Are you stuck on Christmas gift ideas for your husband? For a woman, you can always just buy something pretty. But what does a guy want? One of my most popular posts ever was my Christmas stocking stuffers for your husband--and in that post I give some really unique...
For those of you who don't get the weekly newsletter, Sheila's 50th birthday is today!In the Friday newsletter last week I (Rebecca) sent out a request for birthday wishes and wow--we got a lot! Sheila started this blog in 2008. That's twelve years of doing this....
Do you remember that scene at the end of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, when Toula's parents buy them a house? And then you find out that the house is right next door the parents' house? Well, let me tell you a story. Last month, on...
It's Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada (a holiday), and we are all feeling thankful yet a little anxious. I'm writing this on Saturday morning, and as of yet there is no baby (and Rebecca is past her due date). But last week on social media I was posting about a...
I need your help to figure out how to help this woman who wants to be sexier. I can't do it myself, because Saturday, I did this: I was cutting an onion to make dinner when Connor and Rebecca came back to town for the weekend and after the first slice thought, "Wow,...
What do you do if you found your daughter's sex toy, or your son says something highly offensive at school? I have such a huge backlog of reader questions that I've decided to take a few Mondays this summer when I normally do a deep-dive into one question and instead...
I'm horribly jetlagged, we had a wonderful trip to England, and I wish I could say I was excited to be home. Usually by the end of a trip I'm thinking, "Okay, this has been fun, but it's time to go home." I really wasn't thinking...
We've been having an amazing time in England! We spent a few days in London, and then we've been in Oxford for two days now. I won't share all my photos; there are too many. But here are just a few snapshots of what we've been...
Summer is here! School is out, the warm days have begun, and hopefully you'll all be getting a bunch of vacation coming soon! (Although to all my New Zealand and Aussie readers, I know it's winter. I remember being Down Under last May! So I hope you are enjoying...
Here at To Love, Honor, and Vacuum we use a lot of stock photos. And that's for a very specific reason: we get a ton of traffic from Pinterest. In fact, Pinterest is one of the #1 ways people find this website. Facebook is another big one--we need photos for that,...
In my continuing quest to help couples just have fun and CHILL together, I want to tell you about our newest favourite 2-player board game. With thanks to Gen 42 Games for sponsoring this post! A few years ago I wrote a post on 20 awesome two-player games...
I hope all my American readers are enjoying a lovely Thanksgiving weekend with family--and maybe even a busy Black Friday shopping spree. As a Canadian, I got a fun holiday yesterday, since I don't tend to post when Americans aren't reading (since y'all are about 75%...
What do you do if you've been dating someone for a long time--but he won't propose? On Mondays I like to take a reader question and take a stab at answering it, and today's is from a woman who has been dating a guy seriously for quite a few years--and who even moved...
"It's almost like military spouses have split personalities," she told me. "You're so proud of what he does, but at the same time, you think, "Why is it always my husband who has to do all that?" I have asked that "why is it always my husband" question before--why is...
I am overwhelmed at the support that you all have given me since 9 Thoughts That Can Change Your Marriage was released last week. I'm thrilled that hundreds of you bought it on the 18th and really boosted my Amazon ranking (thank you!). And most of all I'm thrilled...