Have you ever been knee-deep in a series on your DVR when someone manages to spoil the ending for you? Yeah, me too. It’s frustrating. If you’re anything like me, you like to savor each show at your own pace. Sometimes that mean ...
Experiences are what build personality. Whether it’s traveling, learning to play a musical instrument, participating in sports, engaging in a hobby or simply hanging out with friends, it all crafts us into who we are. While my daughte ...
Last week when I added Escape the Room: The Cursed Dollhouse to our list of family games, I realized something interesting. A lot of time had passed since the first time we played Escape the Room: Mystery at the Stargazer’s Manor, the first ...
A couple years ago while on one of our trips to Huntsville, my brother-in-law talked us into joining him and his friends in an escape room experience. It was a new form of entertainment popping up across the country with a focus on solving ...
One of the highlights of last summer was Nicole and I got to participate in one of the hottest crazes to hit since fondue restaurants. If you haven’t heard about escape rooms, then you’ve been living under a rock. Grab a half do ...
Puzzles come in all shapes and sizes. I’m not referring specifically to jigsaw puzzles, but puzzles in the general sense. There are the types of puzzles you find in newspapers and magazines like Highlights and Games Magazine. You know ...
I’ve been doing a lot of reminiscing lately about movies, TV shows, cartoons and toys from my childhood and young adult years. It could be the result of excessive hours locked up inside or maybe it has something to do with the realiza ...
If there’s one positive thing that’s come out of this quarantine, it’s that it has brought out the creativity in people. As everything from school and work to travel have been cancelled and events rescheduled, it has been ...
Can you keep a secret? We play a lot of games as a family and at our game meet-ups, but cooperative games are by far the ones I enjoy the most. Dice games come a close second. We’ve found a lot of games that are a mishmash of these an ...
If you were listening carefully, you probably heard a collective “yee-haw” from parents across the country as kids returned to school following a long holiday break. During warmer weather, when tensions get high or boredom sets ...