My first reason for blogging this was going to be my exclamation part of the way through: “I didn’t know Hallmark owned Crayola!“
Then I got to the part where Zubbles were mentioned, which clarified my confusion. When I saw that colored bubbles were a new product and by Crayola and had issues, I remembered [...]

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To my cousin’s daughter Emma, sometimes also known as Valerie’s “twin cousin” due to how similar they look. She is 6 today.

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I’m sitting here doing the paperwork for my daughter’s enrollment in kindergarten, for which we have been ordered to appear by the school system at 1:30 PM tomorrow. She will be 6 in September, at the old end of the spectrum for her class.
We’d wanted to home school, but she is sooo excited about [...]

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Everyone knows about Where The Wild Things Are. It was a staple of my childhood. However, I was completely unaware that Maurice Sendak had written anything else.
My ex had a different perspective, being smitten with Chicken Soup With Rice when she was a kid. So she bought it for our five year [...]

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