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Thoughts on Technology “for” Women
As some of you might know, I’m an occasional contributor at Mamiverse. My most recent article with them, “Crazy Tech Gadgets for Women,” was assigned in a rather open-ended way with the goal of sharing...
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#Mamavation Monday. Again.
It happens every week. That sinking “crap. This again? Already?!” feeling. The Mondays.And the thing is, I like Mondays. Cameron comes back home, I get to catch up with the Mamavation crew, I don’t...
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Halloween Fun with Knott’s
It’s October! And October, at least in my mind, is a whole 30 days to get everyone excited for Halloween.HALLOWEEEEEN!I’m pretty sure I get more excited than most kids do about holidays, and Halloween...
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#Mamavation Monday: Caught Up
I know it doesn’t seem like it, considering that this post is a day late, BUT it’s true. I’m caught up with everything that isn’t this blog. And laundry.Like it’s even possible to be caught up on...
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Peek-a-Boo Glitter Nails
I love nail polish. I may not have time or reason to put on makeup every day (as much as I love it), but I like to have nice looking nails. The hour I spend on them each week is a mini-vacation wherein...
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New Tunes Tuesday: Same Love
This was sent to me yesterday morning, and I’m so in love with it that I needed to share it. It’s a message that really strikes a chord with me, so my hope is that you’ll approach it with an open mind...
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A Tendency to Speak Too Soon
Just when I think I’ve kicked life’s butt. SMH.You know how I said I was all caught up about a month ago? I really shouldn’t have opened my big mouth. No sooner than that post was published did my...
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Season of Giving: DIRECTV Classic College Basketball Tournament Ticket Giveaway
The holidays are fast approaching (holidays being a blanket term for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, New Years, Festivus, Winter Solstice, and anything else I may have forgotten), which...
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Thanksgiving Made Easy, Courtesy of #KnottsTurkeyDay
Have you heard? Thanksgiving is coming!!!I know, it’s really really easy to miss, what with Christmas stuff going up before Halloween.But it is coming and it happens to be next week, and that’s...
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On a dark day
There was a shooting today. At an elementary school.A shooting at an elementary school.It’s jarring on first sight, but then it starts to sink in, like hydrofluoric acid burning its way through...
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Private Life
I haven’t been writing lately. And most of my recent posts are all along the same lines – “sorry I haven’t written in a while.” “I know, it’s been forever.” But right now, my life is just going that...
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Mexican Spiced Hot Chocolate Cookies
I suck at baking cookies. SUCK. So when I visited Melissa’s Produce HQ a while back, they introduced us to a really simple recipe for Hatch Chile Devil’s Food cookies, and my 2 immediate thoughts were:...
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The Airing of Grievances, 2012 Edition
Oh world. Life. Humanity. You’ve done it again. Another year of grievances to air, and if having ample grievances to air is the end game (it isn’t), then 2012 did not disappoint (but really it did) and...
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Goal Setting, 2013 Edition
I was thinking back on the goals I set last year and the ones I did accomplish (weaning, straight As, letting up on the totally purposeless shopping, getting into a routine even though it took til the...
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Speech Development, Mom Guilt, and Learning to Let Go
Cameron is turning 2 in just a couple weeks, but he doesn’t use a lot of words. He points and grunts a lot, is great at sign language, but involuntary/random imitation? Not so much. Sure, he babbles a...
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Trimming the Fat
I recently started reading The 4-Hour Workweek (shameless affiliate link) and I’ll probably be talking a lot about my thoughts on it and how I’m applying it to my life for a while, because really, it...
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Two Years
Cameron’s actual birthday last Friday was a busy day to say the least, so this is a couple days late to publication.Oh, Cameron.Today you’re 2. 2 years old! And my how you’ve grown since we first met...
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Super Baby Facts!
I could also have called this post “Things I Wish I’d Known before Cameron was Born,” but at least the mystery of why he always woke up from his naps when I made food for myself is now solved. Anyway,...
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Kid-Friendly Green Juice Recipe
Cameron is at an age where he eats voraciously, but he won’t necessarily eat all the things he needs for all the proper nutrients, PLUS he doesn’t have all the necessary teeth to make certain foods...
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(Sub)Urban Gardening
I live in a townhouse style apartment about a mile & a half from the beach in Southern California. For the area, it’s considerably spacious, especially for the price. However, I don’t have a real...
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