Tonight is the night!!!  Please join me in supporting my friend Chris on The Voice on NBC.   How can you help him make it to the next round?  Vote! Want to learn more about how to support and vote for Chris tonight? Check on the video from NBC about how to vote. Finally, let’s…

Most mornings I start my day by going for a walk through the regional park behind my house.  I’ve walked in thunderstorms, snow, and bitter cold, but mornings that look like this are the best… 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…

Last week my daughter and I were driving to a birthday party, singing along to the radio at the top of our lungs.  Okay, so I was singing along at the top of my lungs and she was quietly singing along hoping that I wouldn’t hear her or even notice.  One of my favorite songs…

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…

Today is World Water Day – Change Begins with a Drop Today, people from all over the world are celebrating World Water Day, an observance begun by the United Nations in 1993 to advocate for the sustainable management of our most precious natural resource – fresh water sources. I am the type of person who…

Every mom of little Disney fans knows that the time of day when “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” disappears and “Zeke and Luther” take over can be a tough transition.  There have been countless times when my kids have longed for a little “Imagination Movers” only to be faced with back to back “Suite Life” episodes.  No…

My incredibly clever and brilliant friend Emily at ColoradoMoms.com came up with the fun idea to countdown to the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration by creating Fashion Friday posts inspired by the Disney Princesses.  Emily used Polyvore to create a series of looks inspired by Disney Princesses and characters, and she has graciously allowed me to join…

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…

Two years ago I blogged about Disney’s Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure, our family’s absolute favorite attraction at EPCOT.  What began as something that I was sure my family would not like turned into a bit of an obsession, at least to my son.  Suddenly we were finding old Kim Possible episodes on DVD and…

Things you don’t want to hear when the contractor is working on your upstairs bathroom: “Has that hole always been in your kitchen ceiling or did something fall?” 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…

There has always been a connection for me between the heart and Compassion International.  When I first wrote about Compassion three years ago, I titled the post “A Story of a Woman and Her Heart.”  In making the decision to join the Compassion Bloggers this May in Tanzania, I had to let go of what…

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…

I was going through old photos this week taken during my first trip to Walt Disney World with my kids.  I couldn’t believe how much  my son in particular still looked like a baby, his chubby two and a half year old cheeks a sharp contrast to the much more chiseled face of my now…

“It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears; it’s a world of hopes and a world of fears…”   When I was a very young child, this was one of my best friends: It used to have a white dust cover with beautiful images from Disney movies, but I’m fairly sure that is a…

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and even if you have the luck of the Irish, it is never safe to drive buzzed.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Ad Council are reminding everyone that the best way to keep your family and yourself safe is to plan ahead and designate…

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….

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…

We have some exciting news to share with you from one of our favorite brands, Baby Brezza. You may remember that we put a call out for baby food recipe submissions for an upcoming cookbook. Well, thanks to the wonderful contributions of moms like you, The Baby Brezza Cookbook is here! Join us for an exciting…

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…

Last weekend I was sitting on the floor, decorating the dining room table for my daughter’s birthday when I turned around to see this staring at me, completely silent, completely still… 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…

From time to time here on Resourceful Mommy I blog about my faith. I tried to start a site called Living Font, where bloggers who are Christians but are not “Christian bloggers” could come to write about their personal journeys, but like lots of my enthusiastic ideas, it never got off the ground.  It turns out…