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![Holiday Gift Guide: Tonka XT Ricochet Tricksters [Giveaway]](http://www.musingsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Tonka-XT-Ricochet-Tricksters-RC.jpg)
At a recent Monster Jams, show I was slack jawed at the way the drivers drove those enormous trucks over massive mounds of dirt, around precariously placed barricades, and on top of dirt structures the size of small homes. The show was noisy and fun. The show had me wondering about the offerings in...
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![Holiday Gift Guide: KRE-O Transformers Sentinel Prime Set [Giveaway]](http://www.musingsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/KRE-O-Transformers-Sentinel-Prime.jpg)
The changing forms. The deep, radio announcer-like voice. The shape shifting from car to robot and robot to car. Until I saw the first Transformers movie, I truly did not “get” the whole Transformers robots thing. The TV show seemed like a hodge podge of animation styles. The voices indistinct. The plot line meaningless....
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Music calms the savage beast…uh…I mean baby. If you have every sat in a car with a squalling crying baby for a long trip you will feel my pain. As the navigator-not-the-driver-on-family-trips, I am the designated hitter with any crises to do with the kids. As the kids moved from the babies and toddlers...
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When my son was born, my oldest was finishing up 1st grade while my youngest was finishing up her last year of preschool. As the school year began for both girls the following August, my son and I were left in a strangely quiet house. From 8:10 until 3:30 p.m. it was as quiet...
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![Holiday Gift Guide: Lego Pirates of the Carribean [Giveaway]](http://www.musingsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Lego-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Fountain-of-Youth.jpg)
As a kid, I played Lego all the time. I remember creating an entire town of buildings, schools, offices, a zoo, a hospital, and even a police station. I played with this Lego “town” for years and years. It was sadly dismantled on our family’s final move from New Jersey back to England. How...
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“There’ll be a lot of kerfuffle.” I remember like it was yesterday my grandmother warning me about an upcoming commotion or fuss or kerfuffle. She was all about anticipating potential disaster. I definitely inherited my “it will end in tears” attitude from my grandmother. Kerfuffle is one of those words I like to drop...
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My oldest is always ahead of the game. As an almost-tween she “discovered” the Bobby Jack monkeys. For a few years she was all about those cute monkeys. Posters on her wall. Desk accessories. Many, many tees. Even a pair of sweatpants. And then nothing. No more monkeys. No more cute monkey pencils. Nada....
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![@Kneebouncers: Free Games for Toddlers [Giveaway]](http://www.musingsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Kneebouncers-logo-300x67.png){kind=logo}
A few years ago my friend told me about a game her toddler son played all the time. The game was a “simple tap of the keys and watch what happens” type of game. A simple concept to adults, but the game allowed kids to make choices and decisions about how the game would...
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Options. Enrichment. Opportunities. Advancement. Like all parents, I want the very best education for my kids. I’m fortunate to live in the county where the school system is on the rise academically. About 5 years ago, our school district surpassed a neighboring county’s test scores. This change was monumental for our county. If you...
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![Super Diaper Baby: Super Hero, Super Dog, Super Fun [Giveaway]](http://www.musingsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Super-Diaper-Baby-21-150x150.jpg)
I must admit that I avoid talking about bodily fluids. My days of diaper changing are over. In the day…the days of diapers and diaper changing…I was all about poop and how much and how messy and oh my what did this baby eat to make such a messy diaper. But, now those days...
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