Well, sort of. The account @angelinajolie is locked and not accepting followers. But we can still speculate what Jolie would tweet, can’t we?

Someone asked if @bradpitt and me were really like Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Yes, only we have more money.

Just adopted another Asian baby. #gottacatchemall

Tried to convince @bradpitt to be a SAHD. Then he reminded me how much better Benjamin Button was than Salt. LOL good point!

@billybobthornton I’m sorry, have we met?

Or maybe not. Do you follow any celebrity parents on Twitter? Are you following @life360?

I’ve always believed the saying “kids don’t understand the value of a dollar,” but turns out they think it’s worth way more than it is. And just FYI, LeBron James’s new contract with the Miami Heat was for $110 million.

“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”

I believe in fairies. And I’m not ashamed to admit it. I mean, I don’t go around telling people that, but between you and I, I do.

For a story about fairies, flying, magical places beyond the stars, and little boys who won’t grow up, Peter Pan is one of the most relatable stories ever written. As children we shout that we believe in fairies, we dream about what it would be like to fly to Neverland, and we keep an ever-watchful eye for pirates.

But then we grow up, and the magic is lost somehow. Until we have our own children. And then, just as Wendy says goodbye to Peter in the end, the magic returns and the story only begins again with our own child.

Yesterday my own two darling children and I hopped on the train to San Francisco, a magical place in itself, to see the live production of Peter Pan at the Threesixty Theater. I knew it would be special, but I had no idea it would be the most amazing live theater experience I’d ever seen.

My heart began to race when we saw the real Wendy, John, and Michael fly through the air above us along with Peter and Tinkerbell. I looked over at my kids and both of them were sitting there with smiles on their faces and pixie dust in their eyes.

They were mesmerized.

And later when we all shouted that we believed in fairies so that we could save Tink’s life, I felt myself start to cry.

Sometimes as adults, the stress of life can be overwhelming. And the magic of childhood is only a distant memory, if we remember it all. But in that moment as I watched Tink light back up, I remembered. I remembered what it was like to believe in fairies, and I remembered that magic still exists.

And in the last moments of the show, as Peter Pan smiled at Wendy’s girl Jane, for a moment I looked up and thought maybe somewhere there really is Neverland. Just maybe…

But lucky for us the magic did not end there. Thanks to a very generous invitation from SHNSF we were able to meet up with some of my favorite local bloggers and meet the cast of the show. All of them were so unbelievably sweet to my kids, only reinforcing the magic of the day.

I love the theater. I love classic books. And I love taking my kids on magical journeys to places like Neverland. And I love that my kids think Pixie Dust is real and that fairies are never far away. And I won’t ever be the one to tell them otherwise.

“And because Peter never grew up, when Jane had her own children, they flew away with Peter too, and so it will always be, as long as there are children.”

Thanks so much to cast and crew of Peter Pan in San Francisco for an amazing day. Also big thanks to SHNSF for putting together this event and allowing my kids and I to be a part of it.

Though SHNSF provided tickets to the show I was under no obligation to write this post or in any other way compensated for it. This is a cross-post from Meg’s Idle Chatter.

There’s a lot to like about Inception, the newest blockbusting thriller from director Christopher Nolan of The Dark Knight fame. It broadly succeeds as an action movie and a psychological drama, packed tight with suspense, special effects, and terrific performances, all of which is packaged in a thought-provoking if not entirely consistent plot.

The story itself should pose few obstacles to adult’s enjoyment of the film, that is unless they bring children along, mostly because youngsters will be asking questions throughout the movie like: “What’s going on?” and “Is this a dream now? Still?”

The good news is usually the answer is yes… probably. The idea behind Inception is a fairly simple one. In the corporation-dominated world of the film, technology allows people’s minds to be invaded through their dreams. There’s an app for it. Actually it’s a machine you hook them up to, but that’s not super important. What does matter is that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Cobb has been leading crack teams—made up of architects, thieves, and chemists—into people’s minds at the behest of business rivals, in order to steal corporate secrets.

Now he’s been hired to do something more dangerous: plant an idea, a process known as inception (get it?). It’s not as easy as it sounds. You have to do it in a dream, within a dream, within a dream—and sometimes delve even further. Therein lies much of the movie’s potential for confusion, and also plenty of its suspense and thrills, much of which will be lost on younger audiences, who will struggle to wrap their mind around the wider narrative.

Violence: What won’t be lost is some of the violence. Cobb’s dead wife, played by Marion Cotillard, constantly tries to thwart his dream missions, often in creepy ways that involve stabbings, or worse, the threat of stabbing. There’s a hunk of fairly standard action—one of the dream sequences is positively Bond-esque—and one character perpetually bleeds through his shirt after getting shot, but that’s about as gory as it gets, even during the film’s two depictions of suicide (one in a dream, one real). Ultimately it’s the intensity of Cotillard’s performance, not the action, which could cause nightmares.

Language: Outside the violence, there’s not much that extends beyond the bounds of PG-13. If there is strong language, it’s disguised by explosions or car chases and never makes it on to your ears.

Sexuality: In fact, if it weren’t for the moments of blow ‘em up action, the movie could be described as downright classy. A few kisses are as scandalous as things get and the film’s stars stay fully and very smartly dressed.

Is Inception a great movie? That depends on whether you thought The Dark Knight was 2008’s best film. I did not, but I do believe Inception, like Nolan’s last project, is a very good movie, just not for kids. A mature 11 or 12 year old could probably handle and appreciate it, but it’s geared teens and adults who are ready to explore ideas about what truly makes a dream a dream.

OM NOM NOM NOM. For freedom.

What other funny videos have you seen on YouTube recently?

Here’s a neat site: I Write Like, which lets you compare your writing — based on a statistical analysis — to famous writers of past and present. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but it’s always fun to see who it compares you to. Me? I plugged in this very blog post and it says I write like David Foster Wallace. I’m so hip.

Apparently it’s parks week at Life360 Now. I stumbled across this randomly and felt like it was too pretty not to share.

Here’s a fun chart: Who Tall Are You, which lets you compare your height to famous people throughout history and modern day celebrities. Nice, I’m just slightly taller than Kate Moss. IN YOUR FACE KATE MOSS!!

Here’s a handy site that inches to centimeters.

Full chart after the jump.

Future Gordon Gecko right there.

From MomLogic.

Babble has assembled an epic list of the 50 best iPhone apps for moms (and dads), ranked and separated in five different categories, ranging from health and fitness to cooking. So what topped the list?

Grocery Gadget, which comes at an affordable $4.99, lets you manage your grocery list through both your iPhone and the Grocery Gadgets website. You can even scan the barcode with your phone’s camera!

In second place was How to Cook Everything, based on the Mark Bittman cookbook of the same name. This one is a personal favorite of mine, and while I think the app’s design is a little clumsy in places, the fact that you can get one of the best cookbooks out there (and more) for the price of $4.99 is amazing. It even lets you automatically start a grocery list, based on what recipe you choose.

Safe Browser took third place. It’s an alternative version of MobileSafari for your iPhone which restricts and monitors what sites kids are accessing, which is perfect when you let them surf while you’re not watching them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop them from sending annoying text messages to your contacts.

And might I add to that list the Life360 Sex Offender Monitor iPhone app? Then again, I might be a little biased…

What iPhone apps do you find indispensable as a parent?

See the rest of the list at Babble.