Zoe is our second born and, as it stands right now, the baby.  She’s nearly 2 years old and, well, I’m just going to say it…I have the hardest time connecting with her.  It’s not the age that makes it so hard for me to connect with her, as it has been this way since [...]

With all of my favorite characters from childhood getting “updated looks”, I’m starting to get a complex!  Maybe I should be getting a makeover, too!!! It looks as though Rainbow Brite is the latest to receive her makeover and taker her place in the hearts of the next generation. The “new” look for Rainbow Brite [...]

It’s one of the best moments as a parent — hearing your child’s first word!  Especially if it is some version of “mom”!  We spend so much of their first year or so trying to get them to say words, words that we can understand, words that make us proud.  Then we spend the next [...]

Last fall I told you about the release of the Iron Man Armored Adventures Volume 1 dvd and now I’m back with Volume 2!!! The Iron Man Armored Adventures dvds follow teen prodigy Tony Stark and his alter ego (and superhero) Iron Man.  Tony Stark/Iron Man isn’t like most super heros.  He’s not from another planet [...]

With the Winter Olympics starting in just over a week, I started wondering to myself “when did the parents of Olympic athletes realize they were raising an Olympian?”  Did they start training them at an early age and hoped for the best?  Or did they notice some special little spark in them from birth? Either [...]

I’m a list person.  I make lists for everything.  From packing to errands I need to run to cleaning my house — you name it, I have a list for it! The problem with my lists is that I don’t always get everything done on them.  So, I end up with multiple lists lying around [...]