Last week, 14,000 women attended the sold-out Women’s Conference in Long Beach, California. This year’s conference theme – Be Who You Are. Feel It. Live It. Pass it on. – was shaped by First Lady Maria Shriver. It looks like it was an amazing conference, and I wish I could have been there, but I [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2008
Coming up in November…
I’m taking a few days off this week to prepare my dissertation defense. To hold you over, here are some posts you can look forward to in November: TWO NEW SERIES: Giving Thanks and No Spend Month Top 10 Garage Sale Finds My Best Investment This Year 10 Ways to Avoid Overspending – and How [...]
Babywearing
I believe the best thing I’ve done for our darling daughter (DD) is babywearing. I try to wear her at least a few hours each day. I wear her in the fabulous Moby wrap. Our doula brought us the Moby a few days after DD was born. At first, I was intimidated by all the [...]
Sunday’s Super Simple Solution: Jewelry
This is one of the best home organization solutions I’ve “invented.” For years I searched for the ultimate jewelry box. I looked at expensive wood jewelry boxes and full size armoire style jewelry boxes. Nothing I found met all my needs. The problem was finding a place to store my jewelry that didn’t take up [...]
Friday’s Fun Find: Honest Baby
This Friday’s Fun Find is HonestBaby.com and came from Berrie Sweet Picks (you can check out an interview with the owner on her blog). This is a website that celebrates imperfect parenting. It’s refreshing to know that we’re all just doing the best we can. The best part of the site are the t-shirts with [...]
Chase Freedom
My Chase Freedom credit card arrived in the mail today. For the past five years, I have earned frequent flier miles with the United Chase Visa card. Now that we have a baby, we aren’t going to be doing as much flying for awhile. Plus, the United Chase Visa had a $65 annual fee. The [...]
Time Management Strategy That Works
Today I’m looking forward to a walk with my sister. She recently informed me that she’s making more time for the important things in her life. Her message reminded me of my favorite part of Stephen Covey’s book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – his demonstration of time management. Covey compares our most important [...]
U.S. Health Care Policy: Keep the Doctor Away
The presidential election is two weeks away, and there are so many issues on the table. To name a few, the economic crisis, the war, health care, social security, medicare, clean energy, education, and unemployment. Many of these issues are interrelated – it’s impossible to talk about one without the others. There is one issue [...]
Sunday’s Super Simple Solution: Signature Gifts
Last week’s Simple Solution was Remembering Birthdays. Once you’ve remembered them, then you have to find a gift. Well, this week I’m taking the effort out of gift-giving. Each year, I pick an item that I believe everyone will love (well, mostly my girlfriends). I stock up and everyone gets the same thing. This year, [...]
Friday’s Fun Find: Flip Clips
We’re all going to be looking for holiday gifts soon. Here’s a new gift idea. I haven’t actually tried this one, but I think it would make a good gift for Grandparents when our daughter takes her first step. Or, perhaps we’ll videotape her eating her first solid foods…the possibilities are endless. Check this out [...]
