Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for my RSS feed or automatic email updates - it’s free!Today, I’m making the dreaded trip to CostCo to buy an over-sized box of Pull-ups for my youngest. Frankly, I’m tired of making these trips. With the spacing of my children, I [...]

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It’s been just over a week since the kick off of Mommy Summer Camp 2008 and things have gone really well! The kids are happy, the house isn’t a wreck and I’m actually finding time to get my work done without any stress or disruption. But today, I discovered a flaw in my “perfect” plan [...]

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How many times, in desperate frustration, have you asked your kids, husband, friend or co-worker/staff, “Are you listening to me?” Listening is the key to effective communication. Yet, after more than 18 years of education, spanning from Kindergarten to graduate school, I never took a single class on the most important communication tool of all [...]

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Well, we survived the first day of Mommy Summer Camp with great success!
Adorned in our homemade camp tees, we must have actually looked like an organized camp as we trotted around town for our daily camp activities. At the end of the day, the kids all agreed, “That was the best day ever Mom!” Plus, [...]

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Normally, I fork over hundreds of dollars during the summer months to put each of my three kids into a full-time summer day camp program. Ideally, I prefer to work from home without the distraction of my kids, so sending them off each morning makes perfect sense…at least a few days a week. That was [...]

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