Bella Sara

I'm assuming all of you readers out there have kids. Right? Why else read me? So as you all know, kids have eyes where we have none. I can walk across a parking lot, a store, a room and through my eyes the floors will be, while not sparkling clean, devoid of interesting objects. A child, yours, mine, it doesn't matter, will spot a million-and-one different, interesting objects. The smaller the child, the smaller the object, the quicker the hand and the quicker we are.

No sense choking over a small object we've never seen before.

However, this isn't about one of those small, chokeable objects. And it isn't about a tiny child. This is about my six-year-old daughter, walking across a parking lot and spying some wonderful cards laying half-buried under a car. Before I could say "peep" she'd jumped down, thrown her body on the floor and grabbed the cards. Holding on for dear life to a new treasure that was hers.

I'm not usually one to be bullied by my kids, or one to let them play with dirty stuff they find on the ground, but I like unicorns too and this was a very shiny card. Shiny = clean. Right? So home the cards came.

By now you've guessed that these were Bella Sara cards. I can not say enough good things about Bella Sara cards. Bella Sara cards are for girls. They are for girls like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards are for boys (and Magic cards are for adults, but this is for kids so no Magic adoration here). Bella Sara was especially developed to send a positive message to girls, something sadly lacking in so many of todays toys for girls (forget Barbie, Bratz anyone?). Each card comes with a positive message for the girl as well as an online activation code that allows girls to go online in a safe and loving environment to "play" with her new friend.

There is no chat. There is no trading. It is just horses and rainbows and tons of pink. Daughter just loves it, and as an added bonus, it has improved her slightly dismal reading skills.