Adventures In Parenting
Parenting is one of the crazy joys in life.
“Parenting without a sense of humor is like being an accountant who stinks at math.” — Amber Dusick
The Yeti, the Frog Togg Chilly Pad, Harry Potter Illustrated Edition, and the Sony RX10 II
I know...I talk about a lot of things on Ballcapmom.com, but I always have some that I just need to do a special post about. Here is a list of 4 things I love right now. They are some of my favorites (some I've blogged about, and some I haven't...yet)! They are the...
Even Jimmy Fallon is Playing Pokémon GO!
Pokémon GO! A crazy little game that is taking over the world! Pokémon GO? Really? Didn't Pokémon fall off the "cool list" a few years ago? Well guess what...it's right back at the top now with their new app called Pokémon GO. My son is playing it, my nephews...
Unlocking the Greatness of Minecraft
Minecraft! That's all I heard about for 6 months when my son, Zach was in Kindergarten. After 6 months of non-stop chatter about wanting (and needing) Minecraft, my husband and I finally gave in and downloaded it for him on my desktop computer. We did some research...
Building Sand Castles… An Activity I Happily Pass On To Daddy…
Sand castles! Always one of our favorite activities when we come to the beach. Or is it? We always have this romantic idea of all sitting together in the sand building a giant sand castle - with towers, and walls, and seashells decorating the entrance to the...
Tinker Crates…A Toy for the Young Scientist in Your House!
So...an advertisement for Tinker Crates kept coming through my Facebook feed asking whether or not I had a young scientist in my house, and I would just look at it briefly, think "How cool," and scroll right on past it. One day, there was a video that started playing...
My Favorite “Purse Camera” – – The Small & Perfectly Compact Olympus OM-D E-M5 II
For many years, I nagged my husband again and again saying I needed what I called a "purse camera." I LOVE my Canon 5D-Mark III, but there are times when so much is going on, that I wish that I had a small camera that would just fit into my pocket (or my purse)....
Trappy, Our Venus Fly Trap! Visions of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ in my Kitchen!!
So I was at Market Street last week, and as I passed the floral section, a little container that said "Venus Fly Trap" caught my eye! What? A Venus Fly Trap! How cool! Right? Wrong... My kids were thrilled when they came home from school and found this cute...
Kickin’ It Old School at Spinster Records
Nothing sounds quite like an old record playing on a record player! Right?? It's seems a little crazy that most of us sold our record players a long time ago to "upgrade" to a cassette player. Looking back on my decision to follow in the footsteps of everyone else,...
Time for Kids and Some Great Inventions…
One of the many things I enjoyed about teaching 4th graders was all the fun and exciting things I got to read with them. One of my favorites was our Time for Kids magazine. It was a small magazine about current events and news stories geared towards children with a...
Geocaching? What in the World is Geocaching?
Geocaching? Really? My son came to me the other day and asked me if I knew what Geocaching was. Geocaching. Hmmm...what is Geocaching? I wanted to sound cool, so I sort of answered him based on what my sister had told me many years ago about her experiences...