Dakster Sullivan is super excited this week for the grand opening of Legoland Florida's new Star Wars Miniland. Her husband is all set to serve the Empire and the Rebel Alliance for the event. In addition to the troop on Friday, her family is also attending the opening of Gaylord Palms ICE! experience. Maybe this year she will brave the ice slides herself.

This week Kathy Ceceri enjoyed talking with Nicole Wakelin and Natania Barron about the new Geek Mom book for the GeekMom podcast. And she's always excited to see other people trying out her crafts and experiments on the internet, like this video by MAKE writer Chris Connors showing his version of the Robot Hand from her kids' Robotics activity book. This weekend she's looking forward to her first-ever writers' retreat!

Laura should be inaccessibly deep in research for her book right now, instead she's in confession mode. She's writing about letting her teenager meet up with adults he met online, about why she insists on keeping a landline phones, and how a no-tech object has turned her kids into word geeks. Someone tell her enough already, get back to work.

Ariane finally received her Halo 4 delivery at 7pm last night, she was starting to get nervous it wouldn't come at all. She gladly ignored the election hubbub for a few hours with Master Chief! She is loving – and rocking – the new decoy ability.

Kelly Knox is taking her preschooler to her first big concert to see The Fresh Beat Band this weekend. Kelly pretends to dread it, but in reality she'll be belting out Just Like a Rock Star along with her daughter in the stands.

Mandy will be spending the weekend working on her novel for NaNoWriMo. She also hopes there will be some time to relax and work on the cross stitch Christmas stocking for her daughter.