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 [...]

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?

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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 [...]

Ringling Brothers Circus Moms

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Sara and I got the opportunity to attend a Mommy Blogger event at the Ringling Brothers circus last night. (Thank you to Feld Entertainment and US Bank Arena for the great time!) They opened the doors early for some local mommy bloggers to get a chance to talk to moms that can truly say their [...]

Healthy Motivation on Tap

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A healthier lifestyle. We all know we should have one (with the exception of you super-duper health nuts, a la Chris Traeger, Rob Lowe’s character on Parks and Recreation — you’re aces). But with all our working, parenting and whatnot, finding the time to actually do healthy things can be a challenge. There’s got to [...]

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 [...]

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (Next Week in Cincinnati)

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After a full week of caring for sick family members (and myself), I am so ready to have some actual family fun. Enough wiping noses, already! So I’m totally looking forward to seeing SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES in Cincinnati next week, thanks to some free tickets from the folks at U.S. Bank Arena where it’s showing. My [...]

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

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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 [...]

Too Many Toys

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My house is overflowing with toys. I must have cursed myself back in my pre-kids days, because I was one of those people who would say “Tsk, tsk, kids have too many toys these days. When I’M a mom, my kids will only have a FEW toys. That’s all they need.” Ha! Actually, my former [...]

Shortcuts to Healthy Eating, Family-Style

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Since I decided to pursue a whole foods, plant-based diet toward the end of last year, I’ve hit quite a few roadblocks in my healthy eating journey: Hubs considers most vegan dishes to be inedible (with some exceptions). Kids are picky as hell and whine about anything that’s not fast food or processed. (And sometimes, [...]