Send your favorite MOM a personalized video award!

May 8, 2009

I’ve been awarded Mother of the Year! It must be true, because I saw it on the internet… Well, okay. I’m not really that great of a mother. How bad is it that my idea of a nice Mother’s Day would be to spend it alone, without my kids? (I’m half-serious.)
Okay, that sounds terrible. [...]

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Happy Star Wars Day!! May the Fourth be with you!

May 4, 2009

This is my kind of holiday, because it combines Star Wars and a pun. The whole point of celebrating Star Wars Day is that you get to repeat this greeting as many times as possible: May the Fourth be with you! Get it? Today is May 4, 2009. May the Fourth! The only thing that [...]

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Tech-loving Moms: Enter to Win a $5000 Tech Makeover

May 2, 2009

I know I’m not the only geeky mom out there, and now there’s proof! HP has teamed with Olympic champion swimmer Dara Torres in the Moms for Simplicity project.

It’s an opportunity to submit a short essay to the Moms for Simplicity site, have your photo included in the Moms for Simplicity mosaic, and a chance [...]

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Gentle, cute, free online games

April 23, 2009

If you haven’t already discovered Orisinal, you should go check it out. I’ve enjoyed playing games there for a couple of years. Unlike the arcade-style video games you might be familiar with, most of these are simple, soft, pastel-colored games with cute characters and soothing music and sound effects. Think bubbles popping, bunnies hopping, flowers [...]

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