Right now I am on day two of antibiotics and starting to feel some relief from strep, otherwise known as the most-horrible-plague-like-illness-I-have-experienced-outside-of-pregnancy.  From now on when people say, “My child has strep,” I will shout out in horror and weep for them.  This strep business is no joke. As soon as I knew that was…

If your kids are like mine, they see every opportunity to upload a photo and have a chance to be seen on t.v. and immediately want to participate.  In general, we don’t send pictures in to sites, but the whole family absolutely loves Disney Junior, so I was excited to learn about the Disney Junior…

This week’s deals of the week are in both Dallas and Phoenix.  As I write this, I am taking a little cocktail of antibiotics, ibuprofen, and ice chips to fight my very first bout with strep.  There is nothing I need more than a little pampering right now, so I’m excited to share that the…

This is where I grew up, in the orange dot in the middle of the black circle.  We lived on a double lot with nothing but grass and a couple white birch trees, and behind us were fields of horses and sheep.  Space to run and play?  My town cornered the market on space. Then…

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How do you know that your husband loves you?  When you’re in a conference all day, he is riding Dumbo with the kids, and he thinks to pull out the camera to snap this behind the scenes photo of the Fantasyland Expansion at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. It’s so exciting to see the progress…

My first grade daughter has this friend, H, that she just absolutely adores.  They sit together at lunch, play together at recess, and get along like two silly, happy peas in a pod.  Last month while my family traveled to Walt Disney World for the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration, H had her birthday party,…

In January when Disney’s Animal Kingdom added the Wild Africa Trek to the menu of amazing experiences at the Walt Disney World Resort, Cindy from The Mom Maven shared the details with us in her Wild Africa Trek guest post.  Cindy’s report of what the adventure entails including pricing, contact information and more was so…

Let me tell you about the sad tale of a girl and her iPad…her almost iPad… A couple months ago I received an email from a very well-respected PR firm that I, quite frankly, had been hoping to work with for some time.  After a few emails and a couple of calls, I learned that…

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Each day I receive a couple dozen post ideas from various agencies and companies.  They often make me roll my eyes (“Are you satisfied in bed?”), make me scratch my head (“Dear Mommy Blogger Insert Name Here”), but sometimes make me stop in my tracks and realize that I absolutely cannot simply click delete and…

The plan for today was to buy some beautiful spring flowers, especially the bulbs that we discovered weren’t planted at our new house.  All March I waited, hoping to see little green leaves poking up through the soil, only to find that the previous owners had only planted a summer garden.  I’m anxious for daffodils,…

…for Spongebob, Harry Potter, the Twilight series… I have told my kids that they will never be allowed to watch Spongebob because there is no “right age” for rude and disgusting, but what about Harry Potter and other works of children’s literature that have become a right of passage for kids?  Just because a child…

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More and more I hear of bloggers requesting press passes and media credentials.  I read Facebook and Twitter updates like this one: “I’m being taken backstage with member of the press!” and know of many bloggers who regularly attend media events.  Bloggers often consider themselves to be members of the online media, the “new” media,…

I just returned from four days in Orlando for the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration, an event that I am very honored to help organize, and while there are amazing take-aways that I want to share this week for Disney fans, social media fans, and businesswomen like myself, I have to just start by highlighting…

While many of the people who read my blog know me mainly as someone who writes about Disney, parenting, or whatever is on my mind when I sit down to type, another huge aspect of what I do involves working on blog campaigns that involve anything from public service blog posts to reviews/giveaways to sponsored…

By the time I got to them for bedtime stories, they were reading to each other… Wordless Wednesday Linky Did you post a Wordless Wednesday this week?  Link up here to share with my readers!

Look what I did: I was so inspired after reading and reviewing Pretty Neat that I couldn’t help but attack that horrible problem area.  So how did I do it? I used a few of the tips from the book: 1. The power of NO! – Okay, so I didn’t shout it every time I…

(photo: my mom on her family’s farm) I have always thought of myself as my father’s daughter. There was a picture hanging in my grandmother’s home of my dad his senior year of high school, his hair slicked back, his sly smile flashing even through the black and white and years that passed.  When I…

While there are probably a multitude of ways that we can send aid – financial and otherwise – to the people of Japan during this horrible time, I received an email from the folks at World Vision today providing ways that bloggers can spread the word about what they are doing in the region.  I…