I’ve lost count of how many polyomino games we have featured here in the past year or so. The interesting thing is that while each used these common shapes, they’ve all had unique themes, boards, rules and goals. As an example, ...
Last Saturday I agreed to take Kennedy to the trampoline park to celebrate her birthday with a couple of friends. She coordinated it late and sent a final text to two friends on Friday at 11pm with details: trampoline park at 10:30 AM. She ...
Isn’t technology such an awesome thing? Our phones are miniature computers and cameras. We can snap, edit and share pictures as well as send emails. We can visit social networks to see what friends and family are up to. Oh, and they ...
Whether online or offline, we’re big advocates for encouraging people to play games. Games are great as entertainment, awesome teaching tools, facilitate bonding, are social and so much more. Whenever I find an opportunity to encoura ...
A friend recently posted on her Facebook page about how her husband was rockin’ the fatherhood thing by using scrap lumber and building a bunk bed for to accommodate the 18″ dolls that her youngest child plays with. In a digital ...
Following the recent iOS update, I was scrolling through my apps to see if I needed to turn on the new “Offload Unused Apps” feature. Every time there’s an update – or for that matter, any time I receive the “y ...
It’s time to come clean about something. History was my least favorite class in school because, well, yawn. It didn’t keep my attention and my teachers didn’t have fun ways to for us to learn. As odd as it sounds, despite ...
Have you ever done something that you know isn’t really right but you want to make a point? We try to teach our kids about rules, but there are definitely some subtle ways we impress our opinions upon others. It isn’t uncommon f ...
We don’t hide our thrifty nature. It’s something we’re proud of and regularly discuss the amazing deals we find at thrift stores. Sometimes we discuss other deals we discover and last September I told you about the PatPat ...
Why is it that kids don’t want to do things that are good for them? Think about it… Exercising, eating their vegetables, showering, washing their face and hands and brushing their teeth are among the things that just about every ...