Tween Parenting Blog
I recently held a giveaway for a $25 gift certificate to McCormick and Schmick’s Restaurant. They are offering an unrestricted $5 movie ticket when you purchase an entree through September (or until supplies last). You can also enter their Reel To Reel contest to win a trip to the Sundance Film Festival. The winner is [...]
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Samantha is not into anything girly. It was pretty much torture for her to wear a dress to her sister’s wedding (she said that she’d sacrifice and wear it). So when we have a mother and daughter day, it’s not like we go shopping for clothes or get a manicure together. It usually is eating [...]
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My husband, Shawn is a sports fanatic. It’s sports on radio or TV all day long. He’s not really into computers but I’ve been catching him on my desktop playing games and looking at the Tampa Bucs info. He has a lot of friends who are into fantasy football so maybe learning how to use [...]
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This first week of school is over and it flew by. It felt like I blinked my eyes and it was done. Samantha is enjoying her time in fifth grade and really likes her teacher. That makes things easy. It’s actually very rare that she doesn’t like her teacher as she can get along fine [...]
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At the Affiliate Summit, I was presented with a gorgeous pearl necklace from MyJewelryBox.com by Trisha Fawver. I was so excited to receive one of my vices, jewelry! The necklace is stunning. And I was so grateful that Trisha was kind enough to give this to me. In fact, the box itself made me feel [...]
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As part of my winner’s package from Murray Newland’s Blog Competition, I won an illustration of myself from Mari Kurisato. I’m thrilled with the outcome of her portrait and glad that I had my fabulous photo from Alicia’s wedding to give to her to use. Mari Kurisato has a blog, Mari’s MetaMusings, and accepts commissions [...]
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*CONTEST ENDED. WINNER ANNOUNCED.* I was a bit concerned that reading a book about young people who have cancer would be depressing, but I was totally wrong. Perseverance by Carolyn Rubenstein inspired me and helped me to think differently about my life. Learning how people who were still in the process of believing that nothing [...]
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Before I left for the Affiliate Summit East, I wanted to have a website that would link to all of my blogs and provide a short biography of me. I decided to call it ConnieFoggles Online Business Card. I’m not a designer in any sense of the word so I needed someone who could create [...]
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Samantha has always been afraid of losing her baby teeth. But Thursday night she showed bravery when she took her tooth out on her own. Usually she would wait until her tooth would either fall out by some kind of accident or the dentist would have to take it out. Believe me, getting a dentist [...]
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Table Manners by Mia King is actually the second in a series about her characters Deidre McIntosh and Kevin Johnson. I was able to read and enjoy this book though without reading Good Things , but being such a fan on Mia King’s writing, I’ll be on the look out for it next. From Amazon.com: [...]
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I love shoes! But, when I look for women’s shoes I need to find ones that are comfy and are safe for me to wear. With rhuematoid arthritis that bother my ankles a lot, I need to consider my health. At the same time, I want to look young and sexy. There are plenty of [...]
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At Battery Park, Samantha and me in front of a statue of inventor John Ericsson. For more Wordless Wednesday participants, please visit the Wordless Wednesday website and the 5MinutesForMom site. Sorry about the photo, this was when our camera wasn’t working.
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