Cars Movie Cake
September 20, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Cooking, Food and Drinks
I have never purchased a birthday cake for my children. In past years, I was fortunate enough to use my mom’s cake decorating skills to get fabulous cakes. Last year was one of those times.
My son wanted a Lightning McQueen cake for his birthday. I looked around in the stores and tried to figure out what I was going to do. Then I decided to buy the car figurines from the toy section. At $12 for three cars, I thought it was a bit pricey but it was cheaper than buying a cake and then at least he would have …read more
Two Free Resources for Movie Reviews
April 16, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Entertainment, family
As a parent, I am concerned about the movies my children watch. I don’t have the time to screen each movie before they watch it, but I want to make sure what they’re watching is clean. I don’t want to be surprised by inappropriate language or sexual content.
Thanks to free resources such as Plugged -In Online and Kids-in-Mind, you can quickly check out a movie’s sexual content, violence, language, drug use, and more. Just this week a relative came over and wanted to know if my kids could watch Marley & Me. I said, “No way!” I pulled up Plugged In Online …read more
