This weekend we went to a birthday party for a friend’s kid, another elementary schooler, and they had the best birthday party favors ever, which I am totally copying for my kids’ next birthdays. Instead of bags full of little plastic toys that invariably get stepped on or break in a day, or candy that…
Bomb threat at one of our local schools today and 15 schools in our state. Very scary and hard to know what to say to our kids. My friend shared this great resource from fredrogers.org so I wanted to pass it along: http://www.fredrogers.org/parents/special-challenges/tragic-events.php There’s a short video of Mr. Rogers and some tips as well,…
Tea Collection has finally put out what are likely to be its last round of markdowns on their fall/winter destination line, Argentina & Bolivia. Prices are excellent if you know what to focus on – a fair number of pieces starting at $7 ($7! For Tea!), and over 200 styles at $15 or below (with some…
This morning my kids really wanted to build a snowman, only it’s raining and we have no snow. So we got out our crafty sides and did a snowman art activity instead – making textured snowmen pictures out of random items from around the house. We also decided that we were going to eat all…
If you need help feeding your family or know folks who do, or if you want to volunteer to help others get food, I just learned about a neat organization, Food Link MA. I was at my local library recently and saw a great display of food resources, so I reached out to the organization…
Move quickly, Hanna Andersson fans! Clearance children’s clothing and accessories are $10 each in stores for today only. They have some things for $10 online and $15 dresses, which is still good, but if you go into a store it will be $10! If you read my blog you know that Hanna Andersson is one of the…
Last month, I wrote about participating in the Hour of Code at my daughter’s school and mentioned that I had ordered a highly recommended board game to teach kids the basics of coding, called Robot Turtles. I promised I’d come back and review it, so here we are: my review of Robot Turtles (short answer: we…
“This is the behind the scenes story of the how the team at Cyrus Innovation came to build Just Not Sorry, a plug in for Gmail that highlights you when you type “just” “sorry” and a few other undermining words. . ..” Source: Just Not Sorry! (the backstory) — Cyrusite Chatter An Evaluation of Just…
“Tami Reiss has a New Year’s resolution, and Gmail will help her keep it. With her company’s new Chrome browser extension, Reiss has put a bull’s-eye on the on the tempering words and phrases—just, I think, sorry—that clutter up her emails, undermine her authority, and dilute her leadership capacity.” Source: New Chrome App Helps Women Stop…
Inexpensive and easy do-it-yourself ribbon headbands for toddlers and kids! My youngest loves headbands and always has to be wearing one, so my kindergartner decided that the best holiday present would be to make her a new headband. I was skeptical but it turned out that it was really easy (and cheap) to make a…
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