Tweet Ever since I became a mom, I’ve had a recurring nightmare about my children and water.  I love to swim and grew up spending most of my summer in the water either at the community pool or at the lake where we camped every other weekend, but I’ve never felt confident when my kids [...]

Tweet Disclosure: this post contains sponsored content. Three years ago this month I was working at my desk, chatting with  my friend Shannan in Skype, and looking forward to the summer with my kids.  That’s when Shannan told me her littlest, D, was complaining of a stomach ache.  We did what we always do as [...]

Tweet I am a list person, a writer-on-my-hand girl, a former college student who had to duct tape assignments to her desk to not lose them.  Seriously. This is why the person who first tied smoke alarm battery changes to changes in daylight savings time is among my heroes.  Like lefty-loosey, righty-tighty, ROYGBIV and KPCOFGSV [...]

Tweet After a(nother) winter with essentially no snow, I’ve decided that it’s time to jump right past St. Patty’s Day and decorate my home for Easter.  I’ve given up on the idea of a rare March storm and instead have focused my eyes on the daffodils poking up and the birds chirping in the trees. We [...]

Tweet A little over  year ago I asked readers for their opinions on when to have the changing body talk with my children.  When I began blogging nearly five years ago, my daughter was in pre-school, my son still in diapers.  My biggest parenting problem was my never-ending quest to get my son to sleep [...]

Tweet Last night I watched the Golden Globes along with millions of other fans of movies and television.  Watching the actors and actresses, many of them from my childhood, reminded me of how special it was to have a night out at the movies when I was a kid.  The closest movie theater was a [...]

Tweet Last week I traveled to Las Vegas for the New Media Expo conference.  I was headed to spend a couple days with some of the most technologically savvy people in the country, possibly the world, and I had packed my favorite gadgets.  The problem?  I couldn’t take my Verizon FiOS with me.  There was [...]

Tweet Last week we chatted on Twitter about not only the nutritional benefits of delicious meals including Barilla pastas, but also the ease of pasta based meals, meeting the needs of busy families trying to deliver nutritious meals to the family quickly. As a fun follow-up, I want to introduce you to Barilla Microwaveable Meals. [...]