Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2008
It all started simply enough when a cute little pink pony arrived by mail last year sometime soon after my daughter’s birthday. It was a present from her cousin Jonah whom she adores. His mom explained to me that it was a Webkinz, which meant it came with a web site where you put in [...]
Posted in Laura P. Thomas, Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2008
Laura P. Thomas is the wife of a former rocker and mother of one 5-year-old girl that’s already waaay too interested in The Jonas Brothers. (the apple didn’t fall far) She works in the Global Online team at Dell, evangelizes virtual worlds, and twitters too much as LPT.
I was talking to my mother the other [...]
Posted in Kymberli Mulford, Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2008
Kymberli Mulford is the proud mom of a grade-schooler and high-schooler in the Chicago suburbs, and the proud grandmother of her now-grown stepson’s four children. When she’s not shuttling her sons from one activity to another, she works in the world of educational technology – as a district administrator, a learning facilitator, a consultant, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2008
I am blessed to have someone very special in my life point out some very simple wisdom today. But first, let me begin by apologizing for lack of writing. I was getting some monkeys off my back. The first: Divorce was final last Friday, 11 July.
Now what am I going to do?" she wailed. "How [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 10th, 2008
“Beckett’s Dad” (aka Christian) still proudly calls himself a “new papa” even as Beckett nears his 2nd birthday this coming September. Christian lives in Ft. Worth, TX with Beckett, his middle school principal wife Karla, and 2 furry dogs (Tucker and Flaco). Beyond being a daddy blogger, Christian’s “think:lab” blog explores the future of [...]
Posted in Kristen Keller, Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
Kristen Keller lives in New Jersey with her two young boys, husband and two dogs. In an effort to obtain the perfect work-life balance, Kristen works part-time out of her home office as an independent public relations consultant and spends the rest of her time striving to give her children the same wonderful childhood experience [...]
Posted in Rachael Cahours Acklin, Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2008
I was planning on publishing this post on Thursday, because my number-of-weeks-pregnant flips over one higher each Thursday, but life got a bit in my way. As in, being pregnant makes me tired and lazy , and then there were large storms and tornado watches and warnings, and we ended up staying with my grandparents [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2008
I love it when I’m reminded just how powerful a group of women can be…
My monthly neighborhood bunko group met this evening, at my house, and though we were two regular members short tonight, it was an absolute BLAST!
Oh, sure, there was food, alcohol, music and cold, hard cash. But, more than that, there was [...]
Posted in Kristen Keller, Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2008
We had a horrible storm here last night with some of the scariest thunder I’ve heard in a while. I remember when I was young, every time there was a bad storm, my mom would tell me the thunder was the angels bowling and one had just gotten a strike.
Well, unfortunately, a little over two [...]
Posted in Kate Olson, Uncategorized on May 29th, 2008
Well, the PR people have found This Mommy Gig - that was fast! As a group, the moms here have given this a lot of thought and have decided on this as our policy for doing reviews and product contests when approached by companies and their PR firms (and we’re sharing with you in the [...]
