5 Ways to Be a Good Potluck Dinner Guest Potlucks are a very popular way for church and school groups or large offices to throw a celebration with lots of food. It keeps costs down and you get a huge variety of food for relatively little work on the hosts part. People are typically split down the middle when it…
Week of Giving Begins April 25th! When it comes to our kids and hospitals, almost everyone has a story and with any luck it’s not a big story but rather a smaller one. For us it was a brief time period when our oldest was going thru tests in Philadelphia to see if she had a blood disorder – luckily…
We’re a stressed out group of people, aren’t we? We stress over the kids, the marriage, the job, the money, the bills, the car. The only thing we don’t stress about is stress itself. My Grandfather’s wife sent this via email today and I just loved it. It was sent with the “pass this on to 10 people” line (hate…
It was bound to happen sooner or later… In my opinion, Camel City Dispatch is THE source for news in our town and the Editor, Chad Nance, will occasionally grab some of my articles and use them in their parenting section. We’ve become friends over the past couple of years or so and share similar attitudes towards parenting and life in…
Children of the 80’s, this post is for you. Why? Because I’m going to let you in on a secret: Everything I know about blogging, I learned from Journey. Go ahead and think about that for a second. While you’re at it, grab your Sony Walkman because by the time I’m finished, you’ll be looking for your cassette tape of…
The Rooster and the kids always try to stock my shelves with lotion and shower gel at Christmas time. And either my skin is really dry and Steve’s trying to tell me something or he forgot to do inventory before he left, because this year they gave me 6 lotions and no shower gel. So my options were to either exchange some…
The number one reason clients work with is because they either don’t have the time to handle social media or they don’t have the knowledge—usually a little bit of both. Quite often they jump into social media and think that devoting five minutes a day to it will net results, which is just not the case… at least not at first….
I saw a post this past weekend (on Cathy E’s Facebook page!!) of the tribute to Billy Joel when he received his Gershwin Prize and it was… a celebrity filled sing-along of Piano Man and was fabulous, of course! I started thinking abotu all the incredible songs that we all sing really, really loudly when we hear and them especially if…
And so we end another year. May you bid adieu to 2014 and welcome 2015 with someone you love and may all your hopes and goals come to be!! Thank you for being part of my life – no matter how crazy it can be 😉 Getting the kiddie #nye mocktails ready! 5 mins and counting! A photo posted by…