Discovery Exclusive Remote Control Moon In My Room We’ve given this toy as a gift to another child and to our own son, who just had to have one! This toy has an illuminated moon which shows all lunar phases, waxing and waning. It includes a remote control and an audio CD. The moon automatically [...]
The Christmas season is a wonderful time to find a church home if you don’t already have one. You can do better than showing up at Christmas and Easter. Find a church family that feels right and dive in! Get involved.
If you aren’t already reading books at bedtime, this is a great tradition to start. It’s great for your infants, toddlers, pre-readers, young readers, advanced readers, and tweens! Here are some great Christmas titles for the season: The Night Before Christmas: The Heirloom Edition Christmas in the Manger Board Book The Polar Express Gingerbread Friends [...]
If you are going to give gifts for grownups, give something consumable. Gifts to charities, gourmet foods, event tickets, are all great gifts for grownups. As an extended family, we’ve decided to forego gifts for the grownups this year. We have just about everything we want already, unless you count big ticket items. We have [...]
If you haven’t already, now is a great time to book your travel. The airlines are cutting rates now instead of waiting for their traditional cuts later in November. Lifehacker is running a poll of the best airfare travel site and Kayak.com is the run-away winner so far.
The Christmas season can be very busy. It’s just as important to schedule downtime as anything else. Plan a picnic, a playdate, a park day, a spa day with your daughter, a movie date with your son, or maybe just a trip out to Starbucks for a hot chocolate together. Forget about your activities, parties, [...]
Today, let’s take some time to check our progress. How are you doing with the first 50 days of preparation for Christmas? Do you know where you’re spending Christmas this year, or are you playing host/ess? Menu? Guests? Have you scheduled a family portrait sitting and selected/ordered Christmas cards? Are you handmaking gifts this year? [...]
Christmas can be a hectic, overscheduled time of year. One very easy way to keep your family healthy and sane is to have a simple family dinner together as often as possible. This is made even easier by cooking in a slow cooker or picking up a prepared rotisserie chicken from your local market or [...]
Christmas has traditionally been a great time for movie watching with the family. There are already a couple of movies out for the whole family, but Christmas will have some new releases for your viewing enjoyment. I took the kids to see High School Musical 3 on Friday, and I thought it was a really [...]
This is a novel but necessary concept for many people in this economic climate. Forced by circumstance (lay-off, bankruptcy, foreclosure, health problems, other catastrophes,) many Americans will be having a “Buy Nothing” Christmas, or at least a “Buy a WHOLE LOT LESS” Christmas this year. Even if you aren’t under tremendous economic pressure, there are [...]