A little bit ago I wrote about a line of classic toys that piqued my interest. These toys don’t need batteries. Cables are not needed either. No charging cords. Just simple, plain, battery-free fun from these toys. The Best Pals…
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Simple Toys Are the Best #bestpals
Every so often I long for the days of basic. Simple. No power. No need for AA batteries. Just straight forward simple toys. Blocks. A doll house. Trains and cars. And of course, dolls. My husband and I don’t usually…
Holiday Gift Guide: Imaginative Play and The Costume Trunk [Review]
The costume box was THE best purchase of all time. More so than the Step2 Kitchen or the Lego sets or the Thomas the Tank Engine trains or the Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouse. Don’t get me wrong all of…
Who Had More Fun? Mom and Dad or the Kids? #Legoland
In true Musings from Me fashion, last year’s summer vacation was thrown together at the last minute. I knew I was going to BlogHer, but the details were very sketchy. At the beginning of July, all I had was a…
Bathroom Talk Is Now, O.K. #CloroxLounge
The grimace. You know the one that you make when your children says something about the bathroom or anything in the “toilet talk” range of conversation topics. You cringe. You take a sharp intake of breath. You pray that your…
Holiday Gift Guide: Tonka XT Ricochet Tricksters [Giveaway]
At a recent Monster Jams, show I was slack jawed at the way the drivers drove those enormous trucks over massive mounds of dirt, around precariously placed barricades, and on top of dirt structures the size of small homes. The…
Holiday Gift Guide: KRE-O Transformers Sentinel Prime Set [Giveaway]
The changing forms. The deep, radio announcer-like voice. The shape shifting from car to robot and robot to car. Until I saw the first Transformers movie, I truly did not “get” the whole Transformers robots thing. The TV show seemed…
Holiday Gift Guide: Lego Duplo Jams App
Music calms the savage beast…uh…I mean baby. If you have every sat in a car with a squalling crying baby for a long trip you will feel my pain. As the navigator-not-the-driver-on-family-trips, I am the designated hitter with any crises…
Holiday Gift Guide: Blok Squad Construction Site
When my son was born, my oldest was finishing up 1st grade while my youngest was finishing up her last year of preschool. As the school year began for both girls the following August, my son and I were left…
Holiday Gift Guide: Lego Pirates of the Carribean [Giveaway]
As a kid, I played Lego all the time. I remember creating an entire town of buildings, schools, offices, a zoo, a hospital, and even a police station. I played with this Lego “town” for years and years. It was…
