Motherhood

Save Time and Send a Digital Holiday Card This Year – For Free

12.07.11

I love getting my mail this time of year. Receiving holiday cards and letters with pictures of my friends and family always brings a smile to my face. Thankfully, I’ve mailed all of my Christmas cards and I’m relieved to have one more task checked off of my Christmas to-do list. Yay! Are your Christmas cards signed, sealed and delivered? Has time slipped through your fingers and you forgot to purchase cards? Time passes too fast for me and if I didn’t make our Christmas cards before Thanksgiving, I’d be stressing out too! Don’t worry if you think it’s too late to send holiday cards. Punchbowl is making it easy to send beautiful, free digital holiday cards! You can digitally send your friends and family holiday cards with personal pictures and let them know you’re thinking of them this holiday season. Punchbowl offers digital greeting cards that have the...

Burning the Midnight Oil

11.21.11

It looks like I’ll be burning the midnight oil on Christmas Eve. When a Christmas package was delivered to our house, my 2-year-old princess ran, grabbed her keys and tried with all her might to carve the box open. After her failure to open the box, she begged me to open it for her. I had to look inside and tell her the store sent an empty box. Needless to say, the screaming and crying began, followed by the comment, “Come on man.” With her persistence no wrapped Christmas gift will be safe or untouched under our Christmas tree. Luckily, big brother is at school all day and it is much easier to hide his presents. Maybe he’ll keep the Christmas gift mystery alive, but I highly doubt it. I hope I have a lot of hiding places and plenty of boxes to hide their presents!

Outrageous Outrage?

09.02.11

“I spit out my cheerios…” “Sometimes something is so wrong you can’t believe it’s real.” “Please sign this petition, your daughter will thank you.” – an email I received. J.C. Penney was forced to remove the shirt “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me” after an uproar this week in social media land. Is it just selective outrage? I haven’t read or heard any outrage over these Girl Power shirts by David and Goliath. And I haven’t heard a peep from anyone screaming to ban these kids shirts from David and Goliath. Thankfully, David and Goliath have posted on their landing page “our apparel is stupid”, but I’m sure there is someone out there with too much time on their hands trying to ban David and Goliath. I agree with Ricky Gervais when he said, “You have the right to be...

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

05.20.11

I’m getting ready to take a shower when I hear my 2-year-old screaming at the top of lungs. I find her sitting next to the shower crying hysterically. I immediately thought to myself, “did she fall down? Did she step on something?” No, there was a spider crawling down her leg! I pulled her away from the shower and began to feverishly brush the spider off of her. Her screams were louder and her tears were falling harder. Finally, I pushed the nasty little spider off of her. I’ve never heard her scream so loud or cry so hard in my life. She handles her vaccinations better than this. I wrapped her up in her towel and tried to comfort her by rocking her. After an hour of screaming, I finally checked her for any bites. I didn’t see anything but flushed skin. I gently put her on the...