The boy finally gets a pet! I didn’t grow up with pets. Well, I won a fishie or two from the local fair. You know the fishies that you put in a small glass bowl. When you are a little…
Category: Musings on Family
Back to School: Keeping Track of Your School Uniform with @Mabelhood #buzzmama
A few weeks ago three generations of women in my family shopped. For two of the generations, shopping is as easy as breathing. For one — me — I avoid shopping like the plague. I don’t shop til I drop.…
5 Parenting Tips from a Not-So-Perfect Parent
I’m not a perfect parent. Let’s just get that out of the way…in case they were any questions. Though I provide parenting tips and anecdotes about my family’s adventures on this blog and the other sites I write for. I’m…
Thursday at #BlogHer12 (Part 1)…Dreaming of #BeachesResort
A vacation should be relaxing. Stress free. A welcome distraction from life back home. That’s the theory anyway. I’ve heard rumors of relaxing vacations. Ones where you sip a drink while relaxing by the pool. You sleep in or get…
Wordless Wednesday: How Did He Get So Big?? #seizingfamilytime #hersheypark
Seizing Family Time with Kaboom Kids movie titles #seizingfamilytime
I saw very few movies growing up. I lived in England as a very young child, and then again from about age 10 onwards. I can count on one hand the movies I saw in a movie theater. No joke.…
Back to School: School Bus or Car Pool?
This morning was a little less rushed than the previous two days. Why? One reason, and one reason only. Car pools rock on the day you DON’T have to do the car pool. This week I’ve juggled drives to and…
Eye Glass Selection Made Easy #rivetandsway
I shared my journey to perfect vision with all of you a couple of days ago. I was a glasses wearer, a contact lens only wearer, a contact lens and sometimes glasses wearer, and finally a glasses only wearer. I…
Winners! Calling All Winners!
After BlogHer and a week at the beach, I’m finally getting back in to the swing o’ things. Truthfully I worked while in New York and at the beach ‘cos a blogger has gotta do what a blogger has to…
Preschoolers Head Back to School with Super Why
Saw this in my in box and I had to share… Reading, writing, arithmetic…and tech? According to a new study from market research firm NPD Group, kids are increasingly adopting tech. In fact, tablet usage among kids increased 13% from…
