Colum loves the idea of a board game, but Colum is also a three-year-old boy. Sitting down to a game of Snakes and Ladders, then, is an exercise is slowly mounting frustration for all involved. Either that or a random game of tossing dice and moving little pieces around willy-nilly until Irene comes over and tries to eat one. He just doesn’t have the patience for any sort of prolonged roll-and-move, turn-taking game. So when he unwrapped this Pengoloo game at Grandma and Grandpa’s on Christmas Eve, I was skeptical. Great. Another game that I don’t have time to play during the day that will infuriate his sister and ultimately end up in whining and floor-rolling.
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Perfect For Preschoolers: Pengoloo
A week and a half ago I went out and bought a slow cooker. (It was a 
As soon as I had a baby I knew I wanted a Jolly Jumper. I don’t know why, exactly (memories of bouncing baby sibs, perhaps), but want one I did. So I was pretty disappointed when our apartment had cheap, modern doorframes that weren’t wide enough to hang the jumper from. But I did without.
I have not historically been the most timely person. It keeps happening that I will set something aside for just a little bit with the best of intentions. That task will invariably become buried (both literally and figuratively) beneath all of life’s daily debris and become quite forgotten about.