Tonight is the Friends reunion for a tribute to the show’s director James Burrows. My daughter and I recently binged watched the Thanksgiving episodes marathon. I can’t bring myself to delete those episodes from my DVR. It’s funny when I watched the original shows I was in love with Chandler and so annoyed by Joey. Re-watching the [Read more…]
Pajama Program Charity
Please consider this charity to add to your gift exchanges and parties this holiday season. Read below to find out how my daughter and I got involved with the Pajama Program. Every Christmas my daughter and I host a mother-daughter ornament exchange. We host it the evening following finals. We began this tradition in my daughter’s [Read more…]
DIY Canvas Paint Party
Hi everyone- How is this for a Throwback Thursday! This project was before blogs and diy sites were as common as pop up ads! The fun part of this is it’s still a great project for you, your kids or a great birthday activity! Canvas and paint: a classic pairing! In this image I suggest [Read more…]
STOP TEXTING IN YOUR CAR!
I’m stepping up on my soapbox. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get drivers to stop texting while driving on the road, highway, or while stopped at a traffic light or sign. For some reason, drivers don’t count “stopped at the light” as driving. I don’t honk if I see drivers texting because I don’t want to further distract or startle the driver, [Read more…]
Easy Care Package Idea
My daughter is in college and I am constantly thinking about care packages (I haven’t actually gotten my act together to send a care package)! And, when I’m not thinking about them she is good about texting me reminders or notices that her roommates’ moms are sending care packages. But this was such an easy care [Read more…]
College Care Package Party for Moms
When my baby girl left for her first year of college several of the moms got together on a Sunday afternoon to prepare care packages for our girls. Sniff. Sniff. Breathe. The hostess served wine for us moms. Some of us may have had a second glass. Here are the details: Each mom was asked to bring enough of [Read more…]
when your child leaves for college: pep talk for parents
grab a tissue…. This post is dedicated to all the parents of incoming college freshmen. The days leading up to departure are filled with excitement, fear, sadness, plans and a sense of new-ness that brings back the first day of kindergarten! New bedding, new backpacks, lamps, towels, toiletries, laundry bags… that list goes on and [Read more…]
Rape Aggression Defense national self defense program
One of the most important class I have taken since graduate school was a self defense class I took with my daughter before she left for college. My decision to find a program was validated with this statistic we learned in the first hour of this 2 day class: The most likely time in a woman’s life to be [Read more…]
Hell hath no fury than an accounting major who finds a duplicate credit card charge.
This past spring, I shared my daughter’s study abroad experience to Florence, Italy. She was home for a week before heading to Omaha for a summer internship. She is an accounting major because as she points out, “Numbers don’t lie, mom.” Hours before my daughter was to catch a flight back to Omaha, I found her [Read more…]
Daughter Leaves for Study Abroad
Today we dropped our daughter off at the airport. In a matter of hours she will be en route to Florence Italy where she will study abroad over the next 112 days. But, who is counting? We are so excited for her adventure. Really. We supported her goal to study abroad, because it was [Read more…]
Is my daughter on the Do Not Fly List?
Our daughter is a freshman at a mid-west university. She came home for her spring break because she knows we miss her so much we will pay for new shoes, spring clothes, hair cut (and color correction from an impulse hair color box purchase) , eye appointment, meals and Target. But who knew an 87 [Read more…]
I am not ready but my daughter is…
Reposted after my WordPress migration: My daughter drove to school this morning, taking her last final for the semester. She is a junior in high school. She is a great girl who happens to have what I would have envied when I was in high school (brains, beauty, an athlete and a strong inner confidence). She is also in [Read more…]
Daughter Prepares for High School Graduation
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Reposting one of my favorites. As we head into a new school year, he is what I was feeling just a few short years ago. My daughter is now a junior in college! Yikes! It’s happening. And, I’m getting cold feet! My daughter is almost, officially a senior in high school. I just can’t [Read more…]
