Best Bibs Ever
I’m so excited. I finally found the bibs online that my kids have been using for almost 6 years. My mother-in-law bought these for us at Walmart, but I never knew the brand and I gave up searching for them online long ago. I thought they had been discontinued until tonight, when I stumbled across them online. Let me tell you, I LOVE these bibs. They have a big snap-up pocket that gapes open so when your babies or little ones are eating, it catches the food they drop. Sometimes they munch it out of the pocket later, or you can snap it open flat to wipe it up when they’re done. We wash these in the washing machine pretty often, and they are still in good shape after goin

Top 5 Kids’ Real Tool Sets
Two years ago, I wrote about a kids carpentry set that included real tools that could do real work. Judging from the number of readers who viewed that post, there are a lot of people out there this time of year looking for a kids tool set with real tools. If you’re one of those people, I’ve put together a list of the kids real tool sets that looked the best to me. A great gift to go with it would be this tool box kit from Home Depot ($9.97), for a first official “project” to do with mom or dad. This

Hello again.
I’ve been away for too long my friends. Plenty of posts planned for next week, including a few fun giveaways. In the meantime, I bought these boots today (half price at Last Chance) with some birthday money . As my dad would say, I’m now “37 friggin years old”. He says this on every birthday and anniversary, with a big stress on the “friggin”. It was a great birthday. A gorge

Give Thanks Necklace
This hand stamped “Give Thanks” necklace is a great reminder to be thankful for all that we have — all year long. This could be a thoughtful hostess gift, or a nice little present to give yourself. $20 at

Make your own pumpkin puree
If you find yourself taking care of sick kids, and have an extra “pie pumpkin” (also called sugar pumpkin) on hand, then maybe you’d like to make a little homemade pumpkin puree while the kids are vegging out on the couch and watching Baby Einstein videos. Yes, I piled up the Baby Einsteins on the counter to return them, but my son rediscovered them and wants to watch them all. Maybe it’s his fever that makes them more interesting than they really are. Anyway, yesterday (sick kid day #1), I carved a jack-o-lantern, roasted the seeds, and baked the pie pumpkin. I know. It was the day after Halloween, but better late than never. I remembered reading about mak