Checkers is an underrated game. Am I right? It's relatively easy to learn, can be played with varying levels of strategy, and if you make this carpet version, it's quiet as all get out.

Fresh Changing Station 

• $60 (pre-order)
• Giggle

I've often wondered why changing pads for babies were cloth instead of something easier to clean if there's a diaper mishap. Boon has addressed this issue with their ultra modern Fresh changing station with a removable foam pad. Bonus: a toy hook.

Saw this yesterday from the East Side Drive. What? I've done that and couldn't disagree more (but it DID get my attention)... What do you think?

Name: Little Pilot, 2
Location: Toronto, Canada

Our two year-old, Little Pilot, loves his lawn mower. It goes on walks with us and he even pushes it around in the winter. When we asked him what type of birthday party he wanted, he naturally responded with "leikkuri" (Finnish for lawn mower). So we threw him a lawn mower party!

You've probably come across companies that turn kids' drawings into stuffed toys or other products. They look fantastic and clearly they are professionals. Here are a few of my favorites including a few you can do yourself at home. 

All month long, we've been sharing wonderful, gardening-based projects from public school teachers and students and asking you to help make them a reality. Today is the final day of our program - we hope you'll join in and now is the perfect day to do so: any donation you make through our project page today is magically DOUBLED. Read on and help us make some gardens grow today!

Before sending your scraps to the trash or the compost heap, consider taking on this experiment in the kitchen...

There's a baby coming! Quick—decorate! I have always loved the re-stickable stickers for walls, because they won't harm your paint, are removable and can take up as little or as much space as you would like.

With so much baby-on-the-way advice floating around these days, I was surprised, when we brought our daughter home from the hospital, at how little I had been prepared for the day-to-day of having a baby in our home. We found that our home's furniture layout, and even some design elements, actually made getting through the day with a baby a little more difficult. Here's some Baby-Friendly Decorating 101: simple ways to approach your home's design that I wish had been brought to my attention before my daughter was born.