Eating Healthy for Kids. Horizon Dairy Live Chat!

January 25, 2012

You guys know I’ve been doing the whole eat-healthy-and-stop-being-lazy cooking from home thing this month, right?! Well, I’ve also been proudly leading the Horizon Dairy Healthy Families Community with a bunch of other seasoned healthy eaters. Yep, trying the whole learning by doing approach to healthy living. I used to be really good about blaming [...]

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Wordful Wednesday. How to Throw a Ninja Birthday Party.

January 24, 2012

And, exhale. The ninja party is officially over! I can feel your excitement over this development.  Or maybe it is just that my very own excitement over putting this shindig behind me is just so very great. I don’t know. Either way, it’s over and done with. Never to be resurrected again (I have a [...]

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Dumb Mom’s Guide. Google Friend Connect is Dying So What Now?

January 23, 2012

Something scary is just about to happen in the land of the blog. Google Friend connect is dying! **Insert ominous music** So, what does that mean for all of you lovely people who at some point, rather by force or by choice, pressed the follow button over there in the pBd sidebar? I’m not entirely [...]

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Dude, Awesome! Raising Genderless Children.

January 23, 2012

This week was supposed to mark the inauguration of Dude, Awesome! And, while it still is sorta, I had a last minute change of heart and decided to write about my Dudes (I know, again) and how I am so utterly proud of their dudeness. Probably you’ve seen these news headlines recently about parents who [...]

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TGIPinterest. Join Me for a Pin This Challenge!

January 20, 2012

I’m in the mood for newness in 2012, can you tell? pBd got a facelift (didya notice? Please say you noticed!), I’m living a life of depravity, and now I’m fully accepting that I probably have something of a borderline obsessive disorder of some sort (that does NOT require intervention, because if you try try [...]

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Writer’s Workshop. Breakfast of Champions.

January 19, 2012

I made an insane number of resolutions this year. I know, the wrong thing to do because they weren’t entirely realistic, and they aren’t completely manageable, and forget about starting small; I’m a go big kinda girl myself. I don’t know if I was inspired by the fact that the world is slated to end, [...]

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Horizon Dairy Live Chat. How Do You Keep Your Family Active and Healthy?!

January 19, 2012

Being healthy is something that I strive to achieve in my personal and family life. Fortunately, I have three of the most active humans living under my roof and finding ways to stay active isn’t too hard.  Plus, with my new Eating Real Simple BY Dummies challenge to cook healthier at home in 2012 well [...]

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Wordful Wednesday. Dude in a Bowtie.

January 18, 2012

Welcome to another week of Wordful Wednesday! This week I’m bringing you the requisite birthday post you knew to expect because it’s #3’s birthday week and I am sadly predictable. Only, guess what?! His birthday is not even today! Ha! How’s that for predictable?! This is me trying to throw off all of the kid [...]

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Seeking a Sitter. How to Find Reliable Childcare.

January 17, 2012

In the form of someone who is human, not insane, relatively cleanly in their mind and body, and eager to be surrounded by egomaniacs who scream all day a lover of small, sticky-fingered children. Know anyone? Because, lemme just tell you, reliable childcare is hard to find. At least for someone like myself who is [...]

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