Mark Your Calendars for a Mom/Daughter Hangout with Author Christine Fonseca!

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The moms at Working Moms Against Guilt are thrilled to announce our first-ever live online event! Saturday, June 1, we’ll be hosting a Google Hangout with Christine Fonseca, author of THE GIRL GUIDE: FINDING YOUR PLACE IN A MIXED-UP WORLD. We’re calling our event the WMAG Mother/Daughter Book Club—Girls’ Night In! Moms, this is a [...]

Music Is Magical – A Children’s Music Review

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I was given the opportunity to review Ellie Hirsch’s new CD, “Music is Magical, Children’s Songs with Ellie” and jumped at the chance. Her website said that her lyrics were witty and entertaining. I like witty. I like to be entertained. Bonus: kids like it too! My kids are fairly picky in their musical tastes. [...]

Tech Tidbits: Google keeps a family together

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I have seen a ton of apps for note tracking, calendars and family organization in general, but I haven’t been sold on downloading a separate app for any of them so far. I just can’t find a reason to walk away from Google. Many people only know Google for their search and maybe their free [...]

Tech Tidbits: What’s on your phone?

What's on your phone?

When the iPhone first came out and the hype was high, I adamantly stood strong that I would not own one of those phones.  And then came the need in my job to do testing of mobile apps that needed me to use an iPod or iPhone to test on.  Since they were going to cover [...]

Tasty Tuesday: The Lite-Hearted Donut

The Lite-Hearted Donut from Busken Bakery - Seriously yum.

This week’s Tasty Tuesday is just for our Cincinnati/Dayton-area readers. I’m going to tell you how you can get free donuts — and not just free, but lower-fat, lower-calorie donuts that taste just like Busken Bakery’s regular donuts. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Busken is introducing the Lite-Hearted Donut. It’s a heart-shaped glazed donut [...]

New Frames for the New Year (Giveaway) – CLOSED

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Every woman knows your hair makes a statement. And if you feel like changing up your looks, a visit to the salon for a new ‘do (and color, too!) is a must. But for us four-eyed folks, glasses can also create a whole new look. I’ve been a steady glasses-wearer for ages, and I enjoy [...]

Book Review and Giveaway: 21 Ways to Connect with Your Kids [Closed]

21 Ways to Connect with Your Kids

Title: 21 Ways to Connect with Your Kids Author: Kathi Lipp Amazon Price: $11.51 This book focuses it’s attention on real solutions that can be used to connect more with your kids. The author uses a blend between her spiritual beliefs and practical approaches to create real family time together. The book begins with some [...]

Unique Mother’s Day Gifts

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With Mother’s Day fast approaching, I had the opportunity to check out PersonalCreations.com for unique Mother’s Day gifts.  Every year, I usually just pick up the phone and call a florist to deliver flowers.  It was nice to see the personalized options available on the site. (** Full disclosure: PersonalCreations.com did supply me with a [...]

Droid Detox

Jeremiah gives me the smart-phone hookup at the Verizon store in Miami’s Aventura Mall. If you know me at all, you know I love my smart phone. Don’t care about cars, TVs or video games, but I take my smart phones very seriously. I got the first generation Droid for myself last Christmas, a life-changing [...]

So, how is that new Disney movie?

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! What are you planning to do when the turkey’s been eaten and the kids are getting cabin fever? If you’re thinking about taking them to the movies, let me recommend Disney’s “Tangled.” When I got an offer to see a free preview of this re-telling of the Rapunzel fairy tale, I was [...]