One day last week, my older daughter took a marker and added some new birthdays to our family calendar. Apparently July is a busy month for her stuffed animals, and she wanted to make sure that Zip (7/15), Marshalina (7/27) and Flip (8/7) each got the celebration she deserved.
On Zip’s birthday — a Thursday — [...]
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Pancakes for all occasions
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The Bubble Files
Monday, July 12th, 2010I’ve developed a small-scale obsession with bubbles this summer. At Toy Fair, the nice people hawking the Bubble Thing pressed one into my palm during the final moments of the show and told me to take it home and try it out. So I did, and then we were hooked. Blowing giant bubbles is wondrous [...]
The sound of Mom
Thursday, May 13th, 2010My mom sent me a link to a fascinating story on CNN.com yesterday - a scientific research study has just proven that young girls are comforted by the sound of their mother’s voice. And yes, OK, that does sound like they’re stating the obvious, but the researchers compared the response of girls who had physical [...]
Happy Mother’s Day
Friday, May 7th, 2010Mother’s Day is a day for mothers. Which also means it’s a day for flowers. For sleeping late. For breakfast in bed or brunch (or both). For greeting cards. For macaroni necklaces. For snuggles and kisses.
But more than anything else, it’s really a day for reflecting on your journey, and why you signed up for [...]
Magic Madness is upon us
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010For a few years, we’ve had a traditional March Madness bracket competition in our office. We have a few avid sports fans in the company and they get really into their “brackets.” Last year, we wondered if there was a way to create a tournament that mirrored the bracket-style fun of March Madness but, instead [...]
Holiday Giveaways # 5 - IdeaPaint Dry Erase White Board Paint
Monday, November 9th, 2009When IdeaPaint asked to do an installation in the Wellesley store’s playscape, I don’t think any of us imagined a project of any great magnitude. But after an onsite brainstorming session a couple of months ago, we ended up with a very big idea. We decided to create three large-scale IdeaPaint murals - one for [...]
Giveaways are BACK
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Welcome to November, the official kick-off month to the holiday season, AKA the season of giving. We’re celebrating by bringing back another 31 Days of (holiday) Giveaways. To preserve our sanity during our busiest time of the year, it will work slightly differently this time around. New giveaways will begin at noon every Monday, Wednesday, [...]
Great IdeaPaint Giveaway
Friday, October 23rd, 2009As anyone who has ever sat in a meeting with me knows, I love whiteboards. I love the way a whiteboard can help organize a conversation, define objectives and lend focus to an outcome. They’re also very entertaining when my kids come to visit - something which may be unremarkable in most other offices, but [...]
National Family Game Night tonight
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009Forget those TV premiers that you’ve been enjoying all week. Tonight is the first official National Family Game Night, and that sounds like fun. Hasbro is sponsoring the event and challenging families to take a deep breath, turn off the iPhones, the iPods, the iMacs and any other iThingies that distract you from your kids. [...]
It’s National S’mores Day!
Monday, August 10th, 2009That’s right, there’s a holiday for everything. Today is National S’mores Day, which means I felt a moral obligation to eat some. I know that part of the fun of S’mores is roasting the marshmallows over an open flame, but whenever we do that, I eat like a hundred marshmallows. So I developed a recipe [...]
