Rooted in Resourceful - Always Branching Out
Tweet Earlier this season I shared some of my top picks for tween girls and young elementary aged boys in my 2012 Holiday Gift Guide. Now that the kids are taken care of, it’s time to take care of you. If you are anything like me, you love to try the latest offerings in technology [...]
Tweet It always seems that just when we are getting ready to finally say goodbye to toys that have moved from old favorites to disregarded, my children are suddenly nostalgic and want to play with them again. While I love taking a trip down memory lane with them, sometimes we find that the batteries we [...]
Tweet When I first started blogging, holiday gift guides seemed like a fun little way to try out new products, work with great brands, and make carefully selected recommendations to my readers. I quickly realized that gift guides are really a way that bloggers torture themselves each holiday season by committing to far more reviews [...]
Tweet Please join me for a very special hour on Twitter next week. We’ll be tweeting with Compassion International about giving back this holiday season with a focus on how to support others without breaking the bank. I’m happy to announce that @TheSamiCone, a Compassion blogger, will be joining us as a special guest as [...]
Tweet I remember as a child on Halloween, carefully navigating jack-o-lantern’s lit with candles, holding tight to the edges of my incredibly flammable 1980′s made costumes. We walked house to house in total darkness on some streets, only sporadic streetlights to light our way. And in a small town with no sidewalks, we did our [...]
Tweet Our parents all warned us. Moms of older kids nudged and told us. Trace Adkins even sang to us about it, and if you’re like me, you sighed and changed the station. And then earlier this week when everyone panicked that Facebook did didn’t may have released private messages from 2009 to our public [...]
Tweet I have a confession. While I have had the occasional good organization idea (I still love using bins to turn shelves into drawers), I continue to find myself overwhelmed by the papers that come home each day in my children’s backpacks. My kids’ backpacks are very organized with folders that contain a “keep home” [...]
Tweet I have been reading Redbook since I was fifteen, and every month when my new issue comes, I turn immediately to the Whys Guy feature by Aaron Traister. I could say that I read his articles to decode male behavior and gain a better understanding of my husband, but the truth is that I just [...]
