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1 week ago | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Shiri Sondheimer
Easter baskets were not something I grew up with in the UK. We didn’t hunt eggs in the Midlands in the 1980s. And while we did consume a vast quantity of oversized chocolate eggs, it wasn’t until I married an American that Easter became an extravaganza!Before the pandemic we would travel to a church or community center and scramble with 200 other children to collect plastic eggs in a wide variety of colors, filled with a wide variety of candy.
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2 months ago | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Ariane Coffin |Sarah Pinault |Patricia Vollmer
“Science Adventures” are short informational articles you can share with your kids! Read them aloud, look up words your kids don’t know, and dig deeper on topics that spark their interest at your local library or the internet. Today we’re learning about snowflakes!Today was an awfully snowy day where I live, and it made me think about snow itself. What makes snow…well, snow? Why do snowflakes look the way they do? What is snow? Snow is frozen water.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Lisa Tate |Corrina Lawson
I did not have an introduction to Korean folklore on my 2025 Bingo list, but I am glad I got to check that box off. In The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang, we join young Serin on her journey through the mythical market, where Dokkaebi guide her through their fantastical realm as she searches for a better future for herself. Serin is lonely. The kind of lonely that haunts your steps, that you carry around with you like a heavy package.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Rebecca Angel |Karen Walsh
Lauren Bear debuted her first novel, Medusa’s Sisters, in 2023, a tale of Greek Mythology focusing on the sisters of Medusa and their relationship to the world and gods around them. It was evocative, compelling, and simply stunning. Bear has a wonderful capacity to take sidelined women and fully draw out their characters in an evocative Greek Myth that stands on its own two feet, outshining their more famous male co-characters.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Karen Walsh |Marziah Karch |Lisa Tate
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the GeekHouse, everyone was playing their favorite game. It will be a little while before the 2024 GeekDad Game of the Year is announced so, in the meantime, here’s a selection of some of our current favorite games to share with your friends and family this holiday season. Disclosure: Some of the links below may be affiliate links.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Lisa Tate |Natania Barron |Rebecca Angel
I have always loved a fairy story. From the Flower Fairies I played with in my childhood, to the Bat Boys that occupy my middle age novels, something about the otherness of the fairy world has long lingered in my imagination. A parallel world, with similarities but so many differences. A shared world with a shared history. The ways in which the fairy stories of the past interact with the modern tales we tell ourselves. There is nothing like a good fairy story.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Ruth Suehle |Sarah Pinault
Whether or not you celebrate Thanksgiving, you have to notice there seems to be a lack of distinct music for this holiday. Churchgoers are always hearing the hymn “We Gather Together,” and then there’s Adam Sandler’s ditty that came out in 1992 as part of this Weekend Update bit for Saturday Night Live. Remember, it’s SNL, so there are some not-so-family-friendly references:Yet it seems at Thanksgiving many people are already tuning into holiday and Christmas music before dessert is even served.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Karen Walsh |Sarah Pinault
“I’m the swine you love to hate.”“When isolation leads to madness, a revolution of the masses.”For this smoking volcano of Xennial feminist rage, music both fuels the fire and calms the spirit. Coming to adulthood in the late 1990s meant the music that raised me included artists like Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, Hole, and Garbage.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Sarah Pinault |Sophie Brown |Corrina Lawson
Dragons love two things: Sleeping on huge piles of treasure, and eating delicious treats… Especially cupcakes! Frosted… Chocolate… Cupcakes…I love a fun game that I can play with my family, and I love it all the more if there is cute artwork. Cupcake Dragon is exactly that sort of game, where players compete to see who can entice a dragon to come live in and protect their village.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Sarah Pinault |Dakster Sullivan |Marziah Karch
With three kids in the house for over a decade now, we are always looking for engaging and exciting entertainment options. Screens being ubiquitous in every area of their lives, it’s always nice to find something that engages them without the need for a screen. For the past two months my daughter has carried her StoryPhones around with her on every early bedtime, road trip, and trip to the grocery store.
