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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Family

How’s this for a writer’s life? Nothing that is going on right now—and there is a LOT going on—is suitable for blogging. I can’t talk about any of it. Privacy reasons, work reasons, my head is ready to pop and I can’t even work it out through writing it down. Which is a relief to some of you, I’m sure.

We love where we are living, but are paying a fortune to store our furniture while living in a furnished house with perpetual construction. Guy and I would like to consolidate households for all sorts of reasons but we live in different counties and between us have six children attending schools thirty miles apart. No matter what we did everyone would have to make major sacrifices. So that’s on the back burner.

Soon, I promise, something will break and I will be able to write more freely. Until then, well. I got all kids of trite and frivolous in reserve.

Monday, July 19, 2010 QOTD

Mom, your thigh is bigger than my head.
—Name Withheld

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Family

Congratulations to Denise Ziemann for winning the Organization of Mom’s $2,000 Grand Prize!

Her winning tip?

I made a school memories binder for each of my kids using an Avery 1 1/2” EZ turn ring binder and Avery Premium Heavyweight Sheet Protectors. Each grade is divided with Avery Tab dividers. Every year I have them fill out a template “questionaire” of all there favorites. I slip it in the beginning of the year along with anything else throughout the year I want to save. Art projects (if they are too big i take a picture and put the picture in), report cards, holiday cards from school, certificates, etc….

I have also laminated some of the special ones for extra protection.

The next phase is getting Avery baseball card sheet protectors and putting a wallet sized picture of the kids in each year!

Denise’s Three Avery School Memory Books

You can slip more than one project / card in the sheet protectors.

Even oversized or odd shaped projects will work in the sheet protectors.

Monday, July 12, 2010 Family

I was just in Cabo San Lucas for a few days as a guest of the Villa Group at Villa Palmar with four other lovely travel bloggers. I am furiously editing photos, and will be back to regular programming as soon as is motherly possible. The connectivity wasn’t great and when it was, it was expensive, so I apologize for the radio silence.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010 Family, Momversation

Short answer: No. Kiss mah grits!

Tell us if you feel more like a short-order cook than a willing parent when it comes to your own version of kitchen wars. Do you take multiple food requests at each meal? Do you agree with some of our featured mom bloggers that taking a hard line with your children about what you serve may actually be creating a fussier eater? Our feisty guest mom blogger Jennifer Brandt, asks other real moms to take a hard look at what goes on in the kitchen every day. (In fact, Jen says she offered her son no less than nine breakfast options today!) Our own lovely Jen is also the Managing Editor of our own parenting expert video site, Parents Ask, and she’d love to hear from you!