If you have a new baby, or are expecting a baby, or you know someone who’s expecting a baby and you need to get them a gift, or you just like buying baby products because you never know when someone might get knocked up, may I make a loud, frothy-mouthed recommendation? BUY A MIRACLE BLANKET.
If […]

Considering how much I enjoy telling other people what to do, read, and watch, I can’t believe I never thought of this before: You can donate copies of your favorite books and DVDs to the library, thereby sneakily infecting other patrons with your preferences.
I thought of it when I was trying to make you […]

Do you have a Borders bookstore near you? If you don’t, I don’t know how you’re going to find this, because I have looked everywhere. I searched by ISBN number, I searched for it on the Borders website, I searched for it on the publisher’s website. No luck. The only place […]

We have plastic Easter baskets all over our house. We use them as barf buckets. Also as buckets for small toys, and for toys with many pieces.
We use them as “pick-up buckets”: I fill a bucket with the crap I find under the couch, and I hand it to a child to […]

Unless you are watching the old Sesame Street (and I do recommend that as the first strike for sanity rights), you are going to have the stupid Elmo’s World theme song going through your head:
“La la la la! La la la la! Elmo’s World!
La la la la! La la la la! […]