Toymaker, Playskool, is pushing their giant size dinosaur as the perfect gift for your child this Christmas. Only $250.00! It is big enough that you can sit on it. It also plays music (at $250.00 it better do something extra!).
I have to ask myself just [...]
Unless you’ve been purposefully avoiding downtown, you should have noticed that the Christmas…er…”holiday” lights have been up for a while already. Just recently some little conifers in wooden planters appeared along the sidewalks, each one' [...]

Faith-Family Film Rview: A Christmas Carol
by Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
A Christmas Carol—Lavish, well-crafted but frequently eerie 3-D animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic 1843 novella in which miserly misanthrope Ebenezer Scrooge (voice of Jim Carrey) is urged to change his ways by [...]

By Erika Weisensee
Milwaukie writing mom
You’ve probably noticed it, too. The stores are already promoting Christmas and we are barely into November. This seems to happen earlier every year. Sadly, for many women, the holiday season is synonymous with stress—a time that requires decorating, baking, buying, [...]