Kevin Bacon: Bacon Bits. (I mean, duh. This is a no-brainer, like Geiss Cubes on 30 Rock. And having once had breakfast with The Bac, I know he’s a deep thinker.) Humpty Hump: I Once Got Busy in a Burger King Bathroom. (Sells itself.) Barack Obama: Barack The Boat: Paddleboating With POTUS (Is that a [...]
Structure, routine, expectations, follow through. All buzz words for how we are supposed to put our kids to bed at night. Because, no, you just don’t throw them in a darkened room and shut the door. And if you do, shhhhh.
I collect vintage children’s books. Not just one or two, but entire sets. I have collections full of perfect examples of the child-rearing practice of the time; finger wagging teach-you-a-lesson tales of what can happen when children don’t behave. I showcase these volumes front and center in the kid’s reading room downstairs. They’re fun to [...]
When you are newly pregnant for the first time, your OB-GYN will present to you with benevolent open arms, much like the Shroud of Turin, the pregnancy bible What to Expect When You’re Expecting. After receiving this book at our first preggers appointment, I would bet my twenty-five dollar tube of Clinique smokey-kohl eye liner that [...]
I loves me a top ten list. Except, I go to eleven, so there are eleven things on my list. Because sometimes you just need that extra push. Eleven is one louder. And I’m loud. BOY AM I LOUD. Like, no volume button really. It’s OFF or ON. Anywho, I compiled a list of things [...]
How many times have we heard people use the word ‘overrated’ to describe someone or something that is insanely popular – yet in their opinion doesn’t deserve to be? We usually associate this term with celebrities, movies, video games and books. After all, not everyone can always have a totally positive opinion of anyone or [...]
My daughter brought home this book today. Listen, I’m a big fan of anthropomorphism (the assigning of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects)–after all, as a Mom, I’m subjected to it every day on children’s TV. And while I’m certainly dying to know the secret thoughts of tools (“Handy Manny”), candy (“The Gummi Bears”), [...]
This envelope corner bookmark is great little craft to share with kids, because it takes about ten minutes and creates no mess, if you leave the olive oil out of it. If you make any envelope corner bookmarks, take a picture and share them with us!
I’m just gonna go right ahead and say it. I know it will mortally wound thousand of teenaged girls and forty-year-old women everywhere, but I need to get this out in the open. I don’t get vampires. I love to read. I enjoy fiction, classics, historical, non-fiction,chick-lit, Playboy (no! Really! Good articles!). You name it, [...]
I purchased the Kama Sutra when I was in my late teens, much like every horny, post-pubescent and pre-sex adult in the known world. It’s the tiniest copy of the Kama Sutra in the world; I wanted to check it out, but I didn’t want anyone to KNOW I was checking it out. I didn’t [...]
It happens every year. Once school ends, I have a small window of time where I don’t have anything to do. After months of reading books only to turn around write long, exploratory papers about them, I start to think about what books I want to read for fun. I have no idea where to [...]
I’m getting ready to do some big and not so big projects around my home. When we moved in two years ago the walls of our new home were neutral enough to be move-in ready. So that’s what we did – we moved our stuff in and tried to make things work as best as [...]
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