*With apologies to Salt-n-Pepa .  Ever since I miserably failed at not letting my tiny people watch TV (Ironflower was 7 months old and te...

This was the second year we were lucky enough to go to the KidzVuz  Holiday Party. I can only hope we're lucky enough to go again n...

Thanks to an email from Sandbox Strategies , Game Mill Entertainment and Disney Interactive , the kids and I got to go to a screening of Bi...

Dear Hugmonkey,      I am having a hard time realizing that my baby is a six year old kindergartner. As much as I enjoy watching you learn...

Even though my kids still have almost a month of school left, I spend part of every day prepping for their summer vacation. Some of it is ju...

It's not a surprise when a 5 year old boy gets a hole in his pants. It's not completely unprecedented for that hole to be across...

While I am related to one of the performers in this piece, I promise you, my review is completely unbiased. This critic would never let her ...

For a lot of reasons, I did not send out holiday cards this year. Even though I so love getting them. Especially if they have pictures. So, ...

Okay, technically it's called "Lego Kids Fest" , but really it's a Lego convention. I don't know where I heard about i...

Dear Hugmonkey,      Today you are 5 years old. I am constantly entertained by the person my baby has turned into. Though you regularly re...

Hugmonkey still talks about Hurricane Sandy . After things got basically back to normal around here (and once again, we were so fortunate in...

So, as we all know, I am not exactly a domestic goddess. When it comes to cooking, I'm not even a domestic priestess. Or noblewoman. O...