What question perplexes me most on forms and questionnaires? The question I find most difficult to answer is what major city do I live closest to? As a child through my pre-children years, I would have had several answers: 0-4…
Category: home improvements
Casting Call for TLC’s Home Made Simple
Are you or someone you know a candidate for TLC’s exciting home show, “Home Made Simple”! The show is looking for married couples who own their own house and would like for our chef, decorator, and handyman to spruce up…
Giveaway: Junk Has Met Its Match with Rubbermaid
My house is not what you would call neat. Our piles of paper sprout piles of paper. If the surface is flat — there will be a a mound perched precariously on top. The floor is littered with sports bags,…
How Old Is That Mattress in the Window?
Is there a magic number for when you buy a new mattress? 10?15? 20 years? Our mattress is pushing 20 years old. It still works…and by works I mean all the springs are functional and the mattress cover is not…
My Bedroom
The title of this post says it all. After almost 20 years of marriage I still refer to the master bedroom as “my bedroom.” I chose the bedding color, the furniture (with input from the husband), and the wall art. What…
Blinds.com: Raising the Bar for Blind Safety
As a new mom I was hyper concerned with safety. Danger lurked around every corner for my baby. I sterilized bottles and pacifiers. I kept medications out of reach. I safety-proofed the house top and bottom. I thought I was…
I’m Going to TypeAMom!
I started writing for TypeAMom almost a year ago. In fact here’s one of my first articles on homework. Almost a year later I am now the Preteens Editor at TypeAMom. I write from the experience of surviving one preteen and…
Real Simple: Solutions to Every Day Problems
From Real_Simple… There is finally a solution to rock hard brown sugar! Real Simple suggests throwing two marshmallows in the open bag of brown sugar so the next time you make oatmeal, the brown sugar will be just as soft…
Consignments R Us
I recently entered typeamom.net’s That’s Ingenious Challenge. The challenge was to come up with an invention/solution to a sticky problem — this is not quite the wording, but that’s my interpretation anyway. My answer: I’m a consigner. I might even call myself…
We Have a Winner! (and) Why Is My House falling Apart?
Daddy of twins is the winner of the Yoplait giveaway. His prize will go out this week. I have a couple of other giveaways. Be on the lookout… My house, my house. What am I going to do with it?…
