Road Rippers Brings Back a Classic The thrill of the road. The need for speed. Taking control. All these phrases apply to race car drivers and RC drivers alike. Vroom! Are your children like mine? Do they love gaining control…
Category: Musings on Entertainment
A Love of Books…Starts Early… [Five + Five Road to Literacy Test Drive]
Books! We’re a book family through and through. I read to my kids from the time we arrived home from the hospital with each of them. I didn’t read to them in utero. My husband would grab a stack of…
Celebrating Spring…First Communions, Graduations, Weddings…
Rite of passage. Tradition. Celebration. Sacred. All of these words embody what First Communion means to me and my family. My First Communion — like the celebrations for my two daughters — took place on a warm spring day at…
Family Time at Top Golf [Review]
Long-time readers of this blog…and by “long time” I mean anyone who has been reading for a year or so…know I post about this and that and the other. Part review. Part giveaway. Part travel. Part parenting post. While my…
What a Zoo…and Concert Dates…
Last year I was contacted by the PR for a hip young singer of kid songs. I was at first skeptical since my experience with kid singers and their songs was of the treacly, saccharine variety. My avoidance of singers…
Soaking in the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel
Fabulous. Amazing. Wonderful. All of these words are overused , but they aptly describe our family’s stay at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando. I will even add “Awesome” to the mix! Our hotel stay was an experience from…
Grand Theft Childhood: Bakugan [Giveaway] [Closed]
A few months ago I was invited to an event in DC. Work commitments prevented me from getting to the event. The event — Grand Theft Childhood with Dr. Cheryl Olson — focused on a topic near and dear to…
Sweatin’ to the Newbies [Review]
I’m not a fan of sweat. I don’t like exercising, but then who does? No, don’t answer that if you lurve exercising and can’t get enough of it. We can remain friends even if you are an exercise fiend. We’ll…
The English Major in Me Wants to See Gnomeo & Juliet [Giveaway] [Closed]
A few months ago we saw Tangled. We missed the official screening due to traffic. You would think after living in the D.C. area for over 20 years that I would check traffic BEFORE driving to an event AFTER learning…
I Play Chef for My Kids
It should come as no surprise to people who know me that I put things off. My procrastinaton genes run deep. Very deep. In the fall I said I would do roundup posts for all the articles I have written…
