I’ve visited Tweetsie Railroad amusement park in western North Carolina twice in the past two years. It’s been a long time since my one trip to Disney World in Florida, but I remember enough about it to know that I prefer Tweetsie by leaps and bounds.
It’s not even a close race. Here are five reasons why I love Tweetsie Railroad.…
If you’re expecting a baby, you’ll want to head on over to Amazon and create a baby registry
If you have too much stuff, it might feel so overwhelming that you don’t know where to start to get rid of everything you no longer need. You can get so tangled up in just getting through each day that you can’t seem to find time prune your possessions.
If you’ve got kids, you probably have clothing they outgrew years ago and toys they’ve forgotten they have.…
There seems to be an unwritten rule for computer geeks, that we must love Star Wars or Star Trek, or both. I’m not a huge trekkie, though I’m fascinated by the Trek phenomenon.
I am, however, a huge fan of the original three Star Wars movies. Naturally, I looked forward to sharing these movies with my kids.
My older daughter, despite showing many signs of being a computer geek in the making, had no interest in viewing the Star Wars movies.…
If you’ve got kids in school, you’ve probably seen some report cards. Unfortunately, so-so grades in school can add a note of gloom to the school breaks for kids who dread going back because they struggle in one or more subjects.
However, a kid doesn’t need to be the smartest in the class to do well in life. Studies show that the real secret to success is grit – the will and motivation to succeed.…
Who else remembers the Staples Easy Button? Years ago, I had a coworker who had a Staples Easy Button on her desk. Everyone thought it was the coolest thing, and it didn’t actually do anything except sit there.
Amazon has come up with a button that actually performs a task. It places an order for something you need on a regular basis, simply by pressing a button.…
For my younger daughter’s Girl Scouts pumpkin carving contest, she wanted to make a Minecraft Creeper jack-o-lantern. My husband worked with her on this, and the resulting creation looks fantastic.
He actually drew the Minecraft Creeper’s face freehand, but you can also use a stencil. Here’s how my husband and daughter made their Minecraft Creeper pumpkin.
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If you have female friends of childbearing age, chances are pretty good that, at some point, you’ll host a baby shower. Or, you might help with planning someone’s baby shower.
When buying baby shower invites, you could pick up a pack of invitations at Walmart and be done with it. However, you might want to consider custom baby shower invites instead.…
Girls Scouts is certainly a lot different now than when I was a member a really long time ago. One of my frustrations when my younger daughter became a Daisy last year was attaching Girl Scout patches to her vest.
Most of them look like they should iron on, but they either won’t iron on at all, or they fall off right away.…
If you’re ready to build your next home, you’ve probably started thinking about where you’d like to build it. You may have heard of “master planned” neighborhoods, but what does that actually mean?
Developers with a master plan put together a neighborhood based on more than just how many houses they can pack into each acre or square mile of land.…
