This is the story of three friends: Lolli, Safire, and Rain. You know me – I’ve got 5 kids. Safire has 3 kids – a five year old girl and 3 year old twin boys. Rain has seven kids – Yes, 7. That’s 15 kids between the 3 of us, ranging in age from 19…
Archives for April 2011
Updating Traditions
Thank you to Log Cabin for sponsoring my post about updated traditions in my household. To learn more about Log Cabin Syrups (which are all free of High Fructose Corn Syrup), breakfast for dinner, and other new ways to update traditions in your home, click here. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever…
Spring Entertaining Live Chat
Chris from Celebrations at Home and I are so excited to be hosting a LIVE CHAT on Tuesday April 19th at 11:00am EST on the BlogFrog CoffeeTalk Community, where we are community leaders. We’ll be talking all about Easter and Spring Entertaining and can’t wait to share and gather ideas! I’m in the middle of…
Child Hunger Ends Here
There have been plenty of times in my life as a mother when I have wondered where money for milk or bread was going to come from. But somehow, thankfully, something has always fallen into place and I’ve had food to feed my kids. We’ve had challenges, but we’ve also been greatly blessed. Not every…
Where Are the Blossoms? PSF – GMYBS
After a morning blogger event in DC, I joined a few of my local blogger friends for a quick drive down to the National Mall to see the last of the season’s cherry blossoms. Note: no drive to Downtown DC can be considered “quick.” In fact 5 miles in DC will usually take about 30…
Monetizing Your Blog
I started blogging in 2007 as a hobby – more of an online, shareable scrapbook than anything else. Like many others entering the blogging world, I was clueless. I didn’t know the terms of the trade – blogosphere…html…social media…monetize. And I certainly couldn’t have predicted how much I would end up loving blogging. As my…
When They Grow Up
One of MamaKat’s writing prompts, inspired by Leslie from Motherhood in Mexico, jumped out at me today. It could have something to do with the fact that KitKat and I were discussing whether or not she’d make a good lawyer on Monday. Or maybe not. Either way, I thought it would be fun to predict…
Enough Pictures, Mom! A Wordless Wednesday Link-up
I volunteered as a parent-helper for school picture day today. I think I’m rather pictured-out, too. Linked up to Wordful Wednesday, Wordish Wednesday, and Wordless Wednesdays all over. Are you playing along with Wordless or Wordful Wednesday today? Link up! Want to grab my button?
I Have an Announcement to Make….
Did I catch your attention? No, I don’t have any birth announcements to send out (and I won’t have any coming up any time soon, either, so don’t ask). I may still be in shock that I have a child old enough to be in high school, but luckily I’ve still got a few years…
Sour Cream Coffee Cake Breakfast Cupcakes
Please excuse the cell phone picture of these cupcakes. I baked these solely for the intent to eat them (which I happily did) but after I posted the picture of Instagram, I had more requests for the recipe than I was expecting… So, for those of you waiting, and those of you who are…