Do Life Right

My family and I (two daughters, ages 11.5 and 7.5) have been able to play with a variety of virtual pets over the past year and we’ve compared them side-by-side. The ones we’ve tried are: Webkinz, Shining Stars, Ty Beanie Babies 2.0, My ePets, and Ty Girlz. If any other company would […]

Sounds ominous, doesn’t it?
Earlier this year I stashed away the three Webkinz Lil’ Frogs (Regular Frog, Bull Frog, and Tree Frog) for myself. I decided to go ahead and adopt them today as I’d finally come up with names for them and I’d finally prepared a room for them in […]

I enjoy playing in Webkinz World every day (my kids like Webkinz a lot, but I think I like it more). Playing games on Webkinz is a meditative and relaxing part of my regular day. Everyone needs something in their day that is relaxing. Webkinz is one of mine. I also […]

Is Webkinz turning our gardens into secret gardens? When we logged in today to take care of our plants, we discovered that our gardens were missing! After many failed attempts, we weren’t able to even get to my youngest daughter’s garden to check it out… We had to make up a […]

My younger daughter made a Webkinz Balloon Room. We just finished it last week. You can’t have a pet walk though it, but isn’t it lovely? Her Love Frog, Sweetheart, is in the picture.

Part of bridging to a new level in Girl Scouts is helping to plan (or completely planning) a ceremony. My daughter, in preparation of bridging from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadette Girl Scouts decided to plan our ceremony last month (she doesn’t actually bridge until May). She, with my husband’s and my help, […]

Wow! My Mom sent me a few packs of the new Webkinz Trading Cards Series 2. I opened the packs and found that I was a very lucky recipient of a free mystery pet. The exciting (and scary) part is that I had to name the pet without knowing what the pet […]

My favorite Webkinz pet has always been the cow. The cow is a super animal and makes a wonderful stuffed pet. S/he’s soft and plush and has the most awesome bean bag feet. Shortly before Christmas I decided to get my own Webkinz account, so it wasn’t too surprising that I received […]

I’ve met a lot of people lately who are feeling stifled and uncreative. They’ve been working hard at parenting, other caregiving (of parents, friends, or other relatives), or in their careers. I hear women, in particular, say there is no time for themselves. No time for pleasure or creativity. No time […]

My immediate family and I are not sports fans. Never have been and probably never will be. While we can appreciate other people enjoying sports, we don’t. [We’ve encouraged the kids to be sports fans, so they wouldn’t be influenced by us, but they wouldn’t have any of it. They know […]