Yesterday was Force Friday, a huge promotional day when Disney allowed retailers to start selling merchandise for the new Star Wars movie coming out in December. There were lines outside of stores, sales galore, and a whole galaxy's worth of products to explore ( Read more... )

I am so in love with my new cell phone case.  It's just the coolest thing.  It's made of faux leather in a wallet style.  The outside is printed to look like the cover of the book (I picked 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea because the tentacle design looks fantastic) and the inside has three pockets and the plastic holder to snap the cell phone in ( Read more... )

When I was in elementary school - either second or third grade, I can't remember which - I had a teacher who liked to sing little songs about the everyday events in the life of a child.  The one song that I specifically remember was the New Shoes song, and it went something like this:

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It looks like my brief flirtation with buying a new car is over ( Read more... )

I never thought that Honda would let me down, but man, the new Civics are no fun at all ( Read more... )

With the sock party behind me, I suddenly feel very rushed about Christmas.  It's coming so quickly!  Since we're celebrating the Buckley Christmas early - on the 22nd instead of Christmas Day or later - we now have less than a week to get everything bought and wrapped ( Read more... )

Last month I made the mistake of ordering a few too many books from Amazon Vine, so I have spent most of this week holed up in the house, reading as fast as I can so that I could complete all of my reviews in time for the next newsletter ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was shopping at Target and ended up buying two dresses from the girl's section.  I love the kid's sections at Target - you always find the best deals there!  First of all, kid's clothes are always cheaper than adult clothes.  You could put the exact same dress in girls and juniors, but the  girls dress would be $24 and the juniors would ( Read more... )