Standiford Family

On Thursday the 25th I was invited by Justin to go to Chicago and watch a Cubs game with him and Bryan. I was pretty excited since I haven’t been to a game in many years. We had a smooth drive in, only getting stuck in traffic for a short time before taking [...]

Today I want to wish my wonderful, talented, loving, creative wife a Happy Birthday. I can’t believe that today marks the 16th year that we have been together, especially since you are only 28. There are a lot of other things scheduled for today but I hope we can carve out enough time [...]

This sibling rivalry thing is getting out of hand fast. Megan not wanting to be outdone by her younger sister, “cracked” her tooth on the bus yesterday. She showed me that it was loose when I got home from work, but it didn’t seem like it was ready to come out. I [...]

I came across this site today and thought that some of you crafty people might find it useful.  After clicking on a particular font you can enter your own text to get a preview of what that text would look like in that font.  Pretty cool feature.  Most fonts are free for personal use.  Try [...]

Today was quite a day. The day started with Megan calling me at work to tell me that Little Bowser (one of her goldfish) had died. Just what we needed on the first day of 2nd grade. Kelly said she was pretty upset at first but she was pretty calm by the [...]

I think I could learn a lot from some of these tips, maybe you could too.
Balance is important. When one aspect of our life becomes too dominant we loose that balance and experience conflict and unhappiness. It’s not easy and sometimes it feels like a juggling match but if we develop some healthy habits it [...]

This artist has created fake people and animals, placing them all over Washington DC and New York
Mark Jenkins: Street Installations

This is obviously not what you are used to seeing when you come to standifordfamily.com. We have experienced a catastrophic server mishap with our past hosting provider (which I don’t blame for any of this - sometimes things just happen with technology) and I am currently in the process of getting things setup with [...]

This article refers to a happy employee, but this quote from that article can relate to happiness in life as well.
I feel that God has given us the ultimate gift called Life. However, we only have this gift for a limited time. How long remains to be seen. He has left us with a choice [...]