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Toys For Tots – Giving Back This Holiday Season

December 15, 2010

I’ve always been blessed. Sure, I gripe and complain about life and challenges and roadblocks that I run into, but all in all, we’re pretty okay. We’ve had the lean Christmas or two, but always had enough people in our lives to pick up the slack and make sure that the kids had a good [...]

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Virtual Holiday Extravaganza for Toys for Tots – Giveaway – Closed

December 13, 2010

A few weeks ago, I was invited by some of my favorite Philly bloggers to join them in a fabulous fundraiser for Toys for Tots. Unfortunately, due to timing and logistics, I wasn’t able to join them at the Holiday Extravaganza on December 9th, but instead I, along with several other fabulous bloggers, was given [...]

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Marmaduke on DVD and Fill The Backpack Giveaway #2

September 15, 2010

One of my favorite memories as a child was reading the comic strips in the Sunday paper with my grandfather, grandmother, dad or whoever else I could sucker into getting into a chair for some snuggling and giggling. Marmaduke was always a hit. Every week, that big, lumbering Great Dane would find himself in another [...]

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Classwish.org and Fill The Backpack Giveaway #1- CLOSED

September 1, 2010

Remember how I told you I was part of a really fun project that could make two of my readers a big winner? Well, it’s time for one of you to get your chance! One of our partners in the Fill The Backpack program is Classwish.org – a wonderful non-profit, dedicated to helping teachers fill [...]

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Welcome to Fill The Backpack

August 16, 2010

If you haven’t been avoiding the calendar like the plague, I’m sure you’re well aware that Back to School is just around the corner or might even have hit you like a ton of bricks already. While we still have a few weeks of summer left around here, back to school prep is in full [...]

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The Sweetest Things

July 29, 2010

You know those moments when your kids say things that just rip your heartstrings from your chest and turn you into a puddle of mush? Yeah…we had that over here a couple of days ago. On Monday, thanks to the insistence of an amazing friend, I escaped the house with the kids for the day. [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Beach Fun

July 28, 2010

My kids really do get along on occasion…

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My Obligatory Pre Blogher Post

July 27, 2010

I admit it, I’m jumping on the bandwagon here. It seems everyone is posting their best advice for dealing with the overwhelming days and jam-packed nights of Blogher ’10 and I would throw a little something together, too. Last year was my first Blogher experience and it was my first ever blogging conference. While it [...]

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Tiny Prints Business Card Review

July 23, 2010

It’s almost that time again! In less than two weeks, I will be living it up among the best and brightest bloggers in the land at Blogher ’10 in NYC. I’ve got most of my essentials ready to go – clothes (free of child-induced stains), laptop bag semi-packed, camera at the ready and now, thanks [...]

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Unappreciated

July 11, 2010

This is a total whine post, so if you don’t want to hear me complain, look up there in the right corner of the screen and click the “X.” You’ve been warned. Self-pity ahead. If you know me, you know that last September, our family had a massive curveball thrown at us when my stepson [...]

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