meet on the internet sometimes become actual real breathing people who you one day look back and say WOW DUDE, we've known each other for 5 years now.

His kid has aged from 3 to 8, so the Family Sized Fun they are having is a little something something we have to look forward to.

And now, for Matt. (I can't TELL you how much I love to share my friends with each other!)

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Creativity and Cardboard

I'm divorced, and I am fortunate that I get to see my son every weekend. A lot of divorced dads are not so lucky. And on our weekends, I try to stay busy. I get to be the "fun dad". We seldom have homework, though a couple of weeks ago, I helped him with a school project - we made a 3D model of the Pantheon for his multicultural fair at school. And while helping him with that education, I also educated him on knife skills by showing him the wrong way to use a utility knife to cut cardboard. We both learned a lesson!

Last Saturday was also a fun-packed day. It started too early as Alexander woke me before 7am. On my day off. *evil glare of love* I slowly drug myself through the paces of getting myself ready to face the world. We started by watching an episode of Doctor Who, brought to us via carrier pigeon from England. Quality stuff, that. Recommended. This episode was a bit scary, which is why we watched it in the morning, instead of an hour where nightmares would be induced.

After that we headed to Home Depot for their Kid's Workshop. They give the kids fun little wood and nail kits to build, and ours gives Chick-N-Minis from Chick-Fil-A. Today's project was a picket fence planter. Here's info: Kids Workshops at The Home Depot. Lowe's has a similar Build and Grow program: lowesbuildandgrow.com/

After that, we headed to Coliseum of Comics in the Fashion Square Mall for http://freecomicbookday.com. It's a day where comic book stores give out free comics to get new readers. We were able to pick up comic books for Fraggle Rock, Shrek, Toy Story, Superman, The Avengers, and the Green Hornet, all for free!

And then we gathered friends and went to Whole Foods where they were celebrating 12 years of business in Winter Park. They had a cook-out of awesome food - grouper and salmon sandwiches, shrimp kabobs, beef sliders, portobello mushroom burgers, and more for $3 a plate and $1 drafts of Orange Blossom Pilsner and Toasted Coconut Porter. (I free-sampled the porter - not bad at all - a slight coconut aftertaste). And best they had a kids area of arts and crafts, featuring cardboardasauruses and paper bag mushrooms to decorate from the Spore Project (http://dougrhodehamel.wordpress.com/) and some dry bean art (on real canvas boards). These are all awesome arts and crafts - way better than the face painting you usually find at such a place.

Like this.

Carboardasauruses are the brainchild of an artist who invented them for a dinosaurs and cavemen themed party and then began making them for kids at Misty Forest, and enrichment center in Orlando. http://www.mistyforest.org/ They're easy to make using recycled cardboard, and look wicked cool.


Best of all, unlike the Pantheon, this kept me from losing blood.

We came home and had barbecued tofu and homemade french fries and watched Star Wars Episode III, Alexander's favorite. It was a good day, full of geekiness and creativity!

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Gosh, Matt. Imma hafta get me some fridge boxes now, I AM SO INSPIRED!

Do you have some fun cardboard crafts to share? TELL US! Would you like to join our Family Sized Fun Community as a Guest Non-Blogger?

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