I only remember being mad at my grandma, Me-mommie, twice. The second time was when she declared she was giving-up cookie baking. Self-explanatory. And the first time was when she told me she didn’t know what little girls liked because she was the mom of two boys. Little girl me…
It’s official. All good things must come to an end. And while young men (or old boys, depending on the day) are always in need of new headphones, new swimsuits, and pants that cover their ankles, we’ve officially reached a new era. An era where Santa has declared piles of…
Twenty twenty will go down in history for oh so many reasons, one of which is… the END OF TOYS. Hard to believe so much joy could be sucked out of one single year. But it’s true. Ages 9 and 11 appear to be the final cusp of lusting after…
We’re still deep into Legos and Nerf Guns. Thankfully, Pokémon is finally losing its grip on our wallets. Now beyond these mainstays, every few years the No It All Gift Guide for Boys likes to mix it up. You know, we gotta keep it woke. We started with the OG…
Sometime in the last 18 months or so, our toy chest became the war chest. Gone are the cute little play foods, the American Girl puppies and Baby Cillo. They’ve been replaced with the Nerf rocket launchers and the plastic Halloween ninja daggers and the battery-operated softish bullet machine guns. Outside the front door is a…
Santa is a girl. You know it. So is the Easter Bunny. And since I’m assailing assumptions and trashing traditions, I’m also getting a little bored with the Want Need Wear Read Christmas categorization of the mommy blog world. It seems like this is just the year to blow ’em up…
Let’s face it, we’ve all noticed the marked parallels between Santa Claus and the other omnipotent, omnipresent bearded man up north. He sees you when you’re sleeping? He knows when you’re awake? Surrounded by a group of devout followers… and everything captured carefully in an enormous book. If you don’t…
Last year I came up with the brilliant idea of creating my own gift guide because November and December are such slow, boring months that I’m always tooling around wondering what to do with all of this free time?… This is the time of year when I clearly like to…
About eighteen months ago I was in a training class at work with my friend Monica. She was under the gun to get a little boy present and she asked me for some ideas. That night I looked around the house, jotted down a quick list, and didn’t think about…