Keeping Your Kids Safe When They Play Video Games #DigitalJoneses #TrendMicro

Video Game Control

Tweet My kids are getting to the age where they really like to play games online. My 7-year-old and 9-year-old love to play on Club Penguin. They also like to play Monkey Quest. Recently my son has told me that some people were chatting with him during the game and asking his name. He wasn’t sure if he should tell them his name or not. To me, that was a good thing because he came to me first. Both kids {Read More}

Kids LiveWell from the National Restaurant Association @KidsLiveWell

Kids LiveWell Splash

Tweet 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 drink water and my youngest drinks milk like crazy. Juices are always 100% juice and my kids just generally stay away from things with {Read More}

Online Safety and Kids #DigitalJoneses #TrendMicro

Trend Micro Online Safety Discussions with Kids

Tweet 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 talking about online safety and our children. All three of my children (ages 9, 7 and 5) LOVE being on the computer. They are {Read More}

Live a Little: They Had Me at Mama

Live a Little Skimbaco

Tweet 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 the kids determined to get back home as quickly as possible to make a dent in my T0-Do list. As soon I saw my {Read More}

Nine and a Million

Huntly Just Born-1

Tweet 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 broke and you were in distress. Not only were you coming but you would be joining this party fast. I still vividly recall the {Read More}

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

Tweet 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 choose milk or water to drink about 99% of the time. Like I said, I am lucky. But here is the thing, how do {Read More}

10 Tips on Prepping for Preschool #preschoolprep

Tweet It is that time of year again. School is starting soon or may have already started in your area. Here in Georgia, we started weeks ago. However in the North, I know many kids are starting school this week. Preschool is a big deal in the lives of many children. For many kids, this is most likely their first experience in a group setting outside of the occasional playdate. For all three of my children, this was the case. {Read More}

The Orange Shoes

Orange Shoes

Tweet 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 taking me shopping because softball season was starting soon. Cleats were part of the required softball uniform and I am  sure that we ended {Read More}

It’s Heart Day! Giving Thanks

laurel-in-hospital-1

Tweet 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 my previous celebration post: Happy Heart Day! Every time I see this picture I can barely contain myself. Look at that beautiful face! Everything {Read More}

My Son Will Never Be a Stormchaser

Bad Storms in Atlanta

Tweet We have had a rough several weeks in our house. And when I say rough, I mean really rough. About a month ago here in Atlanta, there were some pretty bad storms. The day was already not going well. I took all three kids to Costco about two hours before they had their first mock swim meet. After acting like crazy kids in Costco, we ran out to the car to get ourselves to the swim meet. The car {Read More}

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