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I agreed to review The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz with some trepidation. I had loved the content of The Dangerous Book for Boys, but really disliked the title, as I didn’t think it should have been published as a […]

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When I saw the email asking for reviewers for Parent Bloggers Network members for JumpStart World, I was intrigued. When I opened the email, this phrase jumped out at me: “it’s like World of Warcraft for kids, and educational”! As soon as I saw that, I was hooked. My older daughters have […]

Our family has special dietary needs - no gluten, no dairy, and no berries. This means that a lot of our dessert ingredients are different from others. It doesn’t mean that they taste any worse, though! We have a family favorite called “Better than Brownies” because, well, they are better than regular […]

I have spent far too much money over the years on dog (and cat) toys that were either never played with or played with once and then forgotten. In the past few years I have become very cynical about dog toys, thinking that the vast majority of them were simply made for suckers who wanted […]

Whenever I shop online, I try to use Coupons so that I don’t pay as much for my items. However, sometimes coupon sites can be difficult to negotiate or don’t have a large number of merchants. In either case, I end up having to go to several coupon sites before I can find […]

This book was sent to me by the publisher for review.
Piece of Work is the newest novel by Laura Zigman - funny, heartwarming, and real. If you haven’t already read Animal Husbandry, Dating Big Bird, and Her, go do so now. Buy all 4 novels - they look wonderful together in a […]

I love having blogger business cards - it makes it so much easier when you meet someone at a blogger meet-up, or even when you meet someone at the park or library! It’s so much handier to have a card than to need to go search for a piece of paper and a pen!
There are […]

I agreed to have our family be a tester through Mom Central for Squid Soap, a product by Airborne. I had seen it in the store, and thought the idea was cool, so I was happy to be able to test it out.
This has got to be one of the cutest ideas ever for getting […]

How to Sleep with a Movie Star, by Kristin Harmel, is a great novel about journalism, celebrities, romance, and jealousy. I first found Kristen’s work when I read her fabulous essay in Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume, but her name was misspelled as “Kristin Karmel”, […]