While I have LONG been a Windows Phone girl, I am still in possession of only the lowliest Windows Phone - an ancient HTC Model - but what I covet is the HTC Windows Phone 8X. It’s HTC’s first Windows 8 phone, and it's already been crowned by reviewers as the best one ever. We're giving one away Continue Reading
KidzVuz on WPIX Morning News! (Including me!)
Yesterday morning, Rebecca Levey and I were on the WPIX Morning News with beautiful (and nice - damn her!) anchor Tamsen Fadal, talking about our holiday picks for tweens. Well, not OUR picks (because really, who cares what us adults think?) but our KidzVuz reviewers picks. Check us out: We were Continue Reading
Hey, New York: Are you ready for an Emergency?
So here's the thing about living in Manhattan: It's culture filled and exciting. It has great shopping and even better food. It's never boring, it sometimes smells. It's where my family has lived since the late 19th century. And it's an island, which means that if there's an emergency here, well, Continue Reading
A Gift Guide for Tweens: A Ton of Giveaways!
If I need a gift for a toddler, or a first or second grader, I head on over the The Toy Insider, because I know they don’t just list a bunch of toys, these people research and test and try and can rattle off the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of any toy on the market. It’s almost freaky. Continue Reading
Giveaway: Pillow Pet and Pillow Pet DS Game
Everybody loves Pillow Pets. They're pillows, they're stuffed animals. They are, it seems, universally loved. Personally, I don't get it. To me, they're neither really stuffed animals, nor quite real pillows. But hey, that's why I invented KidzVuz, so kids could tell us what they love -- even Continue Reading
I’m Officially Fat: Time for a Healthy Choice Giveaway
Congratulations are in order. Because I have accomplished the impossible. I now weigh what I weighed when I returned home from the hospital after giving birth to twins ten years ago. Yes, it's true. What it took nine months and two actual human being growing inside of my body to accomplish, I've Continue Reading
End the Bad Weather Blues with an Endless Ocean Giveaway
I am looking out my window right now and perhaps the only word that comes to mind is "YUCK!" Or something that rhymes with yuck, that I won't type, this being a family-centered site and all. But seriously -- it's not even snowing. It's SLUSHING. And I don't care if that's a word or not. That's Continue Reading
Book Giveaway: The Winners
Congrats to Heidi and Rebecca! You've each won a copy of See Mom Run, with essays by Mom 101, NYC Single Mama, Twinfatuation, Role Mommy, Momma Said, me(!) and many more. Didn't win but still want to read it? Buy it, why dontcha? Just click on the little book icon just over there on the right, Continue Reading
Book Giveaway: See Mom Run
Have you ever wondered what would happen if two hyphenated last namers got married? Like, let's say Harrison VonHarrison-Lundquist married Muffy Worcester-Wolfe. (All names are completely fabricated. If anyone out there has either of those names, I'm sorry...in so many ways.) Would they name their Continue Reading
Wii Fit Plus Winner
First of all, let me tell you: you guys like your sweets. I asked you to write a comment with your worst holiday indulgence and I think I gained ten pounds just reading them. Lots of people said fudge, and Christmas cookies. But some people really let it all hang out. Like Moonlighting Mama, who Continue Reading