My good friend Melodee sent me the funniest letter last year. I saved it all year long, just so that I could copy it - it was that good. And then, when I went to look for it last week, I couldn't find it. I emailed her in a panic [...]
My good friend Melodee sent me the funniest letter last year. I saved it all year long, just so that I could copy it - it was that good. And then, when I went to look for it last week, I couldn't find it. I emailed her in a panic [...]
One of my favorite things about personal blogging is the reminder to capture the little moments.
Between unpacking eleventy billion boxes, making BlissDom calls and returning some of the oh-I’ll-never-get-through-it-all email backup; I stopped and watched him playing happily on the kitchen floor.
“Do you want [...]
Mandy's also using Google to get a handle on Thanksgiving planning:
I'm not lucky enough to have gotten a Google Wave invite yet, but I did use a Google service to organize our holiday. I created a potluck signup sheet through Google Docs with the menu items detailed and emailed' [...]
Okay, once again someone sent me an email asking when they should make their child go without a blankie. Does anyone know? My kids never had a binkie, blankie or a favorite stuffed doll. Don’t get me wrong I did try, believe it or not I thought I was doing [...]
Okay, once again someone sent me an email asking when they should make their child go without a blankie. Does anyone know? My kids never had a binkie, blankie or a favorite stuffed doll. Don’t get me wrong I did try, believe it or not I thought I was doing [...]

Austin woke me up at 5:06am because there were aliens in his room. Go away aliens. I then laid in bed for 20 minutes before deciding it was useless to even try to go back to sleep. So when my friend Misti emailed me at [...] It's 10:30 p.m. on a Thursday. My child is cozy in her bed, fast asleep. My husband is in the home office, working on family budgeting, writing some work emails, keeping an eye on SportsCenter. I am in the family den, sitting on the [...]
Last week I cemented my reputation as Crappy Crocker, the Domestic Not-ess of baking. It started with an email from a nice mom who (I thought) was going to bake Halloween cookies for my daughter's class. She wanted to know how she [...]

This category is full of everything from getting kids ready for school to picking out those summer fun activities. So it shouldn’t surprize you that when someone emailed and asked me:
IMG: Elizabeth Ferree
My son is 3 years old and refusing use his potty chair. Any recommendations?
My first [...]

This category is full of everything from getting kids ready for school to picking out those summer fun activities. So it shouldn’t surprize you that when someone emailed and asked me:
IMG: Elizabeth Ferree
My son is 3 years old and refusing use his potty chair. Any recommendations?
My first [...]