I happened to come across a fun morphing website and I just had to see what they thought a child between Big Daddy P and I would look like. Since I already have 2 fine examples, I was interested in just how close the morphing of our 2 faces would be compared to our kids. + = Me […]
[Continue reading...]JumpStart Review and Giveaway
June 30, 2010 21 Comments
*This contest is officially closed, thank you all for entering. Congratulations Mommy D.!* Mommy Friends, I am so excited to share my experience with JumpStart by Knowledge Adventure! My eldest is moving into the 3rd grade (AKA “The Big Time”) this fall and would have loved nothing more than to spend his entire summer watching re-runs of […]
[Continue reading...]Letters to My Younger Self
June 29, 2010 4 Comments
Adorable Joanna of Raising Madison asked her readers to pen letters to their younger selves. This is going to be interesting… Dear Lori at 7, Hold on to all that Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony stuff, it is going to be worth a mint someday. Dear Lori at 12, Divorce is just the beginning even though it feels […]
[Continue reading...]What Makes Me a Theta Mom
June 27, 2010 14 Comments
Theta Mom, personal blogging hero and friend posed the question to her readers, “What makes you proud to be a Theta Mom?” I thought about it, and thought about it, and then I thought some more. This is what I discovered: I have a very real and personal fear of failure. I would have never embarked on […]
[Continue reading...]The March of Dimes
June 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
The little girl in the picture above is my mom as a March of Dimes poster child in 1952. She was diagnosed with polio at 8 months old and in that year, my mom was one of 1,439 persons stricken with polio in Los Angeles alone. Through the aid of the March of Dimes, my mom was able to undergo treatment for […]
[Continue reading...]Guest Blog Spot ~ Three is the Magic Number!
June 25, 2010 15 Comments
I am very lucky to have amazing Mommy Friends within my personal circle of friends. I asked my personal bestie and wind beneath my wings, Mommy Friend Gwen to write my first-ever Guest Blog Spot! But before she do that voodoo that she do, her story deserves a proper introduction: Mommy Friend Gwen and I met […]
[Continue reading...]The Waiting is the Hardest Part
June 22, 2010 6 Comments
[Image Credit] I am a certifiable expert in the way of pediatrician visits. Little BooBoo has been seen a record number of 12 times so far this year alone for a variety of toddlery things. Of the dozen visits this year, I come back to the same gripe which I like to call “the waiting […]
[Continue reading...]Happy Father’s Day!
June 19, 2010 2 Comments
[Image Credit] Did you know this Father’s Day marks the 100th anniversary of celebrating dads on this special day? A thoughtful daughter came up with the idea while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. A year later she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, […]
[Continue reading...]A Match Made in Heaven
June 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
The lovely and uber-talented ladies of New Mommy Oasis welcomed me as their Special Guest blogger today! Check out my post, A Match Made in Heaven and see how I did! I believe Mommyfriend and New Mommy Oasis are indeed a match made in heaven! In their own words, New Mommy Oasis is, “A place where moms help new moms through the […]
[Continue reading...]Mommyfriend’s Blogging Heroes
June 11, 2010 8 Comments
Since I entered the blogosphere back in January I have had the distinct opportunity to discover some seriously fierce bloggers. Blogging is like breathing for them; it’s natural, effortless and obviously something they were born to do. There are too many wonderful and truly talented bloggers out there to mention personally but lately I’ve been […]
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