I like mom magazines as much as anyone and when a new one hits the market, it’s very likely I will check it out. I think the one in question came to us via some frequent flyer points we were needing to use up and didn’t have enough to actually merit travel.
Enter Cookie.
Ummmm, yeah. [...]

A few weeks ago we purchased a Spiderman 3 Web Slinger Water Slide for our son at Meijer. We were out of town at the time and do not have that store anywhere close to us, making a regrettable purchase also not returnable.
We had issues with this product from Toy Quest from the beginning. After [...]

With four kids under eight, I do a ton of laundry each week, and it’s a rather time consuming process to stay on top of everything. I don’t get much chance to take my time sorting and moving laundry through before someone poops or needs help getting a drink or a boo-boo kissed or homework [...]

The Good Night Our World series of board books is a great idea in principle: a series of books that introduces little people to various places in our world.
Each book proceeds from “Good Morning” to “Good Night” and visits the city or place the book is about through all four seasons. There are more than [...]

Our faithful shower radio from Sharper Image finally bit the dust. I decided to try something new and found a new lime green radio from Zadro Products called iSing. It appeared to be a cooler design and more up-to-date than our previous model and a similar price of $20 seemed reasonable.
The first issue arose when [...]

New Girl here – writing reviews. Guess the editorial board doesn’t know if I can write for shit, which explains why they selected me to test the Metamucil Fiber-Sure.
After a long week, I arrive home on Friday afternoon to find a big square box sitting on my entry table along with a few bills, a [...]

I admit, with my head held high, that I like Jello. And not just in an “Oooh…it’s SO retro” kind of way, either. I actually LIKE it. And since I also love pineapple, I thought that these raspberry pineapple Jello Fruit Passions would be pretty good.
Sadly…I thought wrong. Very wrong.
For starters, they had way too [...]

by MaryAbout certain things, I am a cheapskate. And I have a whole passel of kids, so the diaper bag, aka Mom’s purse, ends up being the repository for everything one needs for a baby in diapers who has reflux and frequently pukes on stuff along with all manner of sippy cups, Happy Meal [...]

Walking by the Gap, I was bowled-over by the new Design Edition line that was created by emerging design talent and shown in bold, clean white lines. The jaunty, angular white “Bow Pocket Dress” designed by Rodarte especially caught my eye. With children in tow, I whip into the Gap, yank a medium off [...]

I drink entirely too much Diet Coke. It is a problem. I admit it. You see, I am a woman who woke up one morning, decided to quit smoking, and did so. But Diet Coke? It is my one true vice, and I don’t know if I could ever give it up entirely.
Now there is [...]

Getting a young child to properly wash their hands is difficult, so when a friend recommended we try SquidSoap I quickly snatched up this new product. It was attractive, fun and interactive, which is everything needed to keep our son’s attention. My hope was that he’d even remember to wash his hands after using the [...]

A few weeks ago, I posted a major prop for the Select Comfort Sleep Number bed. I have yet to decide if our previous mattress was so bad that we could have purchased a queen-sized piece of plywood and I would have given it a prop, or if in fact, the Sleep Number did quite [...]

Pan? Hand it to me so I can bash the crap out of this thing.
After reading on several websites about how wonderful the Playskool Ball Popper is, “Santa” decided to buy it for my son for Christmas. Unfortunately, it’s quite possibly the worst toy we own, for a couple of reasons.
1. It has “8 [...]

My daughter recently potty trained, and as is true much of the time she got the concept of peeing in the potty pretty quickly, but it took the promise of a doll house to get her to do number two. About a month and a half ago we got the Fisher Price Loving Family [...]

DHL, you put my family through hell! Why did your delivery man ask my children our house number? I realize the kids were playing in our yard and the delivery man wanted to know if he was at the correct address. But dude…
You got out of a van and [...]