Disclosure: I received promotional consideration for this post. All opinions expressed are solely my own. I love fall. The weather is cooling off and running is becoming easier. Virginia puts up a gorgeous display of leaves. Soup returns to our menu and dark beers re-appear on the grocery shelves. Every weekend there are options for…
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Going back to school with CVS Minute Clinic
Disclosure: I have received promotional consideration from MinuteClinic and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. All opinions are my own. Have you noticed how late Labor Day is this year? It’s the latest possible date it can be in September. Know what that means around here? It means my kids get an extra week of summer….
MUMZY: Crowdfunding for Moms
Have you ever laid awake at night, nursing a small baby or listening for your child’s next cough, and come up with the best.idea.ever? Or maybe an awesome idea came to you as you were running (and enjoying your few moments of peace and quiet.) We all know that sleep-deprived moms are some of the…
White House Easter Egg Roll
Sometimes I get really lucky and get some pretty cool stuff as a result of social media. Once, my kids got to be in a filming for a commercial for Wild Kratts, thanks to someone at PBS reading my blog. Yesterday? We got to go to the White House Easter Egg Roll thanks to a…
It’s the little things…
I saw a post on Miss Zippy this week about what makes you happy. I love the list of small things, because of course there are plenty of good big things in my life, but it’s the small stuff that can make or break any individual day. So, here’s a list of the little things…
Enjoying a break
The camp cancellation and power outages threw a bit of a kink into my plans for this week. OK, they basically threw out my plans for this week. Because I was supposed to go to camp and Beer Geek needed to work, Shoo was slated to fly to Wisconsin with his grandma. When camp got…
God is laughing…
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” Yesterday’s plan – 8 miles, several hours of work, soccer, martial arts, cub scouts. This weekend – guests, site seeing, running. What really happened: One mile into my 8 mile run, I got a call from the school…
Walkin’ to Grandma’s
Every year I set movement goals for myself. I try to run more miles than the previous year or try more cross training or (this year) actually ride enough miles on my bike to count them LOL. But, I’ve never tried to get my kids to set goals with me. Shoo is incredibly active. Yesterday…
Wild Kratts!
This past weekend, while I was running my heart out at the Army 10 Miler, the boys (and my mom and Beer Geek) were out at the Reston Zoo. They’d been invited by PBS to participate in the taping of the promo materials for the new “Wild Kratts” show that will begin airing in January….