Looking Good (for a mom)

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I didn’t want to leave my readers hanging! This is a relatively small blog, and I appreciate all of the readers who have engaged in the past few weeks, leaving comments, subscribing to my email list, becoming facebook fans, and buying products for which I am an affiliate. So THANK YOU for your help!.. Read More

As you can well imagine, I’ve been shocked and dismayed by the horrific devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti.  Many of my blogger friends have started fundraising drives and making donations to various charities. In the past, my family and I have always contributed something to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund when there has been a major natural disaster.  However, I just got some news today. I’m not allowed to name the company where I work in my blog, but we were told that our company will be matching, dollar for dollar, all donations made to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to help with Haiti relief efforts... Read More

As you know from my post Of Martha, Blogging, and NYC, I traveled up to New York City earlier this week to be in the studio audience for the taping of The Martha Stewart Show along with a number of other bloggers (many of them from right here in the Philly area). The show’s theme was blogging, and we were all supposed to be blogging live from the audience.  I actually decided against bringing my laptop, as I’m simply too verbose to write the kind of post I’d like to write from my iPhone in just an hour (along with many mandatory clapping breaks), so I hope you don’t mind that it’s taken me a day to regroup and get this post up. I really want to share my experiences going to New York, seeing Martha live, and spending a day away from my home and normal routine.  Of course, I’ll share tidbits of how I tried to stay healthy along the way! (And even for me, this post is pretty lengthy…epic even!).. Read More

It’s an exciting day for me! I’m on my way to New York City for my first blogging-related trip. On Thursday, Martha Stewart is having a show that’s all about blogging, and I’m one of the many bloggers who was approved to blog right from the audience during the taping of the show!.. Read More