The Children’s Museum of Virginia, located in Portsmouth, VA is a wonderful place to spend the day with your family! There are some many interactive activities and rooms to play in! The museum is a two story experience that even has its own Planetarium. The bottom floor has “The City”, where there is a city bus, fire truck, and police motorcycle to hop on and “drive&rd...

Ruckus, family card game The most fun ever! For the whole family> no reading needed, just matching skills(and a bit of sneaky skills!) My family & I found this game on vacation last year at a gaming store. It was just a deck of cards, with all sorts of weird pictures. The saleslady showed us how to play and after 2 minutes, we were hooked! We took it back to the house and had a ...

Crocodile Dentist One of my kid’s favorite games! I have two kids, 4 & 7. We all love this game! I love that there are no pieces to lose!!!!! And that any age can play, or any number of people can play. Heck, you can even play by yourself! There is plastic croc head, full of big white teeth. The object is to not get bitten by the croc. You get bitten if you push on his “hur...

Crocs, Mary Jane style Super comfy shoes! Great fun colors!!  I know there are people out there who think these are the ugliest shoe, but these shoes are so comfy (and I think cute!) I wear a sz 10 women’s and don’t like shoes that make my feet look big (bigger, heehee). These shoes are fabulous!!! I first got them around Easter for an island excursion on a National Park/...

Guess Who? Guess what> this is a fun game!!!! You can play with a variety of ages. My son played at 3, sometimes he needed a little help, but he understood what to do. The basics of the game is that each player has a board with about 20 or so people on it. You draw a card to find out who you are. Then each player takes turns asking the other a yes/no question. Bit by bit, you figure out...

Kings Dominion, now operated by the Cedar Fair Corporation, is a great family fun amusement park. We live about 25 minutes away and have season passes. The park opens around the end of March and close the last weekend of October. It is weekends only until Memorial Day, and back to weekends only after Labor Day. Now, my review is as the park was on our last few visits of the ’07 year. King...

As I am the kitchen cranking out holiday treats, I am reminded how much I love, love, LOVE my Kitchen Aid mixer! I own the stand size mixer, and have it for over 8 years. It is not a cheap item, but it will outlast all others! I decorate cakes as a hobby and I could never do the amount of icing I need for my cakes without this machine. It is truly a lifesaver! It will mix things a hand mixer ...

Take Along Thomas the Train My son most favorite thing, ever! He has both the nice, bigger wooden Thomas trains and the little die-cast Take along version. First difference: this Thomas is a die cast train. It has a strong little magnet on both the front and back. Second difference: Take along Thomas is 2 ½ inches long, where the wooden Thomas is 3 ½ inches. You would think 1...

Webkinz Stuffed Animals My family has adopted 4 webkinz, with more on the way! We own (my kids & me) two frogs (bullfrog & regular frog), the elephant, & the white poodle. My daughter first got one as a birthday gift, and my son quickly had to have his! I like the variety of animals that Webkinz has, it makes it fun and people are more likely to get their favorite animals (my s...

Last Easter, I received the nicest new slippers> the Lands End Women's Quilted Moc Slippers. How did the Easter Bunny know I would come to adore these slippers!!! I have them in cobalt blue, so pretty! They are so comfy and warm! I have them on right now! As soon as the weather gets cold, I pull these slippers out and pop them on. I wear them everywhere> they are so comfy and nice I...

The North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island is a nice place to take your family and have a fun time. It is a kinda small aquarium, a few hours is more than enough time to enjoy everything there. They have fish, otters, gators, and more fish! The aquarium is located near the Outer Banks/Nags Head on the North Carolina shore. It has educational programs that are available to the public. ...

The Richmond Metro Zoo, located in Amelia County about 30 minutes outside of Richmond, is a nice little zoo! I have been to 2 major zoos in the USA, one of which is the Washington DC Zoo where I used to visit a lot when I went to school near it. I am used to a large zoo, and wasn’t sure what to expect at the Richmond Metro Zoo. Honestly, I had heard some negative things about it in the ...

Mammoth Crocs My newest fave shoe! FABOLUOUS!!!! Warm, fuzzy, and cute! I own the Cotton Candy Pink; they come with a cream colored fleece lining. The lining is so soft and cozy! Loves these shoes, I have been wearing them almost non-stop since I got them! Now, I do love Crocs, I have 3 pair of Mary Janes which I adore, but they are not so great for the winters. I got my Mammoths for Christ...

St. Ives Facial Apricot Scrub This is my face cleaner of choice for more years than I can remember! I love how my face feels after I use this product. It comes in a squeeze tube, and is a good value for the money, about $2.50 for 6oz, which last for about a month for me. It has a soft, gentle scent which I appreciate since I don’t like strong fragrances. The apricot granules in the s...

Cranium Hullabaloo, super fun game for all! I knew nothing of this game until about 3 weeks ago. I had heard good things about the Cranium games, but we didn’t own any. My family loves games, we love to play, especially games we can play as a family, which can sometimes be challenging with a 4yr old and a 7 yr old. We own many games and are always on the look-out for new ones. My daugh...

BlokusGreat mind game! For Christmas, I received a great new game> BLOKUS. I learned of the game and tested it out in a game store over a year before in a gaming store, then new saw it again and couldn’t remember the name! A few months before Christmas, I was excited to see this game in my local Target store and remembered how fun it seemed. I can say now that I own it, it is gr...

Bath & Body WorksINSTANT HAND FOAM, Just for Kids Anti-Bacterial Everyone nowadays has some kind of antibacterial stuff, one of the most popular being the evaporating kind you put on your hands. Like any good mom, I too have several kinds. My favorite kind, and my kids’ fave, is Bath & Body Works Just for Kids Anti-Bacterial Instant Hand Foam. I have the travel/purse size,...

Belkin TuneBase FM for iPod mini A true, must-have product for my family! I have an iPod, like so many others, LOVE IT! So do my kids, even though I don’t let them use it often. Like so many families, we find ourselves in the car a lot, running from place to place. We also have family (grandparents) located many several hundred miles away. I used to have the car cassette, with a car...

Stamina INstride 38” Trampoline Great for inside kiddies going crazy! I picked this up at Wal-Mart about a week ago, for the bargain price of $19. I figured if it was a dud, I could try to return it, or at least not be out too much money. I see NO sign of returning it! In fact, if you get one, don’t forget to pick up a timer , if you have more than one child, will so h...

Black & Decker  Quick N Easy Plus Food Processor My food Processor is an often forgotten house item. I admit to not using it often as of late. It gets pulled out of the top-hard-to-reach cabinet for holiday cooking, and then forgotten about again. This year, I decided to try to use more. I can now say, it’s a great and handy item> even though its not a can’t liv...