Molding Hard Boiled Eggs: Fun Breakfast or Snack (BENTO)

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Last year I discovered that you can mold hard boiled eggs into fun shapes using an egg mold and ice water. The process to shape the egg is quicker than boiling eggs and the result is cute and fun for children and adults. And it is a big hit in the bento community! To get… [Continue Reading]

New LEGO Friends – Gender Controversy over the New LEGO Friends?

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So, LEGO recently released a line of LEGOs that was designed with girls in mind under the theme LEGO Friends. And would you believe that it’s causing controversy? I only learned about it thanks to my friend Karen, who had a picture of her adorable daughter with a set on Facebook. I commented that I… [Continue Reading]

Ten Tips for Potty Training Boys

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I recently had an article published on SocialMoms.com called Ten Tips for Potty Training Boys. If these tips would be helpful to you or a friend, please pop on over and check it out! LINK: Ten Tips for Potty Training Boys

Lady Bugs – New to the World

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The tree in our front yard recently hatched hundreds of lady bugs, well larva I suppose. And the larva has recently started changing into the beautiful lady bugs we know and love! Here are some recent photos I took, including one that recently came out of its larva exoskeleton. As adult ladybugs, they will eat… [Continue Reading]

Three Fun Camera Apps for your iPhone

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The past few weeks I’ve been installing and playing with camera apps, to give my pictures some pizazz. What I did was make a Photography section on my iPhone and put all of them in there, so I am not searching like crazy when I want to use one of them. And thankfully, all of… [Continue Reading]

Winter Solstice Baby – Lochlan turned 4

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To a lot of my Facebook friends, this is old news. We celebrated my 4 year old son’s birthday WAY EARLY this year – on the 10th of December. His actual birthday was December 21st, the Winter Solstice! How cool is that? (No pun intended.) The funny thing is, my niece was born on the… [Continue Reading]

Happy Birthday to Me!

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I am officially …. 33 years old! YIKES! To celebrate we went out for Sushi at one of our favorite, local restaurants! YUM! Here is a pic with my two little boys after a wonderful dinner of sushi (me and Kevin), Lo Mein with Broccoli (Keeg) and Chicken Nuggets with French Fries (Lochlan). You gotta… [Continue Reading]

Good-Bye Summer (& Surfing Lessons)

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So, summer officially ended for us 1 week ago. We spent a lot of our vacation at the beach near Daytona. While there we celebrated my husband’s 32nd birthday – and I got him surfing lessons. And my youngest son was in awe – wanting to emulate his daddy and”surf” the shore on the boogie… [Continue Reading]

Lochlan’s Birthday Party

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My “baby” just had his third birthday party 2 weeks ago. He actually turns 3 on December 21st (today), but due to other obligations we usually can’t get all the friends and family together. So I tried to plan the party earlier and of course it backfired. Someone had a luncheon they were already going… [Continue Reading]

We Miss You, Mama!

Til We Meet Again

Something happened the other day to my family that really didn’t effect you -  my readers. You may have gotten my out-of-office on e-mail or seen that I was slower to end contests. My grandmother, Mama,  passed away at 81 from a stroke. She was a HUGE part of my family. She lived with my… [Continue Reading]

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