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Best of Resourceful Mommy: Valuing Wh...

During my time in Tanzania with Compassion International, I will would like to share some of my favorite posts from the past. ~Originally posted 11/16/11~ My husband and my son do not oftenalways get along.  I like to joke that had my husband and I met when we were five, I likely would have driven him crazy,…

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Best of Resourceful Mommy: Parenting ...

During my time in Tanzania with Compassion International, I will would like to share some of my favorite posts from the past. ~Originally posted 11/11/10~ When I held my daughter in my arms six years ago, looking down at her, I imagined little fingers playing the piano, little feet dancing excitedly, a little voice singing to…

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Rayovac Teachers Bring Science to Lif...

I will never forget Mrs. Boyer.  Despite the fact that my mom was a doctor, my older brother was a chemical engineering major, and my future sister in law was a biology major, my eleventh grade chemistry class still occasionally drove me absolutely crazy.  Science did not come to me as easily as other subjects,…

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Mamavation Monday: Sneaky Exercise

When my kids were very young I used to take them to the National Zoo often, pushing them up and down the incredibly steep hills of Rock Creek Park in a double stroller, occasionally asking my daughter to walk next to me at the steepest parts to give my legs and back a break.  Whether…

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Why are Moms Disrespected?

A few months ago I wrote a post for another site about what I saw as the lack of consideration for my time because I am a mom.  I believed that the assumption by the leader of an after school activity was that I had nothing else to do, nowhere to be, and so it…

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Child Seat Safety Twitter Chat

Please join us next week for a special question and answer session about child seat safety. For one very special hour child passenger seat experts from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will be available to answer all of your car seat questions!  With so many rules to remember and options in the stores, child passenger…

HighEnergyAmy

Introducing Rayovac Advanced High Ene...

My kids are high energy.  Actually, my life is high energy.  We are constantly on the go and needing our most important devices to work including our digital cameras as we take pictures of everything from 5K races… …to hiking in the mountains near our home. Even when we’re at home, the action doesn’t slow…

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Oh, the Places Moms Go

With sincerest apologies to Dr. Seuss…   We have brains in our heads And feet in our pumps Sometimes we look awesome Sometimes it’s all frump We’re on our own and we know what we know We make every decision about where things go We run our own businesses Run the house, too Our day…

The Horse That Pooped Frost

Remember those ridiculous conversations you used to have when you were a teenager or maybe while sitting around procrastinating with friends in college, up during all hours of the night, sometimes affected by substances?  I had no idea before becoming a mom that having children was a gateway back into those conversations that can turn…

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Yes, I am Sheltering My Kids

This morning I read a post on my friend Jennifers’s blog Hip As I Wanna Be called No, My 12 Year Old Won’t Visit Your Bedroom, and my first instinct was to pull my kids out of school, throw away all technology, draw the blinds, and play board games together in happy family harmony until they’re twenty-five….

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Siblings at Birthday Parties

I distinctly remember wanting desperately to be included in my older brother’s parties when I was a kid from his sleepovers with just a couple of the boys in his class to the volleyball game in the backyard when he turned fifteen to – and I cannot believe  I’m admitting this – the night my…

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Love Your Veggies™ Lunch Break for Sc...

As a member of the Hidden Valley Ranch Parenting Panel, I am happy to announce this week’s launch of the Lunch Break for Schools program.  With fundraising events happening all week throughout the country, the Lunch Break for Schools program is partnering with celebrity chefs to help promote healthy eating habits and proper nutrition among…

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I’m a Recovering Cake Mom

I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch county, otherwise known as the land of the baked good.  Okay, so I just made that name up, but the truth is that most of my memories of my grandmother involve her standing in the kitchen, handing me little cups with semi-sweet morsels, baking me tiny milk pies with…

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#Ashamed Campaign Update – Vict...

I have heard from many of you in response to my participation in the #Ashamed movement asking Strong4Life to remove the following and similar billboards from Georgia streets: Nearly every single person who has reached out to me in email or via comments has been in support of what we were trying to do –…

Happy Birthday, Emma

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Above the Influence?

This morning as my seven year old was eating breakfast, she announced to me that her 2nd grade teacher had told the kids the day before that they should wear spring coats, not winter coats the next day.  I knew that the weather report called for unseasonably warm weather today, but it’s February in the…

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Wordless Wednesday: Friday Night Fun

Wordless Wednesday Want more Wordless Wednesday?  Check out:  The Bonafide Life, Better in Bulk, Shanamama, From Dates to Diapers, Not Your Momblog, The Divine Miss Mommy, Colorado Moms, Rajean Blomquist, Brain Foggles, Lil Kid Things, The Centsible Life, Rachel Ferruci, and Zensible Mama. Don’t forget to link your own photos below!  

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Why Some Kids Hate Vegetables

When my husband and I began dating, he had just moved into his first apartment and was living on his own for the first time in his life.  His diet consisted of three things: microwave pizzas, frozen chicken nuggets with fries, and chips with queso.  My first experience living completely on my own involved almost…

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The Things I Miss

My daughter is turning eight in one month.  Eight.  We have now entered the age of Taylor Swift albums, sleepovers, giggles and whispers in best friend’s ears, eye rolls at boy…eye rolls at everything. I love that she can tie her brother’s shoes and usually helps him without being asked.  I love that she feeds…

Wordless Wednesday: The Gambler

  Wordless Wednesday Want more Wordless Wednesday?  Check out:  The Bonafide Life, Better in Bulk, Shanamama, From Dates to Diapers, Not Your Momblog, The Divine Miss Mommy, Colorado Moms, Rajean Blomquist, Brain Foggles, Lil Kid Things, The Centsible Life, Rachel Ferruci, and Zensible Mama. Don’t forget to link your own photos below!

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Ragu Mom’s the Word on Dinner $...

I spent the second half of 2011 as a Ragu Mom’s the Word on Dinner ambassador because not a single week goes by without us using Ragu in at least one meal.  I truly love this product, and through this program I have had the privilege of learning more about not only changes made to…