One morning last week, in the crisp-ish Fall air, I took our puppy, Oliver for a walk/run in the park not too far from our house. There is a long and dusty or muddy (depending on how much rain we have or haven’t had lately) trail that circumvents the playgrounds, basketball courts and duck pond….
Halloween, Twenty Fourteen!
This Halloween included a photo shoot along with Mummy dogs and of course, Trick-or-Treating! This mural is on a game/comic book store not too far from our house and the boys were especially “game” (ha! I crack myself up!) to take their picture in front of it. After that we hung out in our…
A Letter to My Tween Son
Dear Ben- I will be honest with you from the start, I had no idea what I was really getting into when I had you. And when I say that I mean I had NO IDEA how much I was going to love you. No concept of what it would be like in my heart…
What ARE We (AM I) Doing??
I recently read this article by Allison Slater Tate – Parenting as a Gex-Xer: We’re the first generation of parents in the age of iEverything. If you are about the same age as me and you read this you will be nodding your head the entire time, I promise. I can relate to everything she…
InnoTab 3 Plus Learning Tablet {Review & GIVEAWAY}
There are a few (AHEM) devices around our house. There is one in particular that I bought for myself for my birthday a couple of years ago and it is this neat, little device that I can read on, write on and do a bunch of other things with. Unfortunately my children like to commandeer it…
Hey Ellen!
There’s an older man in our neighborhood that I met through the local running club (I was briefly a member) and he lives on the next street. EVERY TIME he sees me run or walk by his house he hollers, “Hey Ellen!” I guess when we were introduced he never heard my name correctly and I simply do…
Old School Blogging – A Few of My Favorite Things
I know, now you cannot stop singing, “these are a few of my favorite things…” No? Just me? Krysytn from Really, Are You Serious? and I have come up with a little list of some of our favorite things and we want you to share yours too. This is REALLY Old School, right? I have…
#IAmAGoodMom Instagram Fun!
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called ‘I Am Such A Good Mom’, because I wanted to start a movement of positivity and encouragement for moms. So often, we mothers are quick to put ourselves down, and miss all the moments when we ARE good, even great. My friend Alison loved this idea so…
My Crazy Awesome Kids
One morning recently I took a quick walk through my neighborhood as my exercise for that day. It was great weather and other people were out and about as well. On one of the blocks I saw my neighbor friend’s two boys riding their scooters. As I passed them I said, “Hey guys” and one…
Minted {A Giveaway}
I have a slight obsession with paper, I always have. I used to love to cut up magazines and make collages and I love to write on paper (although I do not do it often enough anymore). In the past I have been known to spend a long time in a stationary or scrapbooking store,…