Happy Birthday To the Second Love of My Life

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Today, just a few minutes ago you turned eight. My breath catches in my throat and my eyes tear up a little as I type that. Because I cannot believe that you are actually eight years old. Eight years ago today you came busting into this world (my water broke) six weeks early. I had [...]

Avoiding Extracurricular Activity Burnout

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Some Most All of us are busy people. We work at jobs that keep us hopping all day long. After a long busy day, most people want to come home and relax, right? Well there are those who come home and get started all over again being busy. Are you busy because of yourself or [...]

My Husband Will Not Speak to Me

I am ignoring my husband as he tries for about the hundredth time to explain the flaw in the logic of the movie The Terminator. I don’t give a crap besides I have heard enough of this story that I know what his theory is. Still as he tries to explain it to me for [...]

“What Can I Learn Today?” Reader Contest from Mamapedia

*Thank you to New Baby for donating this VADO camera from Creative Labs to our fun event. Please check out New Baby and consider adding your own vlog! Last weekend we had the opportunity to meet a wonderful new parenting advice search engine, Mamapedia, and now we’d like you to try the site out for [...]

Speechless Sundays – The Mohawk Master

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Bath time is very often the most exciting part of the day for my children. I mean we have all types of options available to the kids depending on the timing of the bath. There is your standard bath which is about 15 minutes, there is the fun bath which can be 30 plus minutes [...]

Excited to be a Part of Team Fridge & Frigidaire

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The fabulous folks from Frigidaire and Mom Central have just made my life a little easier and are giving me a little more time to practice being divine. How? Well I have just been invited to be on Team Fridge. This awesome refrigerator below will be making its way to our household in just a [...]

Handed Down from Mother to Daughter

There are many things that I got from my mother. Some I wish that I hadn’t and others…well you can definitely tell that they came from my mother. I don’t have her eyes. I don’t have her smile. I don’t even have her coloring. In fact, I look nothing like her. I sure wish that [...]

Blogging Moms – Join the New Panel of Moms from PTPA Media

Blogging Moms- Are you interested in joining our new Panel of Moms at PTPA Media? I am the Chief Mom Panel Member and there are a lot of exciting things going on at PTPA Media. Based on incredible demand from our Mom network, PTPA has put together the first Parent Tested Parent Approved Mom Panel [...]

Protect-A-Bed Blogher ’09 Scholarship Contest

The people at Protect-A-Bed have joined forces with bloggers What’s That Smell? and 3 P’s in a Pod to host a pretty cool contest. They are giving away $300 to help with expenses to BlogHer. I could really use this $300 as I don’t have a plane ticket yet and have been waiting for the [...]

Mamapedia: The Wisdom of Moms Answering Your Everyday Questions

It’s 2:00 a.m. and your three month old is crying…a lot. You’re a first time mother, and while you’ve got a ton of questions, you called your mom at 2:00 in the morning last night about that crazy looking diaper, so you’d really like to get through this one on your own. But where can [...]