Please, somebody explain it to me...

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You all know that I'm a mother of two very fun and rambunctious boys. This also mean lots of scraped knees, dirty socks, soccer and football memorabilia and legos spread everywhere in a thin layer no matter how much I try to fight it.

I don't really have anything pink in the house (other than a pair of glorious rocking heels and a couple of shirts strictly on my side of the closet). We also don't have dolls (yet!) and I know very little about them, honestly.

The other day somebody posted on local Facebook classifieds an American Girl Doll for sale. It's a 2013 retired version that comes with an extra outfit, a hat and a helmet. All this for a mere $275... $275 for a doll?? I mean, it's a cute doll and all but seriously? That's like most of our grocery budget for a month or a third of our mortgage.

What am I missing? What's the deal with these dolls that they are so stinking expensive? I mean, there are tons of cute dolls in Walmart or Toys R Us that are a fracture of the price. Any moms of girls, can you enlighten me, please? :) Thank you :)

Guess, what my 1st grader is addicted to?

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In a week or so my 1st grader will have his 100th day of school. So their teacher gave them an assignment to create a project that includes 100 items arranged in tens of the same objects. She also encouraged them to come up with their own idea for the project. Guess, what my kiddo came up with (and what I spent a good chunk of my day over the weekend, helping him print, and cut, and glue!)??

As you can see, my 7-year old is a little addicted to his new Skylanders Swapforce game for Wii that he got for Christmas. I really limit his time spent playing video games but he's surely at this age that he's getting more and more interested in all kinds of gaming "monstrosities" :)

But at least we had a great time working on his project together while sharing quite a few laughs. The moments like this make life worth living and truly special...