With Christmas quickly approaching, I wanted to point you to some fun, family things you can do this month that I’ve written about in the past. Enjoy! Christmas Eve Nativity Pageant Yes, we’ll be doing this again on Christmas Eve. Although we’re considering a variation for the first time ever. If they kids are interested, [...]
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Over the past many months I’ve share with you our all-time favorite toys. These aren’t sales pitches, they are (as always) my absolutely from-the-heart, honest opinions after 22+ years of mothering and 22+ years of buying toys — some that were hits and some that were a waste of money and space! Here’s a consolidated [...]
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I am under no illusion that I have to introduce anyone to Legos. But it’s impossible to write a “best toys” series without including them. So here is my obligatory “Legos are awesome” post. We started almost 22 years ago with our first set of giant, age-appropriate Duplo blocks. But because we had a toddler [...]
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When I was four-years-old, my neighbor friend, Chris Olsen, brought out the coolest thing I’d ever seen. It was a pair of wooden marble runs. You took a marble, put it at the top and watched it run down the little track about two feet, hit the end, turn the corner, and head down the [...]
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Last month I wrote about the amazing GeoTrax Railroad. Remember what I said about expandability. I’m not just talking about more tracks. Fisher-Price has done the add-on one better. Part of the GeoTrax family is the fabulous GeoAir! Picture a toy train in airplane form with a track that loops through the sky, to the [...]
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A few years ago one of our boys asked for the Fisher-Price Geotrax Rail and Road System Grand Central Station for Christmas. Although we’d never heard of it, we looked into it. We liked what we saw. GeoTrax is a battery-powered, remote-controlled railroad train system. It comes in a large set with the big Grand [...]
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In the early 1990′s—not long after moving to Florida—I was introduced to Playmobil when a friend gathered up her kids and invited me to bring mine to the Playmobil Fun Park in Palm Beach Gardens. For $1.00 each, your kids can spend hours and hours in 20,000 square feet of play area with literally tens [...]
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