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| My Life as a Parent: The Cat Toy |
Ah, Christmastime. School plays, holiday movies, snowmen, and gingerbread. Then there’s the list. |
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Family Theatre, Movies, Music and Exhibits |
37th Street Lights: When we went to press, all signs indicated that this event was happening 2010 so we’re putting it in here in case you’d like to check it out. |
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Sizzle Sights: Washington-on-the-Brazos |
I recently had the rather surreal experience of visiting a family-friendly historic site … without my family. |
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Editor’s Note: December 2010 |
When it comes to the holidays, my kids couldn’t be any more different. |
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Santa’s Goin’ Green: How to Have A Weird and Wonderful Austin Holiday! |
As captain of our Christmas season, I take on a litany of tasks to recreate for my family the holidays I enjoyed as a child: mailing cards, decorating our home, baking gingerbread cookies, shopping an |
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10 Ways to Green the Holidays |
1) Junk the junk mail. Stop mail-order catalogues at CatalogueChoice.org or eliminate all junk mail at newdream.org/junkmail/optout.php or 41pounds.org |
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Santa's Goin' Green: How to Have A Weird and Wonderful Austin Holiday! |
As captain of our Christmas season, I take on a litany of tasks to recreate for my family the holidays I enjoyed as a child: mailing cards, decorating our home, baking gingerbread cookies, shopping an |
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Pouchee Purse Organizer | $24-46 |
This nifty item reminds us of the tiny little handbags we all carried around as kids. Designed by a 60-year-old mama to keep you organized even if you change purses often, the Pouchee Purse Organizer has slots for your credit cards, cell phone and other small items (lipstick, comb, sunglasses... |
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Djubi | $30 |
If this toy doesn’t make your kids eager to get off the couch and go outside, we don’t know what will. Djubi includes a ball with a rubber band on it and two “racquets” that are basically huge nets with a notch on top. You attach the ball’s rubber band to the notch and pull it back, sling-shot... |
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Banangrams, Appletters, and Pairs in Pears Games | $15 |
If you’re a Scrabble freak trying to introduce the game to your kids without much luck, let us introduce you to Bananagrams. When this game showed-up, it piqued the interest of even our most anti-Scrabble kid. That’s because this game is free-flowing: you have letter tiles, but they aren't... |
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Secret Science Team Game | $30 |
This "mission", called Assignment 1001, had our kids assume the roles of a forensics team to the local police department, investigating the case of counterfeit video games. With an "open first" case file, the kids knew what they were trying to do, and why. And yes, they loved it! Recommended... |
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ImagiPLAY Push Along Duck | $15 |
Crafted from plantation grown rubberwood (an eco-friendly hardwood) using ethical labor and non-toxic paints, this toy seems manufactured especially for the eco-conscious Austin market. And we weren’t disappointed. Tough and sturdy, the ImagiPLAY Push Along Duck has survived hours of play by... |
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Hurry Up! Game | $11 |
We sent this game to a 5th grade math class to be tested as part of the class’ “game day”…and we discovered that it really did cause everyone to yell “hurry up!” Simple yet ingenious, Hurry Up! contains six dice, a timer, and a few instructional challenge cards. The point is to amass the... |
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Squiggle 20 Questions | $5 |
Like many scribble games, this one has a notepad with a golf pencil. Each page has a scribble line to start you off. Meant for two or more players, the game features a spin wheel that instructs the artist what to draw (person, place, thing, animal, activity, food); the artist must then use the... |
