Jul 8, 2016 | Random Thoughts, Toys
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...
Jul 5, 2016 | Random Thoughts, Toys
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...
Jun 24, 2016 | Books, Random Thoughts
Amazon’s brick and mortar store!?? Yes please…I’ll take one right here in Allen! And soon – before my kids are all grown and don’t want to go to the bookstore with me anymore! When I was growing up in Dallas, one of the things I did...
Jun 17, 2016 | Random Thoughts, Toys
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...
Jun 8, 2016 | Random Thoughts
Okay…we just completed our first lemonade stand of this summer. It was a huge success! Well…by huge, I mean the kids are all taking away a few bucks. Me, however, well…I’m out quite a bit of money. Lemonade stands when I was a child (a...
Jun 2, 2016 | Random Thoughts, Slider
There were many wonderful adventures we had while we were visiting San Diego, but one of my favorites was The Barlin-Kahn Family Panda Trek at the San Diego Zoo. I’d always heard about the San Diego Zoo panda bears but had never been before. Like most of the...
