Last month I talked about the new Joy of Learning Playtime Guide on the Fisher-Price website. As I wrote that post, we received a huge delivery with  some great toys inside. An end of summer treat for the kids that has made them very happy – and has allowed me to see learning through play [...]

The summer is just whizzing by. Those four weeks of day camp for Oliver and Callum are almost up. The weekends have been filled with swimming pool and park visits, and riding bikes all around. I’m going to blink and then they’ll all be off to Camp England without me.  I’m going to Camp NYC [...]

(with thanks to Evan Dando and the Lemonheads, who sing this in my head almost every time we go for a walk) She takes me on a rockin’ stroll If you won’t wave guess I won’t know as I by I roll I hope you’ll throw a smile at me this here pram is all [...]

I’ve been thinking recently that I can’t really be called a mom blogger or a mommy blogger (*cringe*) because I don’t usually write blog posts dispensing advice about child rearing. Besides the fact that I don’t actually know what the hell I am doing most of the time, I believe there are about 234,567 right [...]

This weekend it’s my grandparents’ 70th wedding anniversary. Seventy years. Pretty sure I won’t be able to find a standard anniversary greeting card with that many years on it – though you can get a greeting from the Queen (my uncle may have already arranged that one – he’s quite organized about that sort of [...]