Monday Mingle is hosted by Eighty MPH Mom. If you’d like to participate, simply create a short vlog in which you answer the questions and then hit up the linky. Don’t forget to grab the badge and leave some comment love for your fellow participants. Afterall, isn’t that what mingling is all about? This week’s questions were submitted by [...]
Tags: About Me, Fun Stuff, Monday Mingle, Vlog
I’m sitting here on a Sunday night watching One Nation Overweight on CNBC* and all I can do is cringe. According to statistics quoted on the show, nearly two~thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. Yikes! My entire family on my father’s side is overweight/obese and so are a few people on my mother’s [...]
Tags: Exercise, Food and Exercise Journal, Getting Fit, Healthy Choices, Losing Weight, Mamavation Monday, Shrinking My Butt
A little over a year ago a friend of mine from high school contacted me and, after catching up, he said he was surprised to find me living such “a suburban lifestyle.” When I asked him to explain, he said he always thought that I’d be living in the middle of a jungle somewhere reporting [...]
Tags: About Me, Blogging, Coffee Talk, Focus, Goals
I’m writing this post on Friday night because I’m not sure what time I’d be able to get to it tomorrow ~ Miss 16 is going to take the SATs. And being the overprotective supportive mother that I am, I’ll be sitting in th parking lot until she’s finished. Anyway, I said all of that [...]
Tags: Beverages, Coffee, Fun Stuff, Iced Tea, Memes, Small Talk Six, Soda, Summer Drinks
For more Wordless Wednesday, check out 5 Minutes for Mom…
Tags: Birds, Empty Nest, Fun Stuff, Memes, Nature, Nest, Photography, Wordless Wednesday
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty~Year Friendship is an intimate look at the friendships of eleven women over a forty~year period. Interspersed with studies that highlight the importance of the development and maintenance of close relationships in the health and well~being of women, The Girls from Ames is part sociology [...]

Tags: Ames, Biography, Book Review, Female Friendship, Friendship, Gotham Books, Iowa, Jeffrey Zaslow, Women
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