BrainFoggles

Recipes That Keep Kids Interested [Guest Post]

January 16, 2012 By expandsm 1 Comment

Shana blogs over at shanamama.com and posts some of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. If you read this excerpt from her About Me section you’ll see why we love her too: The basics: I am a 29- year- old wife to my wonderful husband (aka the hubs) and mother to my three amazing children: [...]

Filed Under: Food, Fun, Guest, Parenting

Funny Video To Share

April 15, 2011 By Connie 5 Comments

My daughter Alicia shared this funny video on her Facebook wall. I watched it a few times and laughed each time. Just think of those old commercials selling a product to make your life better because you’re doing something wrong. Here’s a montage of the doing wrong part of the commercials: Just a little [...]

Filed Under: Fun, To TV or Not TV

Family Visit To Kansas

January 4, 2011 By Connie 1 Comment

We took a family vacation to Kansas over the holidays to visit my daughter, Alicia and my son-in-law, Scott. They bought a house about 2 months ago and wanted to spend their first Christmas there. Who could blame them? So my husband, Shawn, daughter, Sammi, my mother, Natalie and I decided to be with them [...]

Filed Under: Food, Fun, Holidays, My Life & Times, My Zany Family, travel

Sammi Is Twelve

December 20, 2010 By Connie 5 Comments

Happy Birthday to my daughter Sammi who turned 12 on Friday! We had a small party at home Saturday night with family because she was sick with sinusitis since Thursday. Poor thing was in bed all day Thursday – Sunday. She said that she was thrilled to be 12 but hoped that she’d wouldn’t be [...]

Filed Under: Food, Fun, My Zany Family

Halloween Weekend -Get Ready!

October 29, 2010 By Connie 1 Comment

With Halloween falling on a Sunday this year, many people are celebrating Halloween weekend, and it’s time to get ready! For our family, although we’ve procrastinated on a few things one thing we were sure to do was to buy Sammi’s Halloween costume early. She wanted to be the Mad Hatter this year so we [...]

Filed Under: Discounts, Fun, Holidays

Save on Family Membership to the Pier Aquarium

September 21, 2010 By Connie 3 Comments

Save money on a family membership to the Pier Aquarium -Â that’s the Aquarium in St. Pete, Florida. The membership is only $35. That’s a 30% discount! You’ll get free admission for one year, a subscription to their newsletter, invitations to special events and openings and discounts on summer camps and birthday parties, (Edited to [...]

Filed Under: Discounts, events, Florida, Fun

Family Event Discounts

September 17, 2010 By Connie Leave a Comment

Find family event discounts of 50% – 90% all in one place at Savvy Savings and Scholarships. Tampa was recently added to the list of cities across the US with fantastic savings to family friendly attractions and events. The discounts last for one full week unlike other money saving sites you may know about. And [...]

Filed Under: Discounts, events, Florida, Fun, Parenting

Discover For Yourself Six Flags Parks Ticket Giveaway

September 7, 2010 By Connie

Discover for yourself what Discover Card and Six Flags parks have in store for you and enter for a chance to win tickets to any Six Flags U.S. theme park. What would you do with a million dollars? After receiving treatments from over 300 filmmakers, four short-films have made it to the final round of [...]

Filed Under: Fun, Giveaways, travel

Kissimmee Here I Come – Again!

August 16, 2010 By Connie Leave a Comment

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Kissimmee Tourism. All opinions are 100% mine. As many of you know, my family and I visit Kissimmee, Florida frequently. We spend most of our time at Disney World, but also trek about to visit other theme parks, eat at fun and delicious restaurants [...]

Filed Under: Florida, Fun, travel

Summer Boredom Busters

June 28, 2010 By Connie 2 Comments

I found these Summer Boredom Busters to share with you. You may be in the same boat as me… it’s summer and school is out.Â Soon I’ll be hearing those dreaded words, “I’m bored!”Â There’s so much to do outdoors. So many books to read, friends to hang out with even online and other types [...]

Filed Under: Crafts, Fun, My Zany Family

Glue Dots To The Rescue Of A Non-Crafty Mom

June 23, 2010 By Connie 3 Comments

I used to be crafty, really. I did all types of needlework, created crafts after reading about them or being taught them one time, and even came up my own craft ideas. I enjoyed creating things with my children and even sold some of the items I made. I’ve lost it though. I’m not sure [...]

Filed Under: Crafts, Fun, My Life & Times, My Zany Family