Dance Baby Dance

I love dance. No wait… I LOVE DANCE!! I’ve spent most of life dancing, performing for anyone who would pay attention. It wasn’t until I moved to San Diego 6 years ago that I stop professionally performing. Now I just put on shows around the house. From the moment I found out I was having [...]

Get Your Kids Up and Moving!

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Have you made your New Years Resolution to eat better and to work out more? What about your kids? According to the CDC, Childhood Obesity has tripled over the last 30 year.  TRIPLED!  We all know about the horrible diseases associated with obesity, so I’m not going to get into that. But here is some [...]

Picture Day? Nooooooo!!!

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Last night my husband and I had a “business” cocktail party we needed to attend.  You know, the kind of cocktail party where you need a few drinks just to make it through.  I had a few more than a few drinks last night.  I think I crawled into bed around 1ish.  I looked at [...]

Itsy Bitsy Halloween Fun

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One day last October I picked up Ellie from school and kept singing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”. The next day when I dropped her off at Pre-School I learned why. They had made these cute little “Spider House’s”.  The cutest part has to be the water spout with a spider ring on it.  They just [...]

One Year Ago

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One year ago today I was frantically running around packing, shopping for an appropriate outfit for Ellie, and booking plane tickets for that evening to Pennsylvania. The time had come to say goodbye to my grandpa. I knew it was coming. I thought I was ready. When I hugged and kissed him goodbye that summer, I told him [...]

Tornado Hit our Local Barnes and Noble

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So today I was going to continue the Social Media theme from the last 3 Mondays, but I’m so discussed with what I saw today that I’m going to put it off. Today (Sunday) I took my daughter to Barnes and Noble as a special treat.  We normally LOVE our trips to Barnes and Noble. [...]

Today I had a complete #failday

Last night before I went to bed I had a plan for today.  It all started to go wrong around 2am when Ellie woke up and had to potty. Repeat this step5 times over the next 4 hours.  I finally fall asleep only to wake up at 8:10 with school starting in 20 minutes!!! No [...]

Back to Blogging Day 3

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So day 3 was a little harder for me.  I’m not sure I’m overly proud of any of my posts.  Blogging/writing doesn’t come easy for me.  Being dyslexic means that what might take a normal person a few moments to read can take me up to 20 minutes.  Now imagine me try to proofread my own work. [...]

Back to Blogging Day 2

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This week I participating in the SITs Back to Blogging event.  Todays assignment is to Re-upload a post you wish more people had read and explain why it was important to you. I think todays is the easiest one for me and doesn’t really need any other explanation other than the actual post itself. Marriage Equality [...]

Clean up your room young lady!

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She’s going to be 4 in December.  At what age should kids be responsible to clean up their room? How much should they clean? How long should they clean? At what point do you throw in the towel and just do it for them?