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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Speak Now For Kids: Join Me in this Grassroots Movement

Did you know that there are 8.8 million children (about 11 % of all children) who are not insured in the United States? It is this staggering, sad and scary statistic that gave me a kick in the butt motivated me to become involved with the Speak Now for Kids grassroots movement. Speak Now for [...]

Momfluence Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Featured Products Chic and Carry Wristlet – Make mom’s quick trips out with baby much easier with this great product. Miessence Organics Mothers Day Set – Every mom deserves to be pampered once in awhile, and these organic body products allow her to do just that. Sara Lee Simply Sweets Pies – Sara Lee’s Simply [...]