Dad Asks Daughter to Make A Promise – The Result is…
This father asks his daughter to repeat a pledge. She is game until the very end.
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Joe Ditzel
Joe Ditzel Has Some Problems
Family
Straight Outta Walmart – Mom Hip Hop
Hey, kids, your mom’s got this! She’s laying down some hip hop Walmart style.
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Dad Knows Daughter Well
Dad answers questionnaire for 11-month-old daugter http://t.co/rhQhyv9UpX
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Now That’s a Novel Way To Have A Baby
Sure, you can do it the old-fashioned way. You might be interested in this new way to have a baby.
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Dad and Kids Sing Bohemian Rhapsody In Car
This family does their best Queen cover.
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Mom Songs
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Recently a video swept social media of a baby reacting emotionally to her mom’s singing. This story touched me because my mom would also sing to us, from the time we were babies through high school.
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Baby Feels The Music
This baby reacts emotionally to a song. She is listening to her mom sing “My Heart Can’t Tell You No.”
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Recreating Awful Family Pictures
What do you do with ridiculous family pictures? You recreate them years later. of course.
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Six Ways to Spend the $250,000 Your Grandmother Left You
1. Start a naked bowling league.
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2. Invest in a car that runs on power generated by the human cold.
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3. Build a golf course consisting of 1.5 holes.
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4. Start a skateboarding school for adorable dogs in funny videos.
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5. Create a social media site for people in the Witness Protection System.
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6. Start a storage company targeting ex-girlfriends with huge amounts of excess baggage.
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Problems Pin
My dad was to the point: “Sit down, shut up.” My mom tried to treat each of the kids as an individual but there were a lot of us. So she pinned our individual problems on tags on our shirts: “Get off the furniture, ‘anxiety disorder’! Go get your brothers ‘lacks confidence’ and ‘easily bored and frustrated’ and set the table! Put away your toys ‘confused in thinking and has difficulty understanding the world around them’!
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Grandpa’s Garden
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I’ve been jumping rope lately in an attempt to lose my gut. So far so good- I’ve lost 20 pounds and counting. Jumping rope is convenient. The rope is light and packs easily. Recently I was visiting relatives and broke out my rope to get in a quick workout. My 9-year-old niece wandered by and, as usual, offered her opinion.
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Crowded House
My father and mother were basking in the glow of their first year of marriage. They were sitting on the porch sipping lemonade when my mom announced lovingly, “I’m already sick of looking at you. Let’s have a kid.”
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Ditzels Through History
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I’m tracing my family tree. I feel that the history of each family is the real history of the United States. I want to find out why my ancestors left Germany in the 1880’s to settle in Dayton. I want to learn first hand the sacrifices they made. Plus I want to see if there is any hidden treasure they left that rightfully belongs to me.
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Ditzel Mobile
My father was, how do you say, frugal. When it came to our family cars, he was at his “frugalest”. When I was in high school we had a 1965 Mercury Comet. We pleaded for a newer car. It was embarrassing to pick up girls in this car. The doors were as heavy as a door to a safe. If the door didn’t close on your date and kill them, they cut their knee on the 8-track tape machine hanging down from the dash.
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Y’all Pass the Puck
I’ve moved a lot. I was born in Dayton, then moved to Columbus, Austin, Edmonton, Des Moines, Akron, Columbus (II), Cleveland, Columbus (III), Los Angeles, San Francisco, and then back to Los Angeles (II). My brother John, who remembers everything, claims we also lived in Iceland in the summer of 1968 and Indonesia during the monsoon season in 1975.
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