Labor Day weekend was nice since we had both the girls under the same roof for the first time in a couple weeks. Unfortunately, it was also the last time until who knows when. While Kennedy still lives here, we feel like empty nesters since ...
One of the cool things I love about finding older games at thrift stores is the fact that the industry went through a phase when bigger was better. When plastic was introduced to board games, publishers raced to see what crazy things they c ...
It’s not uncommon for kids to gravitate toward video games over, well, anything else. So it’s important to find things that will engage them offline as well. We have several ideas for family bonding that allow us to really conne ...
I have a love/hate relationship with the memories on Facebook. It’s like a perpetual scrapbook that reminds me what I did on this day a year ago, two years ago… each year since I joined. I’ve recently seen a lot of picture ...
Both of our daughters are of the age where we trust them to download pretty much any app they want. They know that if there is a cost associated with it, they are responsible for reimbursing us. That alone has kept the purchases to a minimu ...
Have you ever played a game and thought to yourself, “Hey, this seems very familiar!”? It’s not uncommon for games to have similarities to others, either on purpose or by accident. Sometimes it’s a coincidence that t ...
Once again, a board game has taught me that you’re never too old to learn something. As I’ve said like one thousand times here, history was never my thing in school. I hated all the reading. I struggled with the memorization. I ...
I’m not much of a history buff, but during our visit to Washington D.C. a couple of years ago we made sure to included a stop at the World War II Memorial. It was new since the last time we had visited the city and it absolutely took ...
We’re exactly one week away from Christmas and you probably haven’t finished your shopping yet. You can’t blame us – we’ve given you ten amazing lists of gift ideas over the past few weeks. From games to gadget ...
Whenever I hear about a card game about building, the first thing I think of is the Brady Bunch episode where the family builds a house of cards and their dog ends up knocking it over. It’s reminiscent for me, but that’s ne ...
