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Bring Your Brave and fight Breast Cancer.

October 19, 2015 1 Comment

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Bring Your Brave campaign for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Stupid cancer!  I hate it.  In all its forms… I hate it.   My boys lost their father to colon cancer, and I lost a sweet friend to […]

Filed Under: Keepin' It real, Real Life, Tales To Tell

Shoe stories. You can’t make this up.

September 3, 2014 Leave a Comment

As the mom of boys, there are just times when I just shake my head. There are times when I know I should investigate a situation fully, but I really just don’t know that I want the answers. It was time for Grant’s JiuJitsu class and he was getting dressed and ready to go.  Normally […]

Filed Under: Exchange of the Day, family, Funny, Grant, just funny, Keepin' It real, No Mom wants to hear...

Instagram’s negative affect on my blogging.

April 16, 2014 9 Comments

I love Instagram.  I love to check out the photos in my home feed.  I love to quickly post a photo and see who liked it, and engage in comments back and forth.  It’s fast and easy to pop up a fun photo and be done with it.  However, I have recently come to realize […]

Filed Under: blogging, Keepin' It real, Real Life

Hamster shenanigans and a 10 year old’s building plans.

March 21, 2014 6 Comments

Last night as I was preparing to go to bed, a quick, scurrying movement caught my eye. Hamster. On the loose. Oy. Grant often takes “Speedy” out of his cage for play time and on occasion does not get his cage properly closed up again. Handsome Hubby was already asleep, and I did my best […]

Filed Under: family, Funny, Grant, Handsome Hubby, hilarious, Keepin' It real, Real Life

Packing up Christmas (and ready for next year!)

January 4, 2013 4 Comments

The best and easiest way to organize and store Christmas decorations? Organize them by color.

Filed Under: Christmas, Holidays, Keepin' It real, organization, planning ahead, Simple, Tip of the Day

My First Pumpkin of the Season… and it’s a total Craft Fail.

September 4, 2012 14 Comments

It’s September!  I am so ready to start thinking Fall! Unfortunately, I am kicking off the season with a Craft Fail. Last week I shared my big, fat feather failure…  Well I had set some of the orange ones aside. This is what happens when you cross a pumpkin with a Muppet. Please believe me […]

Filed Under: Big Time Fail, craft time, Fall, Halloween, Keepin' It real, Pumpkins

Summer’s here! How to choose a sunscreen.

June 12, 2012 14 Comments

Sunscreen. This isn’t anything new or earth-shattering… but I cannot, for the life of me, keep it straight.I figure that there might be other people like me, who for some reason can’t manage to retain this information.  Every year, I ask myself these same questions: What does SPF stand for…?  (And what do the different numbers […]

Filed Under: health, Health & Beauty, Keepin' It real, Let me help you, medical, planning ahead, Tip of the Day, Tips & Tricks

The one where Southern California weather jacked up my Christmas decor.

December 17, 2011 20 Comments

It’s Christmas time!  Perfectly trimmed trees… angelic children, playing nicely in front of a roaring fireplace… the delicious smell of holiday baking, wafting through the house…  wrapping and shopping are done… That’s the image that many of the gorgeously decorated homes all over the internet are showing us. But there are a few brave bloggers […]

Filed Under: Big Time Fail, Christmas, Crafts, decor, just funny, Keepin' It real

Why I expect a lot of work out of my kids. (And why I don’t pay them all that much for doing it.)

September 29, 2011 Leave a Comment

I have four boys. I want my future daughters-in-law to like me. Therefore, my boys need to be fairly self sufficient and need to know how to clean up after themselves.  That requires training.  Training is not fun. (But it’s worth it in the long run.) My sons need to grow up to be self-reliant, […]

Filed Under: family, Keepin' It real, parenting, The Boys In General

Someone always has to go and be stupid. Best to be prepared for it.

September 14, 2011 20 Comments

I am a camper. I am a planner. I am organized. I am also mom to 4 boys, and they do stupid things… like throw rocks and crack their little skulls open while playing in creeks. This was on our camping trip 2 years ago.  (That was a bumpy trip.)  I had not planned to spend […]

Filed Under: camping, Keepin' It real, Let me help you, medical, organization, Tip of the Day, Tips & Tricks, travel, vacations

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