What a Mom Wants

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Mother’s Happy Day!

While we never stepped into motherhood for the glory, it sure is nice to feel appreciated on this fine Mother’s Day. So go on, love your mama and be loved today.       Happy Mother’s Day my beautiful Mommy Friends!

The Gift of My Other Mother

A letter to my stepmom: You didn’t hear my first word or see my first steps. You didn’t send me off to my first day of school. You didn’t kiss my boo-boos or read me bedtime stories. Yet somehow you became every bit a mother to me as my own. You knew when to be […]

Making Your Family a Team

Goooooooooooooo team!  You know your family rocks, but are they a team?  They can be! Join me in making your family your personal All Star Team by clicking here! And you know what else?  Yahoo! Contributor Network featured this article on their Lifestyle front page last weekend!  If you’re interested in joining me in contributing for Yahoo!, click […]

In the Closet

You can visit & subscribe to my YouTube Channel by clicking here where I like to talk about the skeletons in my closet.

5 Steps to Protecting Your Family in an Emergency

[Image credit] Trust me, I don’t wanna get all PSA on you.  I really hate thinking about things like natural disasters or household emergencies, like really really.  But unfortunately, scary $@&% can happen. Emergency preparedness matters.  There are some simple steps we can take to educate and prepare our families in the event of an emergency. Click here to learn more and join […]

My Wonder Woman Wannabe Interview!

My awesome friend Heidi of Wonder Woman Wannabe is hosting a month of blogger interviews in celebration of her 2 year blogiversary (and in bloggy years that’s a lifetime)!  I love Wonder Woman Wannabe’s Interview with a Blogger series for 3 reasons: 1. Bloggy support makes me want to hug total strangers. 2. I love meeting new and awesome bloggers. 3. I was […]

I’m Starting a Gang

[Image credit] I feel like my bloggy girlfriends are part of my virtual gang.  While I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting even one of you in real life, I think of y’all as part of my posse.  I tweet, you respond.  I Facebook, you “Like”.  You’re always with me, miraculously living in the iPhone that’s become a very real and somewhat frightening […]

Baby, I’m A Vlog Star!

Congratulations to our vlog star Emily of Adventures in EmilyWorld on winning Oprah’s fancy coffee table book!  Thank you all for participating and if you couldn’t link up this time, no worries!  We’ll do it again real soon, keep shining!             What do you like about yourself?  Grab that camera and link up your […]

The Mom Pledge

Last year I wrote a post about my first experience with an internet troll.  It blindsided me, like whoa. As I got a little most used to the abuse (how sad), I wrote a follow-up post about The Comment Bully. Since then I’ve continued to witness the unbelievable abuse of bloggers by those just jonesing for a fight.  It’s […]