Rob Sachs

It's 6:00 a.m. and a tiny finger is poking you in the face. "Daddy, I'm hungry."

You turn to your spouse. With a beleaguered moan, she reminds you that it's your day to get up with the kid. You try to reason with your tot.

"Go back to sleep....

Recently I read Glennon Melton's blog post talking about how people should stick their carpe diem where the sun don't shine when it comes to reminding parents about enjoying the moment of child rearing. This got me thinking "Why stop at railing against carpe diem?" Over the years...

This year my wife and I got out ahead of the game and took our "holiday card picture" back in November. This was extremely helpful since it eliminated last year's stress of scrambling through a year's worth of photos to find a decent one. (The winning pic required some clever...

County Fair season is upon us which means weekends filled with cotton candy, Flying Bobs, bingo games, and farm animals. Bringing your tot to a fair is a great activity that gets you and your offspring out of the house, gives your spouse a well deserved break, and...

A lot of hoopla has been made this week about the royal wedding, and of course, all the royal wedding tchotchkes for sale.

Tune in to any of the 24-hour cable news channels and you're bound to see coverage of Will and Kate and their plates, hats and pens....

For a few fleeting weeks out of the year, Washington D.C. gets transformed into beautiful hues of pink and cream as long dormant cherry blossom trees suddenly burst with color. The event draws hundreds of thousands of tourists to The National Mall and makes locals like me annoyed...

Back in my 20s, my then-roommate said one word to me that induced me to leap off a couch and jump into a car at 11 o'clock on a Friday night: "Vegas!" Before I knew it, I was crammed into his red Mitsubishi Eclipse, barreling down Interstate 15 for a...

This month Taco Bell began giving away coupons for 10 million tacos as a way to reward customers who were perhaps scared away by a lawsuit which claims their beef mixture contains only 35% meat. But even if their product is 88% real meat as the chain advertises,...

Here's a true story:

About six years ago I was dating a pretty brunette from Massachusetts. One night as we were making out on her couch, I inadvertently made some strange mouth noises (it can happen to the best of us). Apparently, one of my mumblings sounded very close to...

There are still a few great weeks left to summer so if you're thinking of heading out to the beach, you might want to take some precautions so you don't end up being a bad beach tourist. I recently took my family up to the beach in Rhode Island for...

Back in my day, things were different. I never thought I would start off a blog post by saying that ... I grew up straddling Generation X and Y, so I can proudly claim to be a member of both the hackers and slackers. We're also the ones who are...

A lot people say that the happiest day in their life is when they became a parent, but as I've just discovered having my second child wasn't necessarily the second happiest day of my life. To be clear, my wife and I are thrilled about the birth of Chloe, a...

With the United States out of the World Cup, I needed to pick a new team to back to get interested in watching the games, cause let's be honest, I don't like soccer enough to just enjoy a random game between two teams I know nothing about. But the question...

With one month to go in my wife Anna's second pregnancy I'm about to become a dad all over again. This time around things seem to be going a lot faster. I remember before our daughter Rachel was born we were running around like crazy trying to get the house...