Date Nights? Do you remember them? I have vague memories of when going on date nights was very easy. Lately with kids in a multitude of activities and general family exhaustion from our hectic schedule, date nights are few and…
Category: Musings on Family
Date Night? I Vaguely Remember…
Date night? What’s that? I thought when my children got older that we would be gadding about all over the place. So not true. Even with a built-in babysitter — my teen is a very responsible 15-year-old — we rarely…
Oyster Locals: The Search for Gourmet Food Trucks in D.C.
I’m at it again! I’m over at Oyster Locals Blog dishing on gourmet food trucks in D.C. and the role twitter plays. ___ You have to be living under a rock to NOT know what Twitter is. This townhall meeting/news…
Holiday Gift Guide and Giveaway — Dora’s Christmas Carol DVD and CD [Giveaway] [Closed]
When my daughter was 2, she loved all things Dora and Diego and Boots. She had the backpack and a range of Dora DVDs. I remember several car trips that were more bearable for all of us with a Dora…
Yogurt Is My Go-to Lunch Choice for Me and the Kids [Giveaway] [Closed]
In the early days of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, yogurt was my go-to food option. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Snack. Yogurt was a very useful and nutritious option. Of course there was that one incident where my “I won’t eat anything…
Join Me in the #NewYearNewMe Challenge
As of July 2010 Mark Zuckerberg reported that a whopping 500 million people all around the world actively use Facebook to stay connected with friends. Add in twitter users — recently estimated as over 25 million users worldwide — and…
A Pain in My Neck and other Holiday Woes [Giveaway] [Closed]
I sit at my desk each morning. I cradle a cup of coffee. I breath a sigh of relief that all three children are headed to school. As the rush rush of the morning wake ups, lunch packing, and school…
Decluttering 101
In response to @1momof5‘s post over at Mom It Forward, I left this comment, which I added to. I have a large basement storage room…too big, really. I reorganized the storage room by moving items I never use but can’t…
Holiday Gift Guide: #Zhuniverse Fun with #KungZhu Pets
My kids like any other kids love toys. No surprise there. We buy more than our fair share of toys. As a mom blogger who reviews toys, I review toys before the toys hit the shelves. And by review I…
New on Oyster Locals Blog…Dining in D.C. at Filomena
For my husband’s birthday dinner, my parents offered to take our family out to Filomena, a Georgetown institution. We readily agreed. It’s funny how you can live in a city for years and think you know every landmark, museum, restaurant,…
