I wouldn’t say my blog is generally known as your one-stop source for all things domestic, but occasionally things do cross my path that I like to share. School starts on Monday, and while conventional wisdom says that my life should get much easier with four of my five kids gone for the day, the [...]

I have to admit, I was a little surprised to get 107 valid entries in the giveaway for the Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden CD/DVD, but it seems this is one popular crooner. (I know I enjoy him.) I had so much fun reading everyone’s concert experiences, so thanks for sharing! The giveaway ended [...]

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I would not have considered myself a “mall rat” growing up, but my twin sister and I did like to periodically take Golden Gate Transit to the Northgate Mall as teenagers and mill around for a little while. We always made a point of stopping in the Things Remembered store, slowly perusing the collection of [...]

An email I received today from a blogging friend: Hey I saw you in this month’s Redbook! I was at the Y and got all excited. It’s a good thing I was on the elliptical. Other than the bike, it was probably the safest. Congrats. Picture me checking the email address…reading the email again…and again.  [...]

The only things I really like about the film The Devil Wears Prada are Anne Hathaway’s bangs. I mean seriously – is she rocking those bangs, or what? We rented the movie when it first came out, and I didn’t like it then; it was just on tv the other night, and I don’t like [...]

Thank you, Spring, for this rejuvenation of spirit and burst of optimism.  A few fresh starts to take note of around here: our mourning doves are gone.  I am praying that they’ve found a new home with no sad associations, and that they are working on a new nest.  We’ve kept their old nest as [...]

Cynthia, The Good Enough Witch (and one of the Wii Mommies) is our guest blogger today as part of the Wii Mommies Blog Swing Party. Cynthia is a freelance writer and mommy living in Northern CA with her son Alex, hubby Dave, four cats and approximately 14 fish. Check out her blog www.TheGoodEnoughWitch.com as well [...]

Really.  Seriously.  Honestly. I know what you’re thinking.  Yanni? Some of the ladies and I at the Mom 2.0 Summit coined him the former Fabio of New Age Music. But now? Now is new. I posted a while ago about my own surprise at loving Yanni’s newest endeavor.  He has spent the past two years [...]

I don’t know how to explain the mix of emotions after coming home from something like the Mom 2.0 Summit.  I’m excited to keep up new connections and try out the new things I’ve learned.  I’m sad to return to a world that for the most part doesn’t understand or identify with what I’m so [...]