Epinions Recent Reviews for bodashe

A Stroller for the Small Percentage of People with Only Two Hands

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:04:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - In the past, I’ve maintained a healthy dislike of strollers. I have preferred instead to carry my tyke. In my mind, strollers, like umbrellas, have the same issue – by the time you’ve unfolded them, gotten yourself situated, and started...

Rubbermaid’s New Math: 10 = A Dozen?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:04:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - It’s a bedeviling problem. How to get your (not mine) prize-winnin’ deviled eggs to the fair without mashing the hell out of them. Rubbermaid’s fixed the problem – sort of.And the angel Rubbermaid spaketh and...

Angel Guard – Because Car Seats Can Kill Babies

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:48:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - “This ain’t my first rodeo.” That’s what I’ve kept telling myself the last two years. Along with two school-age children, I also currently have three children fifteen-months-old and younger. Yep. You read it correctly. Yes,...

Milk goes in, but doesn’t come out – no matter what…

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:52:17 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - I have never known a child more difficult to feed than my three month old, Caty. 100% breast isn’t getting it. I’m tired of trips to the hospital for dehydration. I constantly smell bad because of formula with cereal coming back up again. I’m lookin’ for...

The Road to Redemption?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:46:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - I’ve been trying to take better care of my family’s teeth. With the exception of my ten-year-old daughter, Little Miss No Cavities, we are not what you’d call the model of perfect oral hygiene. Well, those days are passing away as I get more...

Ew! Mark Edward, you’ve got spider sheet all over your bed!

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:29:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Like most six-year-olds, The Boy is hot and heavy into Spider-Man. For all intents and purposes, he may as well be Spider-Man. He even climbs walls (and drives me up a few). The problem is he doesn’t wake up to make it to the bathroom...

For ages six months and under, shoot it straight into the mainline.

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:08:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - I’m not going to get into the argument. My ten-year-old has a referral to a neuropsychologist. I feel the immunization debate deeply and have guilt. However, I will immunize my new baby, largely based on one statement from my kids’ pediatrician,...

Stupid toy. It didn’t guess “consumer-based review website.”

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:37:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Someone Who Loves Me has a great family. They recently put on a treasure hunt and close to fifty people trekked all over Navy Point park, deciphering clues, getting blisters, getting rained on, getting fed, and having a great time. Only one of my...

My two-month-old don’t like iced tea! Bless her little heart...

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:33:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Whenever I give my two-month-old iced tea, she gets all fussy and starts spittin’ up and stuff. She doesn’t want to go to sleep and just cries and wails pitifully. Every single time! I’m startin’ to believe she might not like iced tea!...

A diaper for my bra!

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:40:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Ah, the joys of new motherhood… That new baby smell (poop, spit-up, farts). The wonder of bonding (with a baby that won’t let go of your breast or sleep if not in your arms). Marveling at baby’s perfect skin (ignoring the blemishes because...

Everybody, everybody, everybody livin' now / Everybody, everybody, everybody dies.*

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:14:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Another movie to add to my list of I-didn’t-want-to-see-it-but-I’
m-glad-I-did
is 2007’s The Bucket List (PG-13). I figured that with Jack (Nicholson) and Morgan Freeman it would be a good flick, but I underestimated how good. Edward Cole (Jack)...

Aw, man… Where to start?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:07:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - I had read some Robin McKinley when I was much younger, but nothing I’d read to date prepared me for Deerskin (1993). The McKinley I remembered told of bold heroines and weaved intricate plots. Not so with this paperweight. Deerskin...

Cookie Karaoke?

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:47:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - I took Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? from the library. I admit it. Whatcha gonna do about it? My six-year-old son, Mark Edward, checked out yet another Kindergarten favorite from the library. Written by Bonnie Lass (a pen name if I...

I’ma goin’ back to Ghetto-Mart to get my $25.00 back.

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:05:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - The Fiesta of Five Flags. Pensacola, Florida’s annual way of saying, "We exist." For a few months activities abound, including a treasure hunt, balls, and of course that old Gulf Coast tradition, parades with “throws.” It’s my...

Give Me A Hanky...

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:34:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - My six-year-old, Mark Edward, reads pretty well, for all that his Kindergarten citizenship card shows to the contrary behavior-wise. This spring, I let him have his own public library card. On the last trip to the library, he checked out a book he...

What can I say? It’s all about vanity. It matched my truck.

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 18:11:32 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Last spring I got a new-to-me SUV to replace the old-soldier SUV. I stole a red with charcoal interior two-door 1998 Chevy Blazer. I was tired of trading a heavy, full-back booster back-and-forth with my son’s father and since the new SUV had head...

It’s good, but I feel like I’m just feeding them Pringles and Cheetos.

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:26:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Before I found and, for all intents and purposes, fell in love with our current brand of bird food, I fed my Parakeets Hartz Bonanza Parakeet Gourmet Diet. Hartz Bonanza is chock full of shelled nuts, veggies, fruits, pellet thingys,...

Not even the birds like to eat their greens…

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:30:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Evahbody gotta eat da greens. Mommas, kids, Daddies, doggies, kitties, and birdies. It keeps ya healthy, strong, and happy. Yeah, right. Meet three exceptions to the “no desert without first eating your greens” rule. My Parakeets, Blue Bird...

Lock, Shock, and Barrel (well, Barrel post mortem) dig ‘em!

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:52:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Three days before Christmas 2005, I was gifted three Parakeets from a very nice lady on Freecycle. My daughter promptly named them Lock, Shock, and Barrel from the movie...

A Mouse Fit For A Bug or A Mouse That Fits Bugs Hand or...

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:56:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - In addition to a bicycle, my child(ren) got a brand-new, completely used, frankensteined-together personal computer. Because my four-year-old son doesn’t live with me full-time, the computer was...

Raising hell on the road to nowhere – ‘cept maybe Orange County.

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:08:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - My seven-year-old daughter, Edie, wanted a bike. She was tired of riding around with her knees hitting her ears on her sixteen-inch, pink and purple, glittery, girly-girl bicycle. Christmas 2004 came and went and the only thing that even resembled a...

Bug in a Rug. An AR book for Bug that's buggy and has bugs.

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:31:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - My nine-year-old daughter, Edie, has had a nickname since birth – EdieBug. Consequently, anything to do with bugs generally catches her attention. So, I wasn’t real surprised when she brought home from the school library a book titled Bug in a...

One must teach the children what makes a particular drug preferable over another.

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:30:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - Ah, the joys of parenting small children! This fun period of Life includes, but is in no way limited to, ear infections, muscle pain after immunizations, scary high mystery fevers, joint pain after growth spurts, losing teeth (whether naturally or in an...

The Nightmare Before Edie's Birthday, er, Christmas 3D, Made Real!

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:41:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - It’s not like I had anything better to do. My daughter’s birthday was imminently looming. It was Fall Break – the kids were out of school. My house was a major disaster from having packed half the apartment in anticipation of an upcoming...

What are the odds a chick named Pinkney writes a learn-your-colors book?

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:30:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bodashe - God bless Escambia County, Florida. The courthouse loses 50% of all divorce paperwork filed. Your Child can be Left Behind if you’re in a Title I school (no tutoring available). A lot of infrastructure still hasn’t been rebuilt since...