Would you love to be a part of the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration from home?  Want to learn some of the social media tips and secrets from the conference and even have a chance to pick up some fun swag?  Now you can! Not only will you be able to follow the #DisneySMMoms tag…

With my first child, milestones were like the elephant in the room.  My daughter was born two months early, and while most babies her age were sitting unsupported, pulling up on furniture, and beginning to crawl, Emma was still struggling for muscle control and strength.  With each milestone, the pediatrician gave us both the “normal”…

It’s almost time for this year’s Disney Social Media Moms Celebration!  Some memories from last year… Wordless Wednesday Linky! Did you post a Wordless Wednesday today?  Link up here!

Last fall I wrote a pair of posts about the search for who I used to be before I came a mom.  I am amazed at how rarely I know the education or professional background of my mom and blogging friends, yet I know their children’s favorite sports and food allergies.  Previously I looked at…

I don’t know if it’s the Minnie ears on my head, or the unexpected burst of snow that blasted through my town last night, but I woke up this morning ready to hop on the next flight to Orlando.    With the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration just over a week away, I’ve been answering…

Periodically my son will ask me when there’s going to be a new Toy Story movie, and every time I answer, “Probably never,” I feel like the worst mom in the world.  Sometimes he accepts his fate and walks away, but other times we have to revisit the length of the series franchise, the plot…

In all of our travels to Disney, we have never enrolled our children in any of the kids club activities partly because they did not fit into our time schedule, and partly because our children were not both old enough to participate as drop-offs.  My own memories of traveling as a child always include these…

The snow is melting, the bulbs are blooming, and St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner!  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Ad Council are reminding everyone that the best way to keep your family safe is to plan ahead and designate a sober driver before heading out for your St Patty’s…

She scowls at me and rolls her eyes.  She helps clean up after meals without being asked.  She tells her brother that she doesn’t want to be near him.  She cleans her room and makes her bed completely unprompted.  She hates me.  She loves me.  She wants to be a big kid.  She wants to…

Mondays tear me up.  More accurately, they tear me down. I always knew I would be a stay-at-home mom, and immediately after giving birth to my first child, I decided that I never wanted to return to teaching.  Our original family plan was to head back to the classroom when our first child entered kindergarten,…

Keeping up with the many changes at Walt Disney World can feel like a full time job, but two recent announcements in particular were so exciting that I had to share them with all of you.  Many fans of Toontown have been concerned about finding opportunities to meet the Princesses, Fairies, and Mickey and the…

It looks like the whole family has a new favorite! Wordless Wednesday Linky

I am not a morning person.  Waking me up when I do not want to be awake is a bit like approaching a tiger as it is feasting on its prey.  Let’s just say that I’ve perfected hitting the offender without actually opening my eyes or rolling over. This morning about 6:30 my husband carefully…

Over the weekend a good friend of mine sent me a message that she had finally confronted her sister-in-law about an on-going family issue.  My brother and sister-in-law were visiting us with their kids for the weekend, so it was an interesting time to hear about such a confrontation.  I am very fortunate in that…

When my daughter was just a couple months old, my husband and I took her to see a geneticist at one of the top children’s hospitals in the country.  She had been born two months early with heart defects and other abnormalities, and while weeks of blood tests ruled out the basics, her doctors recommended…

I have a crazy case of spring fever, so much so that when I take down my Valentine’s decorations today, I’m going straight for my forsythia door wreath. Wordless Wednesday Linky

While preparing for the upcoming week, I accidentally took a trip down memory lane.  I don’t know how it happened, but one moment I was answering important emails, the next thinking that I should write a lovely post about how much I love my children this Valentine’s Day, and then suddenly I was in the…

No, I don’t have the fever.  The Bieber Fever. Once I got past the solid six months or so of being aggravated by the screaming girls and the insane hair when Justin Bieber first reached super-stardom, thus taking over every news program, talk show, and magazine, I was able to step back and appreciate what…

We know it’s a problem.  We must. I see it all around me from friends’ Facebook updates to traditional media stories to my own life.  Just this morning I grabbed the latest Newsweek to hit the highlights in two minutes or less and found Lisa Miller’s article “Mommy is Busy Right Now.” Darn right she’s…

Over the past two and a half years of blogging, I’ve written several times about children’s nutrition.  The sad fact is, however, that I am much better at keeping my kids from eating what they should not eat than I am at encouraging them to eat enough of what they should eat.  For all the…

One of the best parts of blogging is the community of bloggers I have met and gotten to know, many of them closer to me than friends I have known my entire life.  We speak daily, we see each other a few times a year, and we provide a support system for one another that…