The Best Thing That Happened To Me In 2012 … So Far

And it comes in a jar. It’s a butter … that is made out of …. Wait for it … waiiiit for it … COOKIES!!!!! It’s Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter. Who thinks these things up? How crazy is that? Someone sat there and thought, hmmmm, I am going to take some cookies, ground them [...]

What Your Child Should Be Reading: Part 3

It’s been a while since I posted one of these so I think it’s a good time to do that. My first recommendation today which is good for 3 – 8 year olds is: 1) The Little Miss and The Mr. Men pocket books These book are a delight, they are enjoyed by both little [...]

My Favorite Blogs of 2009

I was supposed to do my 2009 favorites in 2009 but what can I say, I can never conform to any deadlines or rules, rules and deadlines are for sissy’s. So  I am going to do it starting today. And by starting today there could be more on the way, or not. Today I will [...]

عرمرم Aramram

Aramram is the first Interent TV channel that is brodacst , or hosted, from Amman, Jordan. I love it. The clips are great. It’s Done by young people for young people and it covers so many topics that are not covered by the main stream media in general. Sometimes it’ funny, sometimes it’s inspiring and [...]

What Your Child Should Be Reading: Part 2

Todays books are all chapter books geared more towards 5 – 10 year olds or when your child can remember what was read to them the day before and can be excited about what is going to happen next. 1) The first series is the Magic Tree House series: Travel through time with brother and sister [...]

What Your Child Should Be Reading: Part 1

I LOVE children’s books. Even before I had my little 7aki I was drawn to these books and I loved reading them. Here are some of my favorite children’s books in no particular order. They are for different ages, from toddler to Teenager. 1) Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. Such [...]

A Couple of Funny Doses

I just finished reading “The Undomestic Goddess ” and “Can You Keep a secret” by Sophie Kinsella. The first is about a high profile lawyer who gets mistaken for a house keeper and the second is about a woman who gives away all her secrets to a stranger which comes back and bites her in the [...]

Best Invention Since Sliced Bread?

Audio books! As you all know I have been a bit preoccupied and my hands have been a bit tied up. As I felt my brain shrinking from all the things I was not doing ( like say working and reading) I went RUNNING to my public library to try and solve the shrinkage problem. [...]

Now you see it, now you don’t

I went and watched “The Dark Night” on Monday and I will leave you with this image: The Jokers idea of a magic trick is to make a pencil disappear in a mans head. Now you see it, now you don’t. So yeah. Go watch it. I loved it and it gave me nightmares that [...]

A Quarter or More?

I was reading this post (which is brilliant and hilarious) at the same time. The author says: “as you grow older, do you notice how the value of the dropped coin you’re willing to chase after keeps getting bigger and bigger? At one point you stopped crawling after pennies because, after all, it was just [...]

NC-17: No one under 17 is allowed . Some Of My Favorite Blogs Rated

Keeping with the theme of the previous post I rated some of the blogs on my blog roll, similar to a movie rating and oh boy this is just tooo funny. 1) First all the bloggers that are RATED G where all ages are admitted: First Let me Rate Roba’s And Far away. You can [...]

A Dose of Inspiration: Three Cups of Tea

How do I begin with this one? Today I just finished reading Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin and it was the most inspiring REAL story I have ever read about a man educating the girls and boys of Pakistan and Afghanistan one village at a time. Greg Mortenson dreamt [...]

One Sheet of Paper

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The Michael Jackson Dance

Check this out.  Soooooo funny. The audiance goes WILD. I love “Britain’s got talent”. It’s were I first heard of Paul Potts, you should DEFINITELY check the link out, he is soooo good he sends shivers down my spine.  

My Favorite Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

Number one: AQUA DOTS This Innocent looking craft toy that came out last year intended for children 4 and up has beads that are laced with the date-rape drug GHB that would cause people to become comatose. I knew our neighbours 3 year old boy was up to no good when he got this for little 7aki on her birthday. [...]

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