I’m known to do it. And I do it often. When there is a certain something that must be done — gutters that need cleaning, a long drive that needs, um, driving — I execute. It doesn’t matter that I haven’t the strength or the stamina, my body gives it […]
Admittedly, I haven’t kept tabs on the product line since its controversial launch last year. Oh, I’ve spied them on toy store shelves, usually picked over and practically empty toy store shelves, meaning that folks out there are digging ’em, but I have no idea how the Lego Friends collection […]
Years ago, when our Skylanders kids were nothing more than a distant twinkle in our hopefully, young-adult eyes, I cooked a dinner for friends, with a printed menu and everything! It was a tasting menu, because I was watching too much Food Network and was prone to trying hard, with […]
The great Melissa & Doug are feeling uber merry these days. Yesterday, they voted to give away one goodie from their spiffy Terrific Twenty toy list, per day, via their official M&D Facebook page. Niiiice. You should enter. What’s even sweeter is that OWTK is going to be able to […]
Facing internal conflict isn’t at all a bad thing. Without confronting situations, people, and ideas that differ from our own, we end of living a sort of hypothetical existence — unchallenged and untested. Over the years, my ideals and beliefs have been tweaked by my travels, my interactions with others, […]
If you were baking an OWTK cake, the recipe card would feature some pretty obvious ingredients. Obvious, of course, if you’ve been reading my reviews and articles over the years. And if you have, thank you! For the newbs, know that we value products created with, and that inspire in […]
If your kid loves themselves the Polly Pockets, but you cringe when they ask (and don’t they always ask?!) for your help squeezing on those teensy-weensy plastic clothes, Waverly & The Magic Seashells is a brand new toy line that you’re gonna want to buy (or win; see below!) for […]
Yeah, I know, they are technically called Sidekicks, but c’mon, any Skylanders fanatic who also happens to be a young girl is going to instantly turn these pint-sized Sidekicks into a brand new mommy/baby game within minutes. Well, maybe not every girl, but my pair had mommy Stealth Elf and […]
