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Mom brought all of that fun to the publishing company, having monthly lunches to honor the employees and a month of activities at Christmastime, including Pancake and Pajama Day. (I’ve thought of doing that at Duck Commander, but I’m not sure if I could talk the guys into coming to work in their PJs. Actually, the thought of that is a little scary!) Her work in this area helped the company win the “Best Christian Workplace in America” award for five years in a row!
    Mom continues to make life fun for her grandkids. They call her Two-Mama and call my dad Two-Papa, and we couldn’t live without them! We built a house next door to my parents about five years ago, and our kids just go back and forth. It’s been an extra blessing while we’re filming the show. Life’s busy, and I never feel guilty about leaving my kids with Two-Mama while I film or work. Two-Mama is always there, and I know they’re in great hands!
    Some of my other favorite memories of growing up are of us traveling as a family. I think traveling is a great gift to be able to give your kids in order to expose them to different cultures and people around the world. My dad always tooktime off to take us on awesome vacations. We went snow skiing every winter and to the beach every summer. We were blessed to be able to go incredible places like China, Austria, and Germany, and we even went to two Olympic Games. Not all of the places we traveled were that exotic though. Every year, we went with Mamaw and Papaw Howard on what we called “Grandkids’ Vacation.” My papaw Howard had an RV, so this was usually a road trip to Branson, Missouri. One year the RV broke down right in front of a mall. Papaw said that was his most expensive breakdown ever. We shopped the whole time we waited for the RV to get fixed!
    Like I said, Dad was a hard worker. He didn’t golf, hunt, or have any other hobbies besides work and family. He never missed any of our sporting events, and nowadays, he never misses one of the grandkids’ activities. He may be in the stands reading over a contract, but he is there. He’s a great Two-Papa. One time our daughter, Bella, was telling me how Two-Papa’s favorite thing to do is to take them anywhere they want to go. All the grandkids know that if they want something, ask Two-Papa. Every time they ask him to take them on a snow cone run, he stops whatever he’s doing and says, “I was waiting for you to ask me that!” And they hop in his T-Bird and go get snow cones. The best thing about it is that he not only takes them, but he makes them feel like that’s exactly what he wanted to do.
    After Dad sold Howard Publishing to Simon & Schuster, he continued as the president of the company for three years. Then after he and Mom took some time off to travel,Daddy came to work for us at Duck Commander, working with budgets and contracts. You know we like to keep it all in the family! He is an invaluable asset with all of his business knowledge and experience. Plus, Dad’s a detail person, while Willie is more of a big-picture guy. Like everything else at Duck Commander, it seems that when Dad came on board, God provided us with what we needed most, and He continues to do it over and over again.
    Yep, there are a lot of differences between our two families. Unlike Kay, Mom is not a cook. She actually doesn’t even care about food. Never has. I would say Mom pretty much just eats to live rather than lives to eat like the Robertson family. Dad had colon cancer in 2000, and my parents became pescetarians after that, which means they eat only fruit, veggies, and things that swim. They actually went to a “camp” to learn how to eat vegetarian. We’ve made fun of them for years for going to “veggie camp,” but I have actually tried to get Willie to go there with me sometime. I don’t want to give up meat, but it wouldn’t hurt to get more veggies in our diet. I doubt I’ll ever get him to set foot there, but he did actually get into