Sometimes it’s easy to find a playdate. And other times, you’re suffering from mom-of-a-newborn brain mush and you just need to play with yourself.

Minds out of the gutter, people. What I'm trying to tell you here is that I searched and searched for a recommendable playdate for y'alls, and just couldn't. I have blogs I love, oh yes I have blogs aplenty, but you probably already read them.

So here's what I intend to share with you: FreeRice.

This is a win-win. You get to feel smart, and you get to donate rice to the United Naitons World Food Program. Here's how it works: You play a vocabulary game, and for every word you get right, the site's advertisers donate money equibvalent to 20grians of rice  to the World Food Program.

It starts you off with easy words and then ramps it up if you have mad vocab skills. Which I do, despite the use of the word "recommendable" up there. If, like me, youre suffering from major sleep deprivation and "mom brain" it serves as a nice reminder you have both an intellect and a social conscience you may actually someday access again, and if you just like to do charity or flex your smarts you can do that too.

And hey, there is a parenting angle. The guy who started it was apparently inspired by doing SAT drills with his kids.