Gift Wrapping For Geeks: 101 | Our “Key to Christmas” – We’re making a list….

We have come up with a fantastically geeky way to keep Christmas presents sorted this year!  We also think it's going to be a huge "peeking" deterrent since they'll have no way of knowing which gift belongs to which kiddo! Check out our system. We've put all of our kiddos gifts in Google Docs. (Gifts have been blurred for several reasons, but the main one is because Kylie is sneaky and she reads my blog when she gets on the computer, because she thinks I'm going to slip and post what she's getting!!) Then, as we wrap each gift, we WILL NOT BE PUTTING…
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I never would have guessed some of these video game statistics!

Where does your family fall in these video game categories?  We're raising a family of gamer geeks (check the link for my post on this), but I never would have guessed that more people play the Wii than other consoles!   I think the #1 selling game (look at the bottom of the graphic) is only because it's the game that comes (or used to come) with the console!  What do you think? via  
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We’re Raising Gamer Geeks!

Braxton's "Call of Duty Kingdom" LEGO Star Wars | Call of Duty: Black Ops | LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars Braxton: Mom, come look at my kingdom.  It's for my Call of Duty thing. There's some blasters and guns on it for the Wookies and Clones and Jedis.   They're gonna battle the Call of Duty guys.  This is the kingdom I'm making for their protection.  Hawk is making one for the other guys. Sadly, they never really grow out of it.  Where do you think they learned all of this stuff? Please let this baby be a…
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A briefcase for dad? Nope, for the 6 year old!

For Christmas, this year, my 6 year old will be getting a briefcase.  Yes, you read that correctly - a briefcase. No, he's not a 6 year old super geek (like his daddy), but I can say that he's one of those kids that sees something that he dubs cool in his mind, and he sticks with it. What can POSSIBLY be cool about a briefcase, you ask?  Briefcases double as gun cases, didn't you know!? (more…)
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