1. Mom to three children: Crafty Daughter, 12; Sporty Daughter, 10; and Adventure Boy, 5. Married to Coach Dad: a former high school English teacher and volleyball coach, now a school administrator. 2. In a previous life, I was a…
Category: Family
Trying to be a good Catholic parent and other musings from me
NaBloPoMo is over. I posted all but one day of November. I tried to use the schedule feature to post, but lost track of days. A valiant effort. I will say one thing…I plan on keeping up the pattern of…
Reuniting Old Friends with a wii
I have spent the last month or so making connections over the web, joining Facebook, starting a blog, twittering…basically spreading myself around the internet. If I am honest with myself I am not doing just such a great job keeping…
Black Friday or Why I Felt the Need to Brave the Crowds on the Busiest Day of the Year
Black Friday is a word that strikes energy and excitement in many diehard shoppers. I have heard families planning their shopping strategy on Black Friday with the precision of a military strike. I am not one of those people. I…
Love Thursday — Happy Thanksgiving!
This is a quick one tonight. I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. We are just finishing up our evening at my parent’s house. We started out at my in laws for lunch. Two huge meals in one day.…
Wordless Wednesday — Timeout Step
My son is beginning to read. We have labeled many items in the house, including the timeout step. Sad, but true.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Fastfood
Love, love that I have written two posts about our attempt to curb our consumption of FastfooD otherwise known as the Mom on the Run FastfooD Ban and I have an ad on this site for Wendy’s. I needed a…
NaBloPoMo Oooops I Messed Up! or SuperVolunteer Is Ready
Well, I tonight I had a post ready and raring to go. Nope, did not happen. Well, I am going to promise to get back on track. Some housekeeping issues: Mom on the Run Family’s Fast Food Ban — Broke…
Hi, I’m Mom on the Run….
I’m adding this weight loss ticker here in the hopes that it acts as a motivation for me to exercise more often. With diet (another post needed for this topic) and exercise, I would like to get to my goal…
Birthday Party Dilemmas
We used to do at-home parties for friends and family–parties were too big and caused problems for birthday child. By the time each child was 5, we moved on to doing two parties, one for friends and one for family–it…
