For my husband’s birthday dinner, my parents offered to take our family out to Filomena, a Georgetown institution. We readily agreed. It’s funny how you can live in a city for years and think you know every landmark, museum, restaurant,…
Author: Jill Berry
Seizing family time one dinner...game night...movie at a time.
Holiday Gift Guide (& Giveaway): Battle of Giants — Dinosaurs Strike!
Dinosaurs are cool. Whether you are 2 or 72, the thought of dinosaurs walking the earth is fascinating. Over the years we have read books about dinosaurs…watched movies…taken the kids to the Maryland Science Center. One kid always picked the…
Family Game Night: Spending Time Together
Our family plays games. Not all the time. We’re busy with school, work, homework, sports, and music practice. When we get a chance to play games, it’s good family time. One of the themes of this blog AND our family…
Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Hasbro Helps You Plan Family Game Night
As you know game night is a big deal in our house. When we are not doing homework, chores, practicing instruments, playing sports, or any of the other activities that fill our calendar. We are playing games as a family.…
Yoplait Lids Save Lives
A Note from my pals at MyBlogSpark and MyGetTogether… October may be over but you can still help support the breast cancer cause through Yoplait Save Lids to Save Lives until the end of the year. For every pink lid…
Wordful and Wordless Wednesday: Laundry Free
The photo above shows the rare moment of complete laundry nirvana. This moment occurs on extremely rare occasions. Almost never. Struggling to think of any other time it has happened. Thinking. Thinking… Do you know I don’t think I have…
In My House I Am Typhoid Mary…Are You?
I’m not a carrier for disease. I haven’t had the plague. I stay healthy year round. But, I can make a computer sick in minutes. Seriously. I know just enough about computers to do the following: send an e-mail tweet…
Holiday Gift Guide: Mythbusters’ Science of Sports
With two older sisters, my son is always intrigued by the Science Fair projects that the girls choose to do. From the time he was barely walking he has wanted to do whatever it was that they were doing. He…
My Giveaway Tips
Some months I am all about the giveaways. Other months it is like crickets chirping around this blog. My guidelines about hosting giveaways. I’m still learning how to do them effectively. Write about about the item you are giving away.…
Representing DC and Baltimore Moms
I straddle two markets. What started as an inconsistency when I answered the question “where do you live?” with “D.C.” or “Baltimore” or “D.C./Baltimore,” has turned in to a passion to be a part of both markets. See wishy-washy-ness pays…
