Kids LiveWell from the National Restaurant Association @KidsLiveWell

Kids LiveWell Splash

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a dinner sponsored by the Kids LiveWell program from the National Restaurant Association. Those of you who read my blog or follow me on Twitter know that I am pretty lucky when it comes to my children and their eating habits. My two oldest children love to [...]

Spring Cleaning with the Digital Joneses – Ending Digital Clutter #DigitalJoneses #TrendMicro

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Spring is here! In my house that means Spring cleaning. This year we are cleaning our digital house as well as the house we live in. Doesn’t that just sound like a novel concept? It never really occurred to me to clean house digitally but it is certainly something that I needed to do. Check [...]

Online Safety and Kids #DigitalJoneses #TrendMicro

Trend Micro Online Safety Discussions with Kids

Last month, I shared the fabulous news about my family and the new project that we are working on: We are a Digital Joneses Family! What’s Your Security IQ? I even linked to an online security quiz that you could take and if you haven’t yet, I highly recommend it.   This month we are [...]

Live a Little: They Had Me at Mama

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I had posts to write. Lots of them. Bills to pay. Lots of those too. There were lots of things that needed to be done around the house. Laundry. Rooms to clean. Beds to make. Bathrooms to clean. I was already running a little late for carpool. What else is new, right? I picked up [...]

Nine and a Million

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It doesn’t seem like it was nine years ago when you rushed into this world. You were early. That would be the last time you were ever early for anything else. You came into this world six weeks early, in fact. You weighed just over four pounds. I wasn’t ready. You didn’t care. My water [...]

7 Tips for Getting My Kids to Eat Healthy Food #horizonback2school @horizon

As a parent, getting my kids to eat healthy food is something that I struggle with on a daily basis. I am pretty lucky for the most part in that my kids LOVE fruits. They LOVE vegetables. And although they love soda, they know that it is not the best choice for them so they [...]

The Orange Shoes

Orange Shoes

We didn’t have a lot of money when I was growing up. We weren’t poor exactly… We were fed and clothed and took the yearly family road trip. But what we did buy we were stuck with for a while. There were no do-overs when it came to clothes or shoes. I remember my dad [...]

It’s Heart Day! Giving Thanks

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I have a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes as I write this post. And honestly I don’t know why. Four years ago today, my beautiful, vibrant daughter had open heart surgery to repair a defect called Tetralogy of Fallot. Read more about it on my post Giving Back or check out [...]

Cooking Connections Highlights #CookingConnections

I was recently part of a great chat on The Motherhood about cooking together with your kids. Since that is something I love to do, I was really excited to participate. It was especially interesting to see what others came up with as well: It’s NOT a recipe for disaster to involve kids in cooking [...]

Modern Manners Monday – Another Child is Asking for My Kid’s Stuff

Learn more about Modern Manners Monday. Dear DMM: We have several children that come over to our house on a regular basis at varying times. One little boy visits every couple of weeks or so. While the kids play, the mother and I chat. I like the mother and I like the child.Everyone gets along [...]

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