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Healthy Lunch Ideas: Tips to Build a Better Lunchbox

Stuck in a lunch rut? Jennifer Tyler Lee, award-winning author of The 52 New Foods Challenge, shares simple tips to give your lunch boxes a boost. Back to school means back to packing lunches. With busy schedules and tired kids, it’s easy to rely on the same few lunch dishes and snacks that always deliver.…

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Build Roller Coasters With K’Nex Thrill Ride Sets

When your family goes to an amusement park, do your kids make a beeline for the highest, loopiest, most hfastest roller coasters they can find?For little ones who love to throw their hands up and enjoy the ride, K’Nex has a line of building sets that will spark their imaginations while giving them a hands-on lesson in construction and architecture.The K’Nex Thrill Ride Roller Coaster Building Sets include motors to blast …

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Building a House From the Ground Up

My husband and I have been talking forever about building a house from scratch. We bought the house were in now twelve years ago, before we had children. Its a great house, and its served us well, but weve outgrown it.

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The Tooth Fairy Has Left the Building!

Finally, my role as the Tooth Fairy has come to an end! My youngest child lost her last tooth yesterday! As usual, I was entertaining a small gathering of friends and family. Upon sipping my second glass of Merlot, my sister nudged me and reminded me not to forget to leave money under my daughters pillow and to retrieve the tooth. Oh please, I would never forget such a significant event! After everyone left, I tidied up a bit. I was tired but remembered I had one last task to attend to before I stumbled off to bed: Get the tooth, leave some money — easy enough!