Wednesday, January 30, 2008

'Kinz Kraze
















You haven't lived until you've seen Webkinz! These very cute stuffed critters are a few more dollars than Beanie Babies, but they come with a secret code to their own website and offer endless fun. (I know, I should work for them.)

Each animal gets its own room, so once you have an account, you keep adding rooms to your "house". You can clothe them, feed them, accessorize them, decorate their rooms, read virtual books with them, take them to the arcade (oh, so many fun games!), send them to school...you name it! My sister-in-law has said that Facebook is "gaming for girls", but I'm here to say, THIS is gaming for girls at its finest!

Check out Ben's tiger riding around in his little Chevy, and sleeping in his racecar bed. (Of course, there's also the cat with the baseball room, the dog with the beach room...you get the picture.) Well, if you'll excuse me, I've got some (ahemmm) work to do before the kids get home.

P.S. It took a mom with little kids (way to go Lainey!) to answer the question of what had Ben and Bethany so preoccupied that I could snap all those cute pictures in this post. She recognized the "Webkinz stares" right away!

(Originally posted on Tracy's Scrapbook)

A farewell of another kind





We did something last week that we've never done before, never really considered a possibility since we moved into this house almost six years ago. We had guests over, and actually hung their jackets in our front closet! I know--kinda pathetic--but it's small!

One of my major goals when the kids went back to school was to go through our STUFF and get rid of things we don't need anymore. Today yet another donation truck came and took away a load, and I am happy to say that we are whittling away at it! I must also say, however, that I have a really hard time getting rid of things that my husband bought me, even if they are worn out or outdated. I had to try some of them on to figure out why I don't wear them anymore since I loved them so much for so long. Oh yeah, the shoulder pads. I still have a long way to go on this project, but we're making progress! And so far I've gotten a working front closet out of the deal...