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Still Reading the Toy Catalogs

My teenagers no longer really play with toys. Unless you count the balls, tennis rackets and sporting equipment which still take up a prime spot near our front and back door entries. Still, I think it is fun when the toy catalogs start to arrive this time of year–both in the mail and tucked between the folds of our local newspaper–my kids get excited to flip through and see what’s out there. Offering critique and opinion, as well as a healthy dose of reminiscing about toys and holidays past. Sure, there is a certain amount of “I never got that … Continue reading →

Coming Together Around the Parade

The other day I wrote about how my teenagers still love to peruse the toy catalogs that come in the mail and the newspaper during this time of year, as the sun comes out on this frosty Thanksgiving morning and starts to melt away all the frost and ice, my kids and I have flipped on the television to rally around the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. This is one of those few bonding traditions that has somehow survived the years and changes and we can still manage to agree on the parade for a few hours on Thanksgiving Day. Traditions … Continue reading →

Can I Use the Holiday Phone Message Again Yet?

For years, I would spend a month each Fall coming up with a clever and original answering machine message to put on our voice mail for the holiday season. It often had music or singing and when they were younger, my kids were eager and active participants in our clever messages. A few years ago, however, those messages became outlawed. My teenagers did an intervention with me and shared how embarrassed they were and how horrifying my rhyming and whimsical holiday phone messages were. For the good of the order, they had to go. Now that my teenagers are older … Continue reading →

Playing Computer and Video Games Together

My daughters have been teaching me how to play SIMS 2 on the computer. We had a dreadfully wet and rainy weekend this past weekend–nonstop downpours with dark clouds and blustery leaves. No one wanted to go outside even to get a jug of milk. So once we’d watched all the movies, my almost-eighteen-year-old got out the computer games and the three of us built our homes and families and I struggled along to learn how to play. By all practical standards, we might all three be considered “too old” for such activities. I have certainly never been one to … Continue reading →

Save Time and Money: Frugal Storage Tips For Your Child

I learned a terribly useful trick, from all my research in organization. Make it EASIER to put away items and HARDER to get them out. I promise, it works! Keep this in mind as you are organizing your child’s room. Think about storage placement in regards to ease of putting it away. If it’s easy to put away, a child is more apt to do it. Consider that you need to start from the bottom of the room and work your way up. Children are smaller than us big adults, so storing on a closet shelf that they cannot reach … Continue reading →