Adventures in Parenting

The winners of the High School Musical Ice Show tickets are LW, SMS and Heidi Gallegos!
I know you’ll enjoy the show, and maybe I’ll even see you there.
Thank you all for participating.
(Winners were chosen at random by random.org)

I am so excited! Tomorrow my daughter will be coming home from college for 3 weeks of Christmas vacation!
Christmas holidays gives many natural opportunities to spend time together with our children. My younger daughter and I went Christmas shopping for her friends today. We wrapped Christmas presents together with Christmas music in the background. Decorating [...]

Any of you planning to be in So Cal for the Christmas holidays?
If you are, I’ve got a present for you!
High School Musical On Ice will be here at the Staples Center, Honda Center, and the Long Beach Arena, and I have 3 sets of 4 tickets* to give away, valued at $100.
Since the location [...]

5 Minutes for Mom is one of my favorite sites. Janice and Susan (identical twins, isn’t that cute?), founders of the site, offer a place for moms to network. They share their lives with us and even offers some fun contests along the way.
I was interviewed for their blog directory. You can read that interview [...]

CONGRATULATIONS to Elizabeth M., the winner of a cool Living The Dream t-shirt!
Thank you to all of you for participating! And thank you to LTDChix for sponsoring the giveaway. If you don’t already have one of these great shirts from LTDChix, they are definitely worth the money.
(The winner was chosen by randomizer.)

Did you ever “dream” life of being a mom would be like this?
Nina Frye and Cindi Schmitzer are two moms who are Living The Dream!
And they designed these cute shirts to show what that dream life is REALLY like - buried in laundry, managing the chaos of grocery shopping [...]

I recorded 6 toothpick puzzles, just for fun. These puzzles are great for stimulating your mind and practice thinking out of the box.
Try them out with your children. Don’t forward too quickly to the solution.
Here is the first puzzle. Click here to see the other 5 puzzles. Forward it to your friends and see if [...]

Thank you to all of you who participated in my first contest giveaway!
The winner has been chosen randomly.
Congratulations LINDA F for winning the Frownies and AminoGenesis skin products!
All the participants asked some great questions about raising good kids. I will be addressing those issues in upcoming posts and invite you all  to participate in the [...]

To celebrate my new theme, I am doing my first Giveaway. I am so excited!
One of the most important aspect of being a good parent in raising good kids is to keep ourselves in good spirits.
For this contest, AminoGenesis and Frownies are providing products that help us moms rejuvenate our skin. Looking and feeling better [...]

I’m really bad at it, but it’s great exercise and it gets me sweating.
I’m talking about Dance Dance Revolution. We play the Mario version on our Game Cube.
But Becki said it right on that the music of these types of games is not very uplifting. The Mario version is not bad, but the Guitar Hero [...]

“I feel left out when you guys talk. I don’t know what you are talking about.”
As the third and youngest child, my daughter is 6 years behind our second child and 7 1/2 years behind her older brother. At the dinner table, we would be talking about getting ready for college when she is [...]

I was presented with the honor of this award by Dance of Motherhood! What a great feeling to know that I made someone’s day!

The rules for the “You Make My Day” award are to re-present it to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Let [...]

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We are exactly like that!
When we look at this, we realize how ridiculous us moms can be! It’s a wonder our kids listen to us at all! We have to laugh at ourselves more often. It puts everything into perspective.

Fifth graders were talking in my class today:
Student A: I’m going to do my state report on New York. I went there last summer.
Student B: I’m going to do my state report on New Mexico. I’ve never been there, but it seems like a good state.
Student C: I’m going to do my state report on [...]

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