Author: Jill Berry

Seizing family time one dinner...game night...movie at a time.

Volleyball tournament: Part 1

Crafty Daughter on the court It’s 8:11 p.m. and Coach Dad is due any minute with our two girls. Crafty Daughter had a volleyball tournament about 1.5 hours from home. She has a tournament about 3 weekends a month. Yep,…

Focus Friday/Friday Fitness

Focus Friday Putting away last of Christmas decorations. Still have It’s a Wonderful Life village and Charlie Brown’s Christmas set out, as well as assorted other items. Need to rearrange basement storage room to accommodate other all of the Christmas…

Musings on Thursday Nights

Thursday nights are rushed…and that’s an understatement. Kids get home from school at 2:50 and 3:20. The homework/snack/tantrum for 5-year-old/”can I play wii”/”why can’t I play wii”/”what shall I make for dinner”/”why didn’t I start dinner earlier”/”put your swimsuit on”/”we…

HARO — Funerals Update

A couple of days ago I posted about how excited I was to participate in various HAROs. For the uninitiated a HARO is a Help a Reporter Out call from a website run by Peter Shankman. I get e-mails about…

KidiJamz

The box was huge! I placed a can of lemonade beside it to show the size. A week of two before Christmas I was sent the KidiJamz keyboard by a nice person at V-tech. I am embarrassed to say that…