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  • All Packed Up and Ready to Go

    You've bought all the gifts--the budget is spent. Everything is wrapped. The laundry is done and the car is packed for the drive to wherever. It could be just across town to Grandma's or it could be across country to Aunt Susie's (does anyone have an Aunt Susie?). The kids are hyper--after all it is Christmas (or whatever holiday you are celebrating). How on earth are you going to survive the car ride, the train ride, the wait in the airport? Maybe you should just go back to bed... Luckily...
  • Zoobies--stuffed animal, pillow & blanket

    I am not one to recommend plush toys. Once a child has one or two stuffed animals they love--do they really need any more? My daughter who is eleven has a huge basket full of stuffed animals that she hasn't touched for years. But am I allowed to throw them out, give them away..no no no. So if I am recommending a plush toy--you know it has to be good. First of all the texture is wonderful. Second, the stuffed animal becomes a pillow. Then to make it even better, the stuff animal becomes a blanket...
  • Bananagrams

    Do you find that sometimes the food comes just a little too slowly at restaurants. As the kids get older, the paper place mats are just not doing the trick. I find we end up playing endless games of "I Spy", if the restaurant and things handing on the wall or "Hangman", if I was wise and remembered paper. Here is a new choice for restaurants or any time you need to occupy the kids--like waiting in the airport. Just grab the pouch and go. You do remember to pack it : ) Bananagrams...
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