Stop & Shop is offering a great Back to School promotion, where you can save on both groceries and gas! Ends September 10! General Mills and Stop & Shop are teaming up to give families a great way to stock…
Category: Musings on the Home
Back-to-School with Peter Walsh
It’s that time of year again. Time to get kids ready to go back to school. Time to clear out last year’s backpack of papers and binders in time for this year’s papers and binders. I’ll let you in to…
Who Am I and Where Am I Going?
My new bio: Some days I am a stay-at-home mom who is a writer and other days I’m a writer who stays at home — depends on my mood. I can tweet with the best of them. I blog on…
SAHM Going Back to Work
I had my first child in 1996. From 96 through 2002 I was a freelance production editor for a health care publisher — the term WAHM had not been invented yet! Some weeks I was full time, other weeks part time.…
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…
Purex: Not Just Detergent
This is one of those times when I wish I was doing a giveaway. But, I’m not. So, you will have to be satisfied by a review…but it’s a good one! I’m not a “Yay, Let’s do housework!” kind of…
Rubbermaid Rocks: A Giveaway
Hands up if you have opened a kitchen cabinet and had Rubbermaid tubs and lids fall on you? *raising hand in the air* Hands up if you have searched in vain for a Rubbermaid lid or a tub? *hands waving…
Clorox Green Works: Giveaway
Hey folks! Welcome to the first giveaway on my new blog! The first of many more to come — judging by the stack on my dining room table, not that I’m procrastinating or anything. No, not me! A week or…
Blog Housekeeping
The winner of the That Baby DVD and CD has not responded. Tomorrow I will pick a new winner. I need to pick one winner each for the Subway/NIH We Can! and DrWeigh.com giveaways. Giveaway coming for Macaroni Grill gift…
Parenting Fail
Chris writes NotesfromtheTrenches a blog I read every day. I usually leave a comment because I relate to her she has preteens and teenagers as well as younger kids. She had a post today about ways she fails as a…