An organization called Green Halloween is helping thousands of people come together on October 8th to swap costumes.
Read more »Earlier this week I was having lunch with one of my dearest friends and she told me she has been offered an amazing work opportunity. She seemed so trepidatious, though. It turns out some of the people she currently works with have been a little passively aggressively negative about her move. My guess would be out of jealousy.We all have these people in our lives. You know who they are in yours.
Read more »If you would like to start a blog and have no idea where to begin, I can help. First, you need to know that there are two types of blogs: self-hosted (Wordpress.org) and free (Wordpress.com and Blogger). My advice is ask yourself, “Do I want the public to be able to find my blog or do I just want to write for my family?”
Read more »When I started the hunt for room layout sites I had pretty low expectations thanks to my paint experiment. However, thanks to a little plug in Real Simple magazine I found homestyler.com. In 15 minutes I had completely laid out my office as you see it below.
Read more »This spring I discovered an amazing magazine just for kids that’s all about healthy eating and activities. It’s a little advanced for my punkin’ but it will come in handy down the road. For those of you who have school-aged kids it’s worth checking out.
Read more »The web is part of our lives now. It’s no longer a novelty and we no longer look at it. We are a part of it.
Read more »Feelings of hopelessness have haunted me for these three years. I’ve felt like we would live with this thirty minute drive through a ridiculous speed-trap town and long cow pastures forever. The feelings of hopelessness were occasionally relieved by overwhelming feelings of guilt for feeling hopeless when at least I have a roof over my head, two cars, a handsome husband and a spirited, beautiful daughter.
Read more »Kids bring home gazillions amounts of papers from everywhere don’t they? And each one your child touches seems like gold. I know, it really does. But it’s not. Unlike gold, if you keep every single picture your child drew, painted, or touched it would become less valuable. Why? Because it suddenly becomes a space hog.
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