Posted in Giveaways! on May 20th, 2009
As promised, I have an exciting announcement today. I’m doing another giveaway! <<APPLAUSE PLEASE>> I adore giveaways for a number of reasons, but most of all because my readers get a chance to win something AWESOME! This particular one is sponsored by Belle Designs, an online jewelry shop owned and operated by Claudine Jalajas. Her [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 19th, 2009
I didn’t get a post done because I’ve been under the weather and had to go to the doctor today. When you live out in the middle of nowhere and have to drive 35 miles to town, the process generally takes the entire day because you can’t go all that way without picking up groceries [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 18th, 2009
Our blogathon group decided to designate May 21 as “Guest Blogger Day.” I will be over at This Dame Cooks on Thursday. I am thrilled to announce my guest blogger, Leah Ingram. She comes with a boatload of credits (author, editor, magazine writer, etiquette consultant, just to name a few) and she’s just an all-around [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 17th, 2009
Yesterday I posted about chore charts. Writing that post got me wondering — what sorts of chores are good for my 5-year-old and which ones are better for my 11-year-olds? I found a website with great age-appropriate chore charts, Printable Checklists. It has checklists for 2-3-year-olds, 4-5-year-olds, 6-7-year-olds, 8-9-year-olds and 10+. On the 4-5-year-old checklist, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 16th, 2009
In keeping with my loosely scheduled summer planning, I have decided to implement chore charts for the kids. I’ve actually been meaning to do this for a long time, but haven’t gotten past printing out blank charts, which I subsequently misplaced. (If you know me personally, this won’t surprise you.) Since I basically have to [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 15th, 2009
I don’t make a habit of promoting products, but if I really like something, I’ll be the first to recommend it to anyone and everyone. The Leapster 2 is, in my opinion, totally worth recommending. Made by LeapFrog, it’s essentially an educational hand held game console that runs game cartridges, purchased separately. The games can [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 14th, 2009
So Logan’s preschool program was this morning. It’s the third one I’ve been to. It’s also the last one I’ll be attending, ever. For my kids, anyway. <<sniff>> The upside? His summer vacation has officially begun and he’s thrilled about it. He’s full of big plans for the summer, though most of them involve actual [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 13th, 2009
I grew up in a family of board game lovers. I remember going to my grandparents’ house where the adults would all play what seemed like endless games of Yahtzee. The sound of dice clunking around in a plastic cup will forever remind me of my paternal grandmother, who died from lymphoma when I was [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 12th, 2009
My colleague, Jenny, blogged about name popularity today over at Blogging Bout Boys. She gave a link to the Social Security Administration website, which allows you to look up names and their popularity through the years. It’s quite interesting. For example, Cody, who was named for his dad’s best friend, who died in a vehicle [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on May 11th, 2009
Most of my kids are bleary-eyed and grumpy in the morning and on school mornings, I almost always have to drag the boys out of their beds. It’s not a very pleasant job, especially when my natural state in the morning is not exactly conducive to rising with the sun either. By the time school [...]
