12 foot-10,000 pound Monsters is coming to our backyard! {PROMO CODE}

And you better believe Peanut is on pins and needles impatiently awaiting their arrival! It will be a night of screaming and hollering as the girls and the boys bet which Monster Truck will outperform the other. Will it be the Grave Digger or will it be High Maintenance? Us girls know of course that [...]

The jiggles… {#Mamavation Monday}

I just came to a realization. One that sabotages every single effort of weight-loss in the past and one that ALMOST got to me this round while I was sick physically and probably emotionally the past 2 weeks… When I begin to lose the inches, my skin gets softer and of course jigglier in some [...]

Bobby Long {Music Review}

Bobby Long is a singer/songwriter from London with music that has a jazzy and folk sound to it. Life is written into his words and the combination of the sounds, his voice and those words will have you within your soul pondering life. You’ll have the repeat button on and shuffle off from other music. [...]

Motivation starts at home…{#Mamavation Monday}

Question: What motivates you to get going and what keeps you going? My kids are a big motivating factor because I want to have more energy to play with them and want to be around as long as possible to enjoy their big moments in life. I have to be a role model to them. [...]

ME Time!

Thanks to Crystal Light for sponsoring this post. To learn more about how Crystal Light can flavor your day with 30 refreshing flavors, visit http://www.facebook.com/crystallight. You wake up early, you rush through the morning, rush through the day whether it’s as a working parent or stay at home parent, chauffeur kids around to extracurricular activities, [...]

L-O-V-E, LOVE BABY!

Oh dear…that day is coming fast and if you’re like me you forgot all about it procrastinated and hadn’t really thought about it. (The man of my house had better NOT forget me since I did give birth for him!) What day you ask? Valentines day. I have friends who are anti-Valentines (some are even [...]

3.8 Pounds DOWN! {#Mamavation Monday}

Oh yeah, Oh yeah, doing the happy dance, shakin’ my tush! Oh the feeling of awesomeness knowing I’m finally losing weight again with my Weight Watchers and exercise program and it SHOWS! In fact…last night DH even said (as I’m bent over the sink brushing my teeth), “Wow, you’re #@% is getting smaller and rounder [...]

250 Business Cards {Giveaway}

I love contact cards aka business cards. Sure to some they seem archaic with all of our electronic devices out there, but I still love handing out a good looking card when I’m out and about. I use them for my book review site to hand out to authors, bookstores, giveaway winners, and the such. [...]

Opening Night is Coming Soon!

Oh boy are the kids excited for opening night of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus this coming Wednesday!  OK, so maybe I am too… I can’t wait to watch all the fun and daring acts as well as see all the fascinating things the animals can do. Little One tells me she [...]

And she continues going strong…{#Mamavation Monday}

Two weeks past, now on week 3, and I’m still exercising 5 of 7 days. I’ve been feeling great since I’ve gone back to exercising. When I quite smoking last October I had no idea how much smoking was taking my breath away and deterring me from keeping at my heart rate up long to [...]