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 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 13, 2016 | Photography, Toys
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...
May 17, 2016 | Random Thoughts, Toys
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...
May 1, 2016 | Random Thoughts, Toys
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...
