There’s a new LEGO game in town, and it’s Play-Well. Which my kiddo Mitch immediately picked up on as the Danish origin for the name LEGO, Leg Godt. Play-Well teaches kids STEM skills through the fun of building with LEGO. They’ve just starting to branch out to St. Louis with winter break camps and birthday …
Just for Mom
My kid keeps drawing cartoons for you, and I actually went out and bought a new scanner just so I can keep up with him. We’re loving his stick man drawings so much, we’re thinking of making it his costume for Halloween this year! So just remember the source–this kid is 9. We’re working on …
National Coffee Day is September 29 and I’ve got something awesome for you! I’ve been working on a quick & easy Pumpkin Spice Latte that you can whip up in your kitchen. Enjoy coffee house flavors while you’re still in your PJs. The best part? All it takes is coffee plus 3 ingredients–one you already …
You’ve waded through the back to school aisle, bought countless pencils, notebooks and glue sticks; purchased an entire new wardrobe for each kid and started pleading with them to get to bed before midnight. Yes! You are officially ready for the first day of school! Or are you?
Did you know the blues are the bedrock of all really good American music? Yep. I never occurred to me that someone whaling on a harmonica a hundred years ago could led to ZZ Top and Adele on my iPod, but it did. Wanna guess where I pick up THAT bit of trivia? Psst. Lemme tell you something before you …
Last night I bribed my teen to play with his little brother. “I’ll give you 2 bucks,” I texted to him. “And a cookie.” My kids are 8 and half years apart, a vast difference that’s both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, its way easier to raise a second child when the …
Last night I was pretty excited about my blog. I got home from a blogger social at the Thaxton, a swanky establishment so cool you literally need to know the secret password to get in. I met with awesome local businesses, talked a little shop and brought home a swag bag stuffed full of goodies. The …
I love to go thrift shopping at Goodwill–bargain hunting for a good cause? Sign me up! Besides, I’m way too lazy to have a yard sale,so whenever our closets start to overflow we put together a Goodwill bag and send our gently used items off to find a new home. There’s a MERS/Goodwill a few miles from …