Archive for June, 2014
Are Our Kids, Reading and Writing? By: Lori Loesch
June 26th, 2014
Lately, I've been made aware of a disturbing trend. Young people do not read. Young people do not write. My 21 year old chastised me for a post I had posted on FaceBook. It was funny, I had fun writing it, and it helped me rid myself of something. I ...
Resignation and Regurgitation by Dana Spincola
June 26th, 2014
On April 30, I resigned. I resigned from a job I knew. I knew how to be a principal…share appropriate discipline with students who made poor choices, talk with parents who worried about their children’s educational needs and talk with children about what they were reading, learning and hoping. I ...
FEEL GOODS FOR MOM by Robin Gorman Newman
June 20th, 2014
SKINUE, created by Penelope Shihab, CEO/Founder of Columbia Biotech, LLC, is described as an innovative method of skincare that has demonstrated effective results. Camel's milk is one of the key, unique ingredients that soften the skin, keeping it supple, smooth and feeling rejuvenated. Camel's milk is an emerging ingredient in Australian ...
LATE BLOOMIN’ MOM: Dana M. Spincola, Our Newest Blogger, Squashes the Notion of Perfection
June 19th, 2014
I hated my twenties. It was a decade of lost dreams, loosing a father and what I believed to be loosing my mind. My thirties was a turn around of miraculous beginnings with finding myself, getting married, and becoming pregnant; and today, as I begin a new decade, I can ...
Happy Summer Days By: Lori Loesch
June 19th, 2014
School's Out For Summer, and I Couldn't Feel More Contented! I have been feeling happy and healthy. There are probably a bunch of reasons why. One; Changing my mindset about how my vision has changed. Acceptance, and the desire to rise above it. Two; Chiropractor. I have been seeing ...
Swim, Bike, Run! by Margaret Hart
June 15th, 2014
My son competed in his very first Kids Triathlon today and I am so proud of him! He showed such courage and determination in trying something so challenging. The final numbers have not yet been posted, but he finished among the top 18 participants, from a total of 82 kids ...
Motherhood Later Giveaway: Mio Shrink to Fit Cellulite Smoother
June 15th, 2014
To enter to win, sign up (in the box at the top of this page) for our Baby Bloomer newsletter, if you don’t currently receive it. Two lucky subscribers will be chosen and notified via email. Transform ‘orange peel’ into fabulously fit skin for smoother, firmer hips, thighs and arms by ...
That’s Because He is a Guy by Sharon O’Donnell
June 14th, 2014
On June 22nd, I am having my middle son's girlfriend's family over for a cook-out. Even though they are rising juniors in college and have dated since they were sophomores in high school, this will be the first time we have all gotten together. Over the past few years, things ...
Kids Making Like-Minded Friends by Robin Gorman Newman
June 13th, 2014
It's not always easy making friends who are "keepers," so to speak. I've learned over the years that not everyone is meant to be in our lives forever...sometimes they come in 'n out so they and/or we can learn from the relationship. I've always been somewhat sensitive and at times have ...
Guest Blog: Motherhood in Good Time by Susanne Paola Antonetta, author, Make Me a Mother
June 11th, 2014
When my son Jin was fourteen, and at the age where the meanest thing he could think of to say occasionally popped out of him--like a stone busting out of a tumultuous dam-- he once or twice said to me, “You are too old. You’re too old to understand ...
