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Family Life

Lego Storage

January 10, 2010

LEGO Storage is a problem for all of us with LEGO Loving Loved ones. Well, I have an example of an amazing LEGO storage system. I was reading The Blue Blog, one of my favorite knitting blogs, the author of which also has LEGO obsessed twin boys. Behold, the wonders of her system:

A contaner store [...]

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Building The Kids An Igloo

December 28, 2009

About a week before Christmas we received quite a big dumping of snow here on the East Coast. We live near the ocean and it’s fairly unusual to get more than a foot of snow in one storm. But last week we had close to a foot and a half of great packing snow hit [...]

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Lazertag 2 Player System – 2009 Edition

November 28, 2009

Ok, Mrs TR is probably going to kill me for even suggesting this, but I really want to pick up a set of these Lazer Tag guns for the boys this holiday season. You see, Mrs TR is new school in the sense that playing with guns cannot lead to anything good and thus has [...]

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Pirate Lego Advent Calendar Letter Writing Campaign!

October 14, 2009

Well folks, we’re fed up. One of the kids was looking over my shoulder while I was editing out post on the Lego Advent Calendar for 2009 and of course had to know what it was and if they could get one for their birthday. And they were NOT referring to the boring old City [...]

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The Toy Room Lives!

October 10, 2009

Late last year we embarked on a journey that we thought would be much much shorter than it turned out to be. You see, Mrs TR decided that she had finally had enough of both the mass of toys we had acquired and thrown into he Toy Room as well as the old boring wallpaper [...]

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Kids Halloween Costumes – BuyCostumes Coupon 20% Off!

October 6, 2009

Well, it’s that time of year again folks. Time to break out either the kids halloween costume catalog or time to head to the fabric store and spend every night between now and Halloween sitting at the sewing machine sewing the kids costumes like Mrs TR has done in years past.
This year despite our best [...]

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Fairy Houses

July 26, 2009

We have fairies in need of a house, apparently. The boys read this book, Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane and then couldn’t rest until we built our own fairy house. There are rules, you can’t use anything that isn’t from nature (so no doll house furniture) and you can’t damage anything living. So, a stick [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 10, 2009

An adorable Manhattan Toy nursing nana dog (and cat and piggie) in honor of all mothers everywhere!
I hope you all enjoyed your breakfast in bed as much as I did: Hello Kitty toast and a doughnut shared 4 ways.
Have a happy day, I hope you all got a little quiet time!

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Kids’ TV Shows I Do Not Like

April 29, 2009

We try not to watch much TV around here, but it creeps in and while some weeks are virtually TV free and others include more television than I would like. I have some shows I like (I think I have already mentioned my love for Charlie and Lola), but there are also shows I really [...]

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Does anyone remember Tamagotchi?

April 26, 2009

Well, apparently, they still exist, and they are a lot more complicated than they were back in the mid-nineties. Remo had one back then, (yes he was abut 15 years older than the typical tamagotchi owner, but even then had a love of gadgety toys). Well, said tamagotchi was fun for a couple of weeks, and [...]

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