In May, I was lucky enough to win a WebkinzJr teddy bear, and we instantly fell in love with the soft, cuddly fella.  I was even more excited that this new line of Webkinz – aimed at kids 3 to 6 years old – has a fun, colorful, intuitive site where my toddler can play [...]

Have you seen the commercials for Moon Dough?  The ones in which children excitedly (and repeatedly) exclaim that the “Magical Molding Dough” Never! Dries! Out!?  Apparently my kids have, because when I received the Moon Dough Barn playset as part of the review panel for Team Mom, they instantly started telling me about the molding dough’s soft, [...]

I was introduced to Protect-A-Bed earlier this year when I spotlighted “National Napping Day” and gave away one of their premium queen size mattress protectors.  I was able to receive my own Queen Size Protect-A-Bed Premium Mattress Cover and have been more than happy with the quality of the product since.  It’s built strong and [...]

Nanny McPhee Returns is the second film adapted by Emma Thompson from the Nurse Matilda books.  Though it opens today in theatres throughout US and Canada, my sons and I were able to attend an advanced screening last night, compliments of Universal Pictures. The setting is many years after the first Nanny McPhee movie, though [...]

Back to School season is really more of a marathon than a sprint.  Even if school has already started for you, chances are you’re still collecting items from the teacher’s wish-list, or tracking down supplies you couldn’t find on your first (or second, or third) time out. I’ve always thought the STAPLES: that was easy [...]

Though August in Houston is more brutally hot than anywhere else I’ve lived, it’s also time for my daughter’s marching band to begin their drills.  For as many as 12 hours a day she and more than 250 bandmates alternate between workshops inside and rehearsals outside, always keeping an eye on their water intake and [...]

My youngest son is almost 3 and is a bona fide Distracted Eater.  He has the hardest time sitting still for any meal, and in fact prefers to graze from his plate as he does laps around the dining table or pretends to be an airplane in flight.  I never put much stock into buying [...]

Aurora World Inc, a leading manufacturer of high quality, affordable plush products (like the successful YooHoo & Friends line) has just introduced a new line of plush toys:  Milly, the Pinkest Kitten. Milly comes in 10 variations, as either a free-standing plush, in dress-up (where Milly is either a “Wanna Be” Princess, Ballerina, or Fairy), or [...]

When Meagan Francis (of TheHappiestMom.com and more) put out the call on Twitter to any BlogHer attendees who might also be Broadway and Stephen Sondheim fans, it took me approximately 2.2 seconds to respond with a ME!ME!ME!  There was no reasonable way to hide my excitement at what she might have up her sleeve, and when [...]

I’ve watched the buzz around Scholastic’s middle-reader book series The 39 Clues for a long while now.  My kids and I would see the books come out in sequence at the store or library, and agree out loud that some day we wanted to read them.  Now, just as the 10th and final book is [...]