Craft time has always been a fun time in our house. While I am not and have never been the mom who gets down on the floor to play with dolls or cars, I love doing crafts with the kids.…
Category: Preschoolers
Holiday Gift Guide: New from Littlest Pet Shop…Fairies! #holidaygiftguide #toys [#Giveaway ends 12/20]
My daughter squealed with delight. She was opening her birthday gifts. I could see her face light up. She couldn’t contain her excitement. One of her best friends had given her the perfect gift. What was the gift? The gift…
The 2012 Musings from Me Holiday Gift Guide #holidaygiftguide #giftguide
My 2012 Musings from Me Holiday Gift Guide is in full swing. With each year, I get more organized. At some point I will figure out how to get all the posts on the same page, but until putting the…
Holiday Gift Guide: Capturing Travels, Adventures, and Moments on DVDs with @YesVideo #yesmemory #holidaygiftguide
Here’s some facts about the Musings from Me family’s love of recording our travels, adventures, and moments: My kids range in age from 16 to 9. My husband records EVERYTHING from the first steps, to playing outside on the swingset,…
Holiday Gift Guide: Get Your Dance on with Just Dance 4 #holidaygiftguide #ubisoft
I’m always on the lookout for a game we can play as a family. With two teens, a kid, a mom and dad, we practically have to schedule family time. I look back fondly to the days when we were…
Holiday Gift Guide: Gamers Transform with new Transformers Prime for Wii, WiiU, 3DS, and DS #transformers #holidaygiftguide
I’m not what you would call a watcher of action/adventure movies. My dad is all about movies with fast-paced car chases while my mother is all about movies where nothing happens. My husband likes movies with action, and so do…
Holiday Gift Guide: Classic Family Kids’ Card Games with a Farmville Twist #holidaygiftguide #toys [#Giveaway ends 12/20]
When my oldest was three or four, I bought a Memory game. The Memory cards were simple. The images on the cards were pictures of animals, fruit, recognizable household objects, and toys. We played that game so many times. She…
Do You Manage the Family Schedule or Does It Manage You? #goodnesstogo
My friend looking at all the papers tacked to my bulletin board said: “Your bulletin board is making me stressed out!’ Me: “Right!?” My friend: “How do you keep track of everything you have going on?” Me: [silence and a…
Holiday Gift Guide: Disney’s Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two for Kinect #seizingfamilytime
Have I mentioned that I am not a gamer? I’m the one who plays Ms. PacMan once a year and calls it a day. My kids are a different story. A million years — or so it seems — I…
Holiday Gift Guide: Games, Game Systems, Apps, and RC Toys
Do you ever feel that you are constantly outfoxed, outmatched, outwitted, and outplayed by your kids? The rolling of the eyes. The “Uh, Mom I already knew that.” Or the “everyone has known that for months.” Yep, I’m not exactly…