JAK CHAT

Bringing Back  the Shoulder Pad Generation For JAK ,  it must be a slow news day  if I have to resort back to 80's fashion.  Sorry, dudes...if you thought I would be talking football shoulder pads...hate to disappoint you.  You might just want to scroll on down to the meat and potatoes of today's newsletter. There probably isn't a day that goes by that I wonder how my one time small framed, average 34B body morphed into Read more... this blob.  One would think I should get over it, but it's what I've had to work with since the birth of my first child some 17 years ago:  thirty plus more pounds on average, scarred up abdomen  (from 3 c-sections: 2 horizontal, 1 vertical), expanded rib cage, and distinctly rounded and sloped shoulders.  And the funnest part is, what most women perhaps would want... an increase in cup size, came with 4 more inches in band size and 1 more hook in the back. (2 + 1 =3, that's right sista, 3 hooks).  With the last two components (s...

The Rubber Obsession I think my 6 year old son was the first in his class to be told he can no longer wear his silly bands or Silly Bandz (not sure if they are the real thing, or imitation, who really cares?!) to school.  That was already back on September 2nd, his second day of first grade.  That started it's own trend, the full blown ban of those rubbery. colorful, object-shaped bracelets in his classroom.  Perhaps we'll see the full school ban in the future, or has the fad run it's course? If you're a pair of dad entrepreneurs, you hope not!  They recently jumped on the Silly Bandz craze and brought to market The Original Silly Stand , designed to do what else, but keep those crazy rubber bands organized. In my house, I think we need a Silly Bandz detector. I swear, we must have a over 100, but who even knows where they are (although I dedicated a container for each of my younger silly band wearers).  The funny thing is, my kids aren't wearing them a...