We recently got to check out the Leap Builders Food Fun Family Farm set, and had lots of family fun at the farm. Read More
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An Evolution in Building From LeapFrog
Carols for a Cure
There are two genres of music that I love beyond all others: Broadway show tunes, and Christmas music. Read More
What to Do? Just Grab on to ‘Munchkin: Disney Duck Tales’ (A Woo Woo)
Since the early 2000s, Steve Jackson games have been entertaining us with ‘Munchkin’ and its various offspring, and just when you think there’s nothing else to expand with, well here come race cars, lasers, aero-planes. Read More
Look Out For Fun: The Paw Patrol Mighty Lookout Tower
It is the question that parents have asked since the dawn of plastic toys. Do you let the kids unwrap the factory sealed box on Christmas morning, or do you assemble the toy before you wrap it, for immediate play. I myself have always favored the sealed box option. As a kid, there’s just something… Read More
The 12 Days of Thanksgiving: A Survival Checklist
If you need some games to play, or jokes to tell on Thanksgiving day…if you are in need of something to point the conversation away from politics, we’ve got you covered. Read More
A Thanksgiving Reading List
Before we transition to full-blown winter next Friday, we are taking a deep breath and enjoying some turkey time. Read More
Family Games for the Holidays: ‘Home Alone’
During October and November, we will be reviewing a selection of new games ideal for families during the holiday season. Today’s pick is ‘Home Alone.’ Read More
The Advent of Advent
While my Christmas music has been playing since September, and I am generally the exception not the rule, it is not too early to start thinking about Advent. Read More
Online Thanksgiving Adventures With “Bon Appetit”
My husband and my seven year old have a comfortable routine that they dip in and out of. In the wee small hours of the morning, they snuggle up on our couch, before the rest of the house is awake, and watch videos on the iPhone. For the longest time it was ‘Good Mythical Morning’; these days it’s cooking shows. Specifically, the Thanksgiving cooking shows put out by ‘Bon Appetit’ magazine, across their varied line of video series. Read More
I’d Rather Be a Toys “R” Us Kid
Toys “R” Us is gone, but the memories of those of us who grew up with it live on. Read More
Essential ‘Toy Story’ Play Time
One of the things that all three of my children agree on, at ages four, seven, and ten, is that the ‘Toy Story’ movies are all awesome. Read More
Nineteen Years and Counting
Nineteen years ago, Commander William M. (Bill) Shepherd of NASA and cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko of Roscosmos arrived at the International Space Station. Read More
An Impromptu Un-parented Game Day
Recently we had an unplanned, and unprepared for, day at home. While Dad cleaned the kitchen and I worked on a project, what would the munchkins get up to on their own? Read More
A Literary Obsession: Europa Editions
Here was a whole new world I had never been exposed to before. Sarah discovered a world of fiction translated into English, thanks to Europa Editions. Read More
To Buy or to Borrow: The Reader’s Dilemma
Sarah shares her logic in whether to buy or borrow books. Read More
A Picard Primer: Returning to the 24th Century
GeekMom Sarah is one of our resident ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ experts; she gives us the viewing guide to prepare for January’s premiere of ‘Picard.’ Read More
Waiting for Hogwarts
Every September as the leaves start to fall, out comes the Harry Potter box set for the next installment of the movie. This year saw the arrival of Dolores Umbridge and Bellatrix Lestrange in the Pinault house. Read More
A Literary Obsession: School Book Fairs
Scholastic sells 55 million books to 70 million children and their families at more than 120,000 fairs in schools around the world. As well as encouraging early literacy, as a parent volunteer they also feed my addiction to some day owning my own bookstore! Read More
A Shortcut to Mushrooms
If you are looking for a new diversion, simply looking for your next good read, or if you need to hone your hunter gatherer skills for the next time a wizard shows up on your doorstep in the middle of the night, you will not be disappointed with the Norewegian Mycological adventures of Long Lit Woon. Read More
Fairy Tales Re-Written: Enter ‘The Hazel Wood’
The debut novel by Melissa Albert, ‘The Hazel Wood,’ offers a fresh take on fairy tales and a delightfully Burtonesque new universe to explore. A YA mystery/fairy tale/buddy story set somewhat in the wilds of upstate New York, be sure to enter the Hazel Wood soon. Read More
