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My husband works with computers for a living, and I’m a blogger. You would think that with all the time we spend on our computers that surely our kids must be playing computer games. The answer is no. It’s not that we have strong opinions against kids playing computers games. It’s [...]

For the past 15 months I’ve been “building” a business associated with my passion for health advocacy, mainly associated with infertility. Until this venture I considered myself fairly successful in my career. In college I pursued an accounting degree and landed a good job with a national accounting firm. I had decent success in that [...]

Time was I would be painfully generous to my kids. Not just buying them fashions they wanted, even if they were expensive, but littler things – barrettes for my daughter, ping pong balls for my son, music for both of them. Whatever they wanted, I’d do my best to make sure they had it. I’m [...]

I am overwhelmed. It happens this time every year. Stress and anxiety roll down the snowy mountainside gaining in size and momentum. It sets in the same week every year. This week. It means I am always tired but never able to sleep. It means I put off the [...]

Last week I got together with a friend of mine who is expecting her first child. After talking about various baby care products, birthing stories and who knows what else she turned to me and said, “Friends told us that with kids instead of getting anxious about too far into the future, you should [...]

I am trying to make a clean start in my home office, which ends up being the “nerve center” of the house and all activities, so it’s best if we start there, right?

As I start the shoveling and debridement, I am finding items and developing a pet peeve that was starting to bother me, and [...]

Oooookay. Last week we talked about getting the house ready for the holidays. Hopefully you’ve gotten a start on that. I started thinking about it. That counts.
This week, let’s think about gifts. Yup, I just mentioned Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gifts in early October. Hey, I saw a mummy [...]

Today is Blog Action Day and in order to raise awareness and initiate action 20,000 bloggers are writing about the same topic: Poverty.
According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, nearly 4 in 10 children in the US live in poverty. According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day due [...]

Last week I mentioned how often I get bored with food. It’s bugged me all week, quite frankly. I don’t like sounding so ungrateful. There are people right in my area who struggle to put food on the table each day, and here I am complaining about variety. With colder weather coming [...]

A couple of years ago a friend and I decided to learn how to do the bulk cooking thing.  We looked at Once a Month Cooking, read several cookbooks on the subject, and also referred to the 30DayGourmet site.  Early attempts included a long day of cooking together and resulted in a lot of casseroles [...]