Note to parents: Never store singing stuffed animals in the basement without taking the batteries out of their bellies first. It’s a lesson I learned the hard way—four times over. I thought I was doing myself a favor by placing my six-year-old’s battery-powered toys in storage after she lost interest in them. I threw them in a large plastic storage bin and went about life. However, my battery removal oversight came back to haunt me right before Christmas when I was looking for missing tree ornaments and stumbled upon the bin with the electronic toys. Rather than finding the ornaments … Continue reading →