I think the best job in the world is to be a writer for children’s books. And the job of Publishing Children Books what a joy I think it is. To be able to mold children’s mind or even just 1 mind. I wonder what it felt like to be Dr. Seuss. My child’s first book was Green Eggs and Ham. How she loved that book. That book was the only thing I could ...
I knew going into it there was no way that I would meet that goal. (Hello, defeatist attitude!!) It was a nice challenge to see just how much I could read in a year and even though I’ve only read 20 books to date I think that’s a pretty good number given the fact that I’m a single Mom of an 8 year old and a 2 year old (who until just recently wasn’t ...
Today I was struggling to find something to write. Lately I’ve had these woe is me posts. There are times when it’s nice to receive a Meme because it can snap you out of your own writers funk. Instead of another… “poor me poor me” post I can be handed the outline of what to write and just write it. Anyway, UU (He’s a birthday boy by the way ...
Recently I have read two books back to back about personal journey. One was eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert and the second I just finished reading tonight. I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio by Jean Feraca. Jean Feraca is a name that will be recognized by anyone who listens to Wisconsin Public Radio. The very first Wisconsin Public ...
My 7 year old loves to read. She has benefited from having a Mom who loves to read and has grown up surrounded by as much written material as possible. In college I wrote a research paper on literacy socialization in the home of preschool children and both of my daughters are well socialized by the written word. My seven year old has seen how much reading ...
This week has been tough. Swamped with work, there were only 2 days where I reached more than 10K steps. The goal was to do that for 3 days in a week. I was only able to do EA Sports Active More Workouts for 3 days instead of 4 ...
Can’t believe it’s been eight weeks already since I started my journey to fitness with my Mamavation family. The support I get from the group is unbelievable, not to mention accountability, which has helped me maintain my motivation ...
I stepped on the scale this morning and saw that I lost 1.5 lbs this week! Yay me! So happy to see the scale move a little after how many weeks of not moving at all. So I’m happy to report my progress for the week to my Mamavation ...
This week I got a new toy to play with. My new EA Sports Active More Workouts arrived just in time for review. I got done with the 30-day challenge (from EA Sports Active Trainer) last week so I transitioned over to the More Workouts ...
Successes: I am officially done with the EA Sports Active 30-day challenge. Yay me! My EA Sports Active More Workouts has arrived this week. Just in time! I’ll start with the six week-challenge tomorrow. I will have more details ...
I always look forward for this weekly post as I get to share my successes and challenges in my journey to fitness as part of the Mamavation campaign. Successes: Right on track with the EA Sports Active. Three more workout days and ...
Here’s my progress report for the week on our fitness family efforts as part of the Mamavation campaign: Successes: Hubs and I were able to complete day 17 of the EA Sports Active 30 day challenge. Woot! Woot! I stepped on the scale ...
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When we got the Hip Hop Baby: Get Healthy, Get Fit DVD, my kids were very anxious to watch it. Both of them are into dancing and music so they were so excited to see it. I liked the fact that it promotes health ...
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I’m sitting across the table from death. Once again he and I are staring into each others eyes over cups of coffee. Decaf for him he had a good nights sleep. He brought up my own mortality this time and that ...
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