On My Mind

The Joy of a Child’s Big Day!

May 16, 2013

I was selected for this opportunity and compensated by Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats. The content and opinions expressed here are all my own. When you have kids, some days are just bigger than others. Like the day your youngest daughter decides that she’s brave enough to dive (not just jump!) off the high board at the [...]

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Parenting Dilemma: Do You Drag Your Kids Along With You or Do You Leave Them Home Alone?

May 14, 2013

When you have six kids and they participate in so many different after school activities, you spend a good deal of your time just playing “Mom–Chauffeur”. Now when the kids are younger- there’s really no dilemma at all. No matter which kid has soccer practice, swimming lessons. speech therapy, or a dentist appointment- all of [...]

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It’s Spring- A Time for Beauty and A Time for Misery {Yep-We Have Allergies!}

May 7, 2013

I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® and ALLEGRA® But as always, all opinions expressed here are my own! #cbias #SocialFabric I get a complete thrill of watching Spring descend upon us here in the [...]

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Attention Dads: Some Tips on How to Shower Your Wife With Love, This Mother’s Day!

May 2, 2013

Attention all Dads…… I just wanted to make sure that you were “in the loop”… and fully aware of the fact that Mother’s Day is Sunday May 12th. Which means there are only 10 shopping days left! And really- you only have this full weekend to get it done. Okay? Because we all know that [...]

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To the Teachers in My life Right Now… Thank You

April 30, 2013

For some kids, school comes easy. I know, because I was one of those kids way back when I was a student (oh so long ago- in the Ice Age- back before there was the Internet and we actually had to go to the library and look things up in the card catalog to find [...]

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All Kinds of Surprises!

March 13, 2013

Last week my son Spencer had a district orchestra concert where he was going to travel from one elementary school to the another school, performing at each. Since he’s a bass player he was fortunate in that he didn’t need to worry about carrying his monstrous-sized instrument from school to school because they were going [...]

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Til Death (Or a New Job) Do Us Part…..

March 7, 2013

For better, for worse… in sickness and in health… forsaking all others…. til death do us part. Or…. until one of you gets new job that causes you to work untold hours away from home, leaving the other person to pick up the slack and take over the jobs around the house you haven’t done [...]

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Shit I Bought From Infomercials!

February 22, 2013

My friend Annie from Mama Dweeb posted a question to her Facebook page the other night asking if anyone had ever been sucked into buying something based on a commercial….. Um, yeah. But even more than a plain-old-run-of-the-mill commercial…. it’s the infomercials that get me to open up my wallet! Bare Minerals So I first [...]

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Teaching Kids to Care for Their Heart

February 6, 2013

We’ve been spending a lot of time at the dinner table lately talking about what is healthy and what isn’t healthy, and how to eat a balanced meal of good foods that provide energy for the body. I’ve been teaching them to identify a protein, a fruit, a veggie, and I’ve been explaining what “carbs” [...]

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