Pokemon Gift Guide

My son is a huge Pokemon fan, so he’s checked out what he wants to add to his Christmas list this year.
Here are a few fun gifts for the Pokemon fan on your gift list this year.
1. Pokemon 3″ Mini Plush Ornaments (Pikachu, Eevee, Squirtle, Mew, Munchlax and Mime Jr.) Your Pokemon fan can brighten [...]

Planning A Birthday Party for Twins

Planning a birthday party for twins can be a challenge.  You want to make each child feel like a special individual, while celebrating the fact they were born on the same day.
You should celebrate too, you get to celebrate two birthdays all rolled up in one day.  While it may be a hectic day, look [...]

Children’s Christmas Party Activities

A children’s Christmas party is one of the easiest parties to plan activities for. There are so many options available, the hardest part will be narrowing it down to one or two.
1. Recruit a couple parent volunteer drivers, and go visit all the great Christmas light displays in your area.
2. Take everyone ice skating.
3. Make [...]

Holiday Gift Guide

Gayla McCord at Momgadget has put together a great holiday gift guide this year. She requested others submit ideas to create a reader driven holiday gift guide.
There’s a special guide for finding safe toys this year, as well as dress-up costumes, wood blocks, castles, my High School Musical Gift Guide and much more.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope you and your family are having a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration. Ilove to reflect on all the things I’m thankful for on this day every year. I am most thankful for my husband and my son.
I am also very thankful for all of my readers, and the opportunity to share information with all [...]

High School Musical Gift Guide

High School Musical and HSM 2 are both favorites at our house. Here are 5 HSM games your High School Musical fan may enjoy this Christmas.
1. High School Musical: Sing it For Wii, or Playstation 2. Sing It! is a karaoke video game based on the hit musical. Your child and their friends can sing [...]

The Contest Winner Is

I had my nephew pick the winner from a hat. I know not the most technical method, but it worked. Congratulations to Melynda from Our Blessed Arrows on winning the Your Baby Can Read Kit, I will be having another giveaway in the next couple weeks, stay tuned for details!

Kids Christmas Tree Themes

Here are some really cute children’s Christmas tree themes.
Scooby Doo

Webkinz Christmas Tree

Ballet Christmas

NASCAR Tree

Giveaway Friday

I recently won a Your Baby Can Read set from Gayla at Supernanny Rules over at b5media. Since my son’s 8 years old I won’t be needing it. Soooo… I thought I’d give it away here.
It looks like a really cool product for someone with a young baby or toddler. 
I want to thank Smart Kids- [...]

Vote For Me

I’m trying to win a free blog design from Girly Girl Designz. She’s the wonderful person who designed this blog layout, and I love it. I would like to convert my other blog The Virtual Garden to a wordpress format, and a new theme would lower the cost a bit.
To vote all you have to [...]

Toy Recall: Aqua Dots

There’s been another toy recall, will it ever stop? This time it’s Spinmaster’s Aqua Dots, a toy that’s been touted as one of this Christmas season’s hottest toys! If children swallow the dots the beads are transformed into the date rate drug. A couple children have slipped into comas after ingesting the dots. Check out more details [...]

Top Party Themes

According to Celebrate Express the top birthday party themes this fall include:
1. Hannah Montana
2. High School Musical
3. Pokémon
4. Lil’ Prince 1st
5. The Dog
6. Monster Jam®
7. Mickey’s Clubhouse
8. John Deere
9. Disney Princess Fairy-Tale
10. Tranformers
Is the list what you would expect?

Win A Movie Package

Erika over at Parent Product Reviews is having a contest. All you have to do to enter the contest is leave a comment on her blog post. I love contests like that, in fact I’m already entered. She’s giving away a movie projector rental, a couple copies of Shrek the Third when it comes out, [...]

Basic Party Planning Supply Checklist

Invitations
Hand made, printable, or preprinted
Decorations
Balloons, centerpiece, table cloth, streamers, banners
Make your own decorations or buy them.
Games and Activities
Plan age appropriate games and activities, make a checklist of all the supplies you need for your games and activities.
Tableware
Plates, Napkins, Spoons and Forks, cups
Anything you need for snacks, cake and ice cream.
Food
Cake and Ice Cream, Snacks, and [...]