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 [...]

We purchased Listerine Whitening Pre-Brush Rinse over six months ago. How nice would this product be if it actually works?
Just swish the rinse in your mouth for a few seconds and you get whiter teeth. That’s what Listerine claims anyway. Well, we will never know if this product actually whitens our teeth or not.
After just [...]

This handsome hard-covered children’s book caught my eye in the store, as my own four year-old daughter dearly loves to be fancy.
The cover blurbs celebrated the creation of a fabulous little heroine with a breathtaking sense of style… but when I actually read the book, I tossed it aside in disgust. In the end, Fancy [...]

I recently sampled two types of Keri Moisture Therapy Lotion; the Nourishing Shea Butter and the Original Formula.
Let it be known that my fair, nearly 40 yr old skin does tend to run dry so I’m ALL ABOUT the lotion. I tried both formulas on different days and both did okay in the moisturizing department, [...]