Thank you to Pop TV for sponsoring this post so I could scoop all of you on the fantastic Hollywood Darlings show! All opinions are 100% my own. Any other Full House friends out there? Or fans of Step by Step and 7th Heaven? I know, me too! Growing up, these shows were the sweet […]
DIY Inside Out Halloween Costumes
When I was a kid, I went to my town’s Halloween parade and costume contest every year and every year I lost. I remember being so proud of my plastic Annie mask or my angel halo made out of a hanger and tin foil and being super sad when I lost. I think this losing did something to my psyche […]
Check One for the Family TV Milestone
True confession: I’m 36 years old and I don’t know how to use our TV. When kids came into the picture, screen time quickly became the same Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD played on repeat on while Mommy stole showers or fought her way through burning yet another dinner. By the time Mickey’s antics were outgrown, the […]
Have Courage and Be Kind
As with most things that are culturally-relevant, I’m a bit behind the game. As in, entire world-wide trends will come and go, and I’ll miss them. Or an earthquake will happen next door, and I won’t notice. This usually results in me hollering at my husband, “Why didn’t you tell me about this?!” He’s all, […]
First Time Visiting Disney World? You CAN Do This!
You might want to sit down for this announcement, friends: we have never been to Disney World.* I know, I know. Seems shockingly impossible. My poor culturally-deprived children will be accepting any and all sympathy cards and extra Halloween candy as condolences–but only for the next few months because here’s the bigger announcement: we are going […]
Our Love Affair with the Butt-Kicking Black Widow
Thanks to Target, what’s hotter right now on a parents’ radar than buzz about girls vs. boys vs. gender-neutral toys? Discount the promise of soon being able to sneak out for a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks after dropping the kids at school, and there’s not much. While I’m generally too caught up in my self-imposed Back […]
When Margaret Was Born
In my very particular world of parents with young kids who maintain a intense-to-insane dedication to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, the event of the century went down last week. Daniel Tiger’s little sister Margaret was born. PBS pulled out all the stops for this one. Somehow, my kiddos, who exclusively fan-crush on Daniel through Netflix, still managed to […]
And My Life Just Got a Little Better…
Rolling out 3/23: http://www.disneyjuniorthechannel.com/ Amazing! No more annoying tween-addictive programming in the late afternoon. All Mickey (or the likes there of ), all the time. Perfection…
Holiday Handy-Helper
So as any astute parent would observe, in the opening sequence to “Mickey Saves Santa Claus” (2006) the Handy Helper decorates the entire clubhouse in under 2 seconds without Mickey having to lift a finger. How do I get one of these?? If it’s a matter of selling myself out to become an animated cartoon […]
Cartoons Don’t Always Make Sense
Forgive me from the start, b/c I have strong suspicion that most, if not all, of my future posts will center around children’s television as this has become the epicenter of our lives. I have no idea what is going on in the Middle East, much less the mid-east, but I can discussing programming for […]
