First-time cookbook author Linda Bechtel recently held a book signing and cooking demo event at Surfas Culinary District, which is this awesome restaurant supply store. If you are a foodie, chef or home cook, you would surely be in heaven at Surfas. Every week, they have cooking demonstrations. I attended Linda Bechtel’s session where she [...]
The Color Run™: a Mommy and Me Experience
Guest Blogger Cristina Peczon-Rodriguez takes on a colorful local 5k race with her son. If ...
Leaning In or Reaching Out
Much fuss has been made recently about Sheryl Sandberg’s new book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead.” I have only read the first two chapters of the book so far, but what struck me about the title (and its attendant message) is the visual and kinesthetic idea of “leaning in”. My initial [...]
Movie Monday: Iron Man 3
If you are a Robert Downey, Jr fan and/or a Superhero fan, then you must be excited to see Iron Man 3 this Friday. Here’s a clip from the movie just for you. Tell us what you most look forward to about the movie in the comments below.
A Mother’s Letter to Her Son
A letter to my Sun by Dagmar Ebaugh (decaturmamaoftwo) Dear Max: Six years ago on April 19th my life changed forever as we welcomed YOU, our first child, our son, into our hearts and lives. My universe shifted on its axis and suddenly you became its center. In the past six years, I’ve watched [...]
Movie Monday: Fasten Your Seatbelts for ‘Disney’s Planes’
Isn’t it interesting how little kids can be obsessed or shall we say passionate about one thing and from there is born a Disney movie or some other cartoon franchise? Well, what I mean is… remember the movie “Cars?” Every kid who loves cars loved the movie “Cars.” Every kid that was into trains got [...]
Movie Monday: Oz the Great and Powerful
Raise your hand if the last movie you’ve seen was a kid movie? Raise your hand if you’ve seen a movie at the movie theater recently. Thanks for the show of hands, that’s what I thought. I haven’t been to a movie theater in a while, and the last time I did, it was at [...]
Time for Spring Cleaning
Open those windows and let the sunshine in. It’s spring! Here are some spring cleaning tips I gathered from around the interwebs. [View the story "Spring Cleaning Tips from the Web" on Storify] Spring Cleaning Tips from the Web The weather is warmer. The days are longer. And that Goodwill stack you’ve set aside is [...]
Holiday Overload
I didn’t write any special posts or make anything green or even wear anything green for this past St. Patrick’s Day. It isn’t a holiday I’ve ever celebrated and my kids, thankfully, didn’t mind not finding any leprechaun tricks at home. Maybe, like me, they are suffering from holiday overload. My friend Kristen Howerton aka [...]
Teaching Our Kids About Feelings
As I was rocking and singing with our daughter before bed tonight, she told me, “Mommy, I sad”. So I asked her why she was sad, and she replied, “Actually (yes, our two-year-old says actually), I angy.” Hmmm – my first instinct was to burst out with “Oh, don’t be angry, sweetie!”. But I stopped [...]
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