A few weeks ago I was over at {GwenBell.com} and came across her “The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge”.  The gist of the Challenge is that Gwen has listed a number of prompts, thirty-one to be exact, to help people look back over this past year and celebrate the best or most memorable moments.  Each [...]

Honestly, I had never heard of BOZ, the Green Bear Next Door until I received a couple of dvds in the mail.  He’s not in our regular line-up of “mommy needs a break” tv.  And I wasn’t sure how my girls were going to take to a big green bear.  But, of course, they love [...]

I don’t work outside of my home (unless you count coffee shops from time to time).  And I don’t work full-time. I haven’t since I gave birth to Abbi four years ago.  My number one responsibility is to take care of my girls and then, when I have time, I do freelance writing, blogging, and [...]

We’ve all been there, whether we have kids or not.  We’ve been there before we had kids and, although we try to be more understanding, we’ve been been there after having kids.  We’ve all been the person passing judgement on the parenting styles and parenting decisions of others.  And many of us have been on [...]

Someone please tell me how it’s possible that I have a four year old!  That’s right, my baby turns four today.  And she is so excited about! I think this is the first birthday where she was actually anticipating her birthday.  She’s been asking (since Halloween) when it would be her birthday.  We told her [...]