Did you know that BBC online offered free language lessons?  Find out more about this, and 22 other things and services that you can get for free from this article.  The article is from the Real Simple magazine.  more...

If your house is anything like our house, we have too much candy!  With 6 of the 7 kids Trick or Treating, you can only imagine how much candy we have, and the sad part is that we only went down a few small streets.  more...

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.  more...

Homemade Laundry Soap 1 cup Borax 1 cup Arm and Hammer Washing SODA (NOT BAKING SODA)1 bar of Ivory soap (you can really use whatever brand you prefer, I like Ivory for our skin allergies)  SO, all you do is chop up  more...

Looking for some ideas for summer reading?  Here's a cool list of the Top 100 books about New England or written by local authors.  It's kind of neat to know that so many great writers live right here in  more...

This website shows easy, step by step directions to draw so many characters and animals. It is so easy, even I can do it! They have polar bears, genies, Jimmy Neutron, robots, helicopters, Hello Kitty, monkeys and so much  more...

Without fail, we all usually return from our fall apple-picking outings with a little too much of a good thing. That translates into lots of special apple recipes, from baked apples to apple pie, and my kids'  more...