Author: Jill Berry

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

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…

Dear Clothing Manufacturer

Example of “fugly” shirt. Why all those circles? Why brown, beige, and orange? Dear Clothing Manufactuers: I’m not happy with the size and style of clothing that I need to wear. Three pregnancies and a largely nonexistent willpower have left…

Fill in the Blank Wednesday

Mom on the Run Hits the Slopes New Years’ Eve…I swear the children only drank sparkling cider, so why then does my son look tipsy? My son teaches his godmother how to play Mariocart…both had great fun! My favorite Christmas…

Snuggie Update

At dinner last night my children and I started talking about the Snuggie. Well, actually I was still laughing about an earlier discussion and the conversation continued. We got to talking about other uses of the Snuggie: – Snuggie with…

Snuggie: Blanket, Dress, Robe?

You must have heard of the Snuggie…you know those commercials on TV for the blanket with sleeves? The blanket you can wear in your living room, or at the football game, or around a campfire while roasting marshmallows. I chuckled…

Dental Floss or Thread

What items around my house have different purposes. Let’s go on a scavenger hunt…. Dental Floss — We went skiing MLK weekend and my daughter was asking me why the bag for our boots had green thread on the zipper.…