By Brandy Black Believe it or not last year was the first time that we really explained what gay and gay pride was to our 3 children. It wasn’t that we were waiting for any particular reason, the topic just never came up. Then one day our kids asked us “what does gay mean” and […]
By Brandy Black When I was 24 I had a job in event management, I traveled a couple weeks out of the month going to events like the MTV Movie Awards, The Grammy’s, and VH1 Awards, there was never a dull moment in my twenty somethings. I got up at 5AM and stayed out until […]
In honor of Love Month, we play a fun game with our vlog followers. We offer three scenarios and ask you to guess which one depicts our first kiss!
By Brandy Black As some of you may know we have a YouTube Channel for The Next Family and we have a blast creating content for our subscribers, some silly, some serious and some just super fun! After learning about a Mukbang in which YouTubers eat dinner with their subscribers, we thought we had to try […]
By Brandy Black Susan and I often say that we don’t feel like grown ups on most days. It still seems crazy that we pay a mortgage and have to fix our AC and have 3 kids! How did it all happen so fast? When we were in our early twenties, I wanted to grow […]
By Brandy Black Being two moms we often get a lot of questions about the role my wife and I each play in our relationship. “Who is the mom and who is the dad?” is a question we used to hear a lot, less so now but nevertheless people want to understand the dynamics between […]
By Brandy Black Growing up my mother encouraged open conversations in our house. We talked about anything from periods, to sex, to drugs to suicide. She felt that as long as she knew what I was thinking about and what concerned me that she could help me make better decisions along the way. I think […]
By Brandy Black The beauty of being married to a random, funny, likely ADHD person is the surprise turns that my everyday linear mind doesn’t expect when having mundane conversations with my wife. I’ve learned to follow along with the twists while trying to keep the original intention in mind. Our vlogs tend to go […]
By Brandy Black Parenting is so hard! The heartbreak, stress and worries start when you are trying to get pregnant and it NEVER stops! You worry for your child’s safety, you want them to have friends, you want them to be happy, the list goes on! This week I experienced pain and stress like I […]
We recently received a comment about a couple splitting up and it brought to mind the topic of divorce. My wife and I are no strangers to the topic of divorce. We’ve had discussions about it a few times and each time was scary, but it was also groundbreaking in our relationship. In our most […]
