From the monthly archives:
One of my favorite websites, 5 Minutes for Mom is hosting a Mother’s Day Photo Contest. I’ve decided to enter this photo taken after Megan was born (the day before Mother’s Day in May, 2001). My photo sums up what I was feeling at that moment. An emotional cocktail of happiness, love, amazement, pride [...]
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This month Paul began taking lessons in Karate. He has had a long love affair with all things kicking and punching so Adam and I decided that it was time to channel that energy in a proper direction. Karate (Paul’s version) runs through his blood and seeps into just about everything that he does…bowling [...]
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Congratulations to Amy, winner of Karen Kingsbury’s Let’s Go on a Mommy Date book. (Read my review here.)
I had fun reading the comments of everyone who entered the giveaway. We all agree that a mommy date doesn’t have to be extravagant. It can be any amount of quality time that you spend [...]
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Congratulations to Lindsie, winner of Phil Joel’s Deliberate Kids CD.
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Lately I have had several friends ask me about the release date of Nintendo Wii Fit. I’ve just found out that you can pre-order your Wii Fit now (which sounds like a good idea since according to Amazon there is already a huge demand.) Amazon’s list price $89.99. A bit pricey, but from [...]
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On Friday Paul and I were clothes shopping. He commented that he wished we had all the money in the world to buy as many clothes as we wanted. At four years old he is beginning to understand the value of money. I told Paul that money is nice but it is not [...]
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Horology is the art of…? Leave your guess in the comments (no cheating).
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The thing that I love about company is that I have an excuse to bake. It is good that we don’t have house guests too often or none of my clothes would fit. My family doesn’t need tons of sweets lying around and my kids don’t like half the things that I make [...]
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I’ve been enjoying a bit of spring indoors. Last week I was riding with my friend to our book club when she announced that we were taking a detour. She pulled over to a curb in the neighborhood where the homeowner had discarded three large Forsythia shrubs. They were not yet in [...]
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