If I’m looking for a unique gift item, Novica is always the first place that comes to mind. With its worldwide marketplace of handcrafted items, there are gifts for mom, gifts for him, and even fair trade corporate gifts. The Gift Finder section has helpful breakdowns by price and category to help you find just [...]

Do you love Pampered Chef? Because I loooooove Pampered Chef! The proof is in my kitchen where you’ll find everything from stoneware molds to spatulas to measuring spoons to cookbooks. And now, you’ll even find the most incredible mixing bowl set that I’ve ever owned. The nested bowls are made of brushed stainless steel with [...]

My brain is like a sieve with trivia. It absolutely does not stick. So it really doesn’t make sense that I am partial to trivia games, but I am. I love them, especially when you only need two players to play.Wise Alec is a really entertaining family trivia game for 2 or more players, and [...]

Laser tag meets remote control vehicle with the new Battle Machines from Jada Toys! The super cool vehicles fire laser beams while on the move! Blasting your opponent once or twice stops them in their tracks with loud explosion sounds. A third shot takes them out completely. Pure awesome. My Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang [...]

Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles! I love doing puzzles! I really like having a jigsaw puzzle sitting out on a table for everyone in the family to work on. Whenever someone gets the urge, they can just plop down and start fitting puzzle pieces together. Right now I’m working on one with 1000 pieces called Courting Peacocks [...]

Are you full of baloney? Do you like to doodle? Excellent! Then you’ll absolutely love the game Yamodo! Party Time. Each round begins with a made-up word and theme. Players doodle their idea of what the word looks like and jot down a definition. But hurry! It has to be finished and turned into the [...]

When my daughter was little, I used to make my own version of recordable storybooks. Mine were on cassette, and I said, “ding!” when it was time to turn the page. It certainly wasn’t professional, but it made her happy to hear Mommy’s voice. Now Hallmark has recordable storybooks, and they are SO easy to [...]

I stink at math. My kids stink at math. We are math stinkers. Thank heavens for calculators, right? How would anyone get their math homework done without one? When my kids entered high school I bought each of them a graphing calculator from Texas Instruments as recommended by the teachers. I wasn’t happy about it [...]