…and I would also say there was a healthy dose of bitter. I was one of those girls who decided people in high school probably didn’t like me…because I was too smart. (hold the laughter, please) I listened to an awful lot of Tori Amos in college, and an unhealthy overload of Ani DiFranco in…

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I returned home yesterday from speaking at a simply incredible conference called Blissdom and was surprised to learn that my husband had purchased a Valentine’s Day gift for me. We don’t exchange gifts for Valentine’s Day – or for many holidays, quite frankly – so now I’m in the awkward position of finding a gift…

I’ve gotten many interesting questions since launching my Ask Resourceful Mommy feature one month ago, but I thought this one was the most fun! Dear Resourceful Mommy, I know that raisins come from grapes, but I’ve always wanted to know – how exactly are raisins made? To find the answer, I turned to those guys…

When I was pregnant with my daughter, we headed out to a baby product super store and filled our cart (seriously…filled it) with safety products to child proof our home. Then we had our tiny preemie daughter, who turned out to be more content sitting and looking at books than trying to walk. She preferred…

When I was pregnant with my daughter, we headed out to a baby product super store and filled our cart (seriously…filled it) with safety products to child proof our home. Then we had our tiny preemie daughter, who turned out to be more content sitting and looking at books than trying to walk. She preferred…

Have you heard about the online campaign to end childhood hunger? Share Our Strength has launched a brand new campaign to raise funds to help end childhood hunger. “Operation No Kid Hungry” responds to President Obama’s call to action to end childhood hunger by 2015. Share Our Strength has partnered with AT&T to offer cell…

An Interview with Noah (age 2 and 8 months) and Emma (age 4 and 10 months):   *All rides with an asterisk were so enjoyable to my children that we rode them more than once. I’m pretty sure we rode some rides more times than is legally allowed in the state of Florida.   Walt…

Recently word got out in my hometown that I have a website that claims in it’s title that I am Resourceful. Conversations at a wedding turned to just how resourceful I really am, and luckily one friend brought up a tip I once gave her that she uses with her son now. So to prove…

This article is cross-posted at Family Eden – check it out!In my pre-parenting days I often dreamt about being the kind of mom whose children felt they could share everything with her. While this is still a dream of mine, upon becoming a mother I found out that one thing all kids love to share…

Cross-posted at Family Eden’s blog, FamilyEden.Net Many of us make New Year’s resolutions every January, and often those goals involve organizing our homes and removing clutter from our lives. This is a long standing goal of mine, but with a small house and a two pre-schoolers, freeing my home of clutter is a difficult task….

Happy New Year from Resourceful Mommy! After a brief holiday hiatus, I’m looking forward to getting back to being resourceful. As I write this I am battling a slightly more than annoying case of bronchitis that I know travelled straight from my son’s pre-school class to me, politely making no stops at my children. It…

Last night my husband realized that upon returning from Target with my two year old son, I brought in only the bags that I could carry in one trip and forgot to return for the diapers and wipes. When he got to the car he didn’t find a soft, squishy economy sized package of store…

Every year we spend the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas gearing up for a fabulous holiday and time with the family. And then when all of the packages have been unwrapped and family members all return to their own homes, we are left with those days until January 2nd when the kids will return to…

My son is a complicated little guy. On one hand he tells me regularly that he’s a big boy who can use the computer by himself, ride the roller coasters at Disney, sleep with the door open….but in the next moment he’s climbing into the doll’s toy crib and falling asleep. But it is inevitable…

There are so many aspects of Disney that I found to be utterly breathtaking during our trip last week, but the most impressive aspect of the World, hands down, is the attention to detail. When we arrived at our two bedroom suite in the Villas at Wilderness Lodge, we were greeted by what I learned…

(photo by APDK on flickr.com) I recently had a conversation with a friend about how much are children love books. While my daughter had no interest in walking until she was 18 months old, she was able to sit still and carefully page through books by the time she was one year old – and…

Welcome to the Wilderness Lodge, my home away from home this week as my family spends a week at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida! From the moment we touched down at the Orlando airport, it was very clear to me that a Disney vacation is unlike any other. Before departing the DC metro area,…

In this holiday season, while you’re taking the time to choose the perfect gifts for everyone on your list, be sure to take some time to pamper yourself. Why not head to a party, find time for “Me Time”, or enter to win some fabulous Goody Bag prizes – because we all know a party…

How often do you take time for yourself – truly for yourself? Once a day, once a week, once a month? Join me as we celebrate “Me Time” while having a SiteWarming Party for MeTime.Com on Friday, December 12th from 9pm to 10pm EST on Twitter! What began as a clever line of apparel with…

I attempted to come up with a clever title for this post, but thought that cleverness would just obscure the point – if you are a parent, you need to buy this book. And forget a micro-blog today – this is too important to hold back. The first time that my husband and I travelled…