The only time my kids had ever seen Beauty and the Beast was on an iPad. A tiny little screen with questionable audio. So I jumped at the chance to take them to a screening of the film, on a big screen with real surround sound, in 3D. I, personally, can care less about the 3D element Disney insists on inserting into old movies and I wish they would stop.

Produce new movies in 3D — if you must! — but leave the old movies as they were.

And, as it turned out, what I really loved about Beauty and the Beast 3D was not even in the movie at all ...

Yvette Prieto, 32, might just get the award for luckiest woman of the week. Why, you ask? Well, last weekend Michael Jordan, 48, proposed (think he was on bended knee?) to the absolutely stunning Cuban-American model. Hmmm, let me revise my beginning ... Michael Jordan is pretty damn lucky as well.

Listen, I know Michael Jordan, retired basketball superstar, can get tons of women, but -- a gazillionaire or not -- finding someone you want to be with for the rest of your life isn't an easy thing.

Grandma DottieGrandmas cook. It's what they do. Well, a lot of them anyway. Not my mother — my kids have a grandmother that could burn a pot of boiling water. But that's an entirely different story.

Usually grandmas cook, and though not all of them are amazing cooks, the love that goes into their preparation outweighs the terribly bad slightly "off" meal every now and again. And a lot of grandmas have their dish. You know the one ... the one the grandkids clamor for.

But as children and grandchildren get older, they figure out how to cook and may just try to move in on grandma's territory, especially around the holidays. This is exactly what happened with my husband, when he was 22. And it could have really been a disaster!