Weekly Links from my Reader

Hi and welcome to week seven of sharing with y'all my favorites blog posts directly from my Google reader.  Hope you enjoyed the past few posts and find this seventh week as interesting as I did! I know I enjoyed reading the posts and then compiling them into groups for your enjoyment.

If you have any blogs that you suggest to include in my reader please leave a comment. If you stop by here on a regular basis, I would suggest you follow me and add me to your reader. I would like to know that the hard work is paying off. Have a wonderful week!

Life, Family and Soul
Summer Family Tech Activities     (life your way blog)
What do Kids Really Need?         (Simple Mom)
Keeping your cool when your kids lose theirs     (Not just cute)

Health Tips
Finally, the Truth about Soy       (Zen Habits)
Two peds goes undercover at your local pharmacy     (Two Peds in a Pod) 


I didn't feel very inspired this past week.  This blog posts caught my eye and made me think.  Thanks to the authors for making my week a little less dull.

always making my life interesting!

Weekend Life - Sunday Trail Walks

Black-Water Creek Trail

Finally, the weather is mild enough to start early morning outings with Carr on the weekends.  We are very fortunate to live nearby the Black Water Creek Trail and I plan to take full advantage of this.  Our morning started early, it was a bit overcast by the days forecast did not call for rain so I didn't worry.  Ah, little did I know!
There are many entrances to the trail, I chose this one because it was unknown.  I am so glad I did!  It is exceptionally beautiful and very safe for walks with a little one.

As soon as we got there it started raining, first very lightly then it really got heavy but we were there already.  My fondest memories as a child involved rain, puddles and nature.  So I decided to proceed and I am so glad I did.  Carr had a great time.

 We walked for about an hour, stopping and looking at leaves, sticks and insects.  He loves nature and I try to encourage it as much as I can.

Carr is so funny, everyone he came across he would greet and try to make conversation.  He is the most social child I have ever met.

 By now he is soaked through and tired of jumping on every puddle that he came across.  We headed back, tired, hungry and wet.

What did you do over the weekend?   How do you encourage love for nature with your child?

Weekly Links from my Reader

Hi and welcome to week six of sharing with y'all my favorites blog posts directly from my Google reader.  Hope you enjoyed the past few posts and find this fourth week as useful as I did! I know I did, reading the posts and then compiling them into groups for your enjoyment.

If you have any blogs that you suggest to include in my reader please leave a comment. If you stop by here on a regular basis, I would suggest you follow me and add me to your reader. I would like to know that the hard work is paying off. Have a wonderful week!

Blogging Tips and Advice
Want to work from home?  Find help.        (Simple Mom)
5 Home Business Ideas for Work at home wannabes     (Simple Mom)
Interested in a Blogging 101 Webinar?          (Simple Mom)
How I Add Structure to My New Day Job     (Peace and Projects)
Want to work from home?  Find your routine    (Simple Mom)

Life, Family and Soul

How to Set and Achieve Your Goals       (Life...your way and Zen Family Habits)
Four E-magazines You should make time to Read.    (Modern parents Messy Kids) 
25 Simply beautiful ways to Show Someone you care      (Peace and Projects)
Honoring the Man They call Daddy: Gifts that show love and respect    (Life...your way)
The way of Beauty      (Like Mother, Like Daughter)
7 Simple Tips To Deal With Negative People       (Zen Habits)

DIY Projects that I saved to favorites

Guest Project: How to make custom water bottle labels           (Tatertots and Jello)

Organization
Wrapping up Personal Yearbooks           (Becky's Blog)
Tips to Travel Overseas with Babies and Kids            (Small Notebook)
 

A Week of Links from My Reader

(I am sooo sorry for taking some days off!  My little monster and I have been dealing with serious allergy problem.)
Hi and welcome to the fourth week of sharing with y'all my favorites blog posts directly from my Google reader.  Hope you enjoyed the past few posts and find this fourth week as useful as I did! I know I did, reading the posts and then compiling them into groups for your enjoyment.  I added something new!  There are two blog posts that have stars besides them.  They are my favorite posts of the week!  I also posted them on my facebook page this week!

If you have any blogs that you suggest to include in my reader please leave a comment. If you stop by here on a regular basis, I would suggest you follow me and add me to your reader. I would like to know that the hard work is paying off. Have a wonderful week!

Organization
Top 6 clutter excuses and How to Banish them forever     (Organizing your way: Laura "I'm an organizing Junkie)

DIY Projects that I saved to favorites
Big Announcement      (Sherbet Blossom)
BOTB 05-01-11     (Centsational Girl)
Stylin    (Gingercake)
DIY Veggie Garden Sensory Box    (Modern Parents Messy Kids)


Recipes
Spring Minestrone Soup Recipe      (Simply Recipes)
Salsa - Quick and Easy       (Your homebased Mom)
Thick, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies     (Barbara Bakes)
Web Deliciousness: Cinco de Mayo             (The Pioneer Women Cooks)


Life, Family and Soul 
Announcing MPMK Learning language resource guide       (Modern Parents Messy Kids)
Will We Ever See Eye to Eye    (Simple Mom) 
Chatty       (Like Mother, Like daughter) 
The weekend    (Whatever)  
** 5 things I've learned about being a mom  (please read the whole series - it's great!)     (No biggie)
10 steps to Courageous Hospitality   (Simple Mom) 
Get Started: From overweight to healthy      ( Zen Habits)



Blogging posts and How to's
How I Write    (Simple Mom)
Want to work from home?  Make it a family business...not YOUR business.      (Simple Mom)
** Self Employment Tips for the Sole Bread winner   (Peace & Projects)
City Walks with kids       (Baby Mine)
Protect your online account information     (Organizing your way)



Eye Candy -Design 
Kitchen Crush         (Delight by Design)
Help Wanted    (Urban Grace Interiors)
English Peas, Buckwheat and a Strawberry Tart           (Cannelle et Vanille)
   

Not just another Mother's Day post

photo National Geographic

Relationships are hard, at least the ones that count.  It takes love, patience, and time to understand the people you love and time to live and maybe experience similar situations.  My story begins a very long time ago, 41 years to be exact.  My mom was a newly widow in a foreign country and about to have her baby.  Just the thought of this gives me shudders, just to imagine how lonely she felt.  From then on, it's been a ride to say the least.  My mom has been there for me always, even when I didn't want her to be.  She sacrificed herself so many times that it shames me to admit.  My mom would give her life for her children in a heart-beat.  

She is long winded, annoying, meddlesome, and out right incorrigible. We've had our rough patches but we have always loved each other above things.  There are some many things that I would love to tell her.  The main one is I AM SORRY.  I am sorry for being so pig-headed, for the sleepless nights waiting up for me to get home, for thinking I knew best and most of all for not being there when you needed me the most.  I wish that I could take back the tears and worries I gave you.  I was a tomboy that kept you busy in my early years, a snotty teenager and a very rebellious youth. You had your hands full and miraculously you survived my brother and I, always holding yourself graceful and soft spoken.

I want to THANK HER for teaching me to be selfless, for understanding the meaning of sacrifice and never expecting anything in return for a good deed.  She is the one that instilled in me my calling for service and my discipline and hard work.  She is the one that pushed me to reach for the stars and to never be complacent with any goals reached.  She is the one that expected nothing but the best from me.  I hope that I have made her proud.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM!

A week of links from my Reader

Hi and welcome to the fourth week of sharing with y'all my favorites blog posts directly from my Google reader.  Hope you enjoyed the past few posts and find this fourth week as useful as I did! I know I did, reading the posts and then compiling them into groups for your enjoyment.  I added something new!  There are two blog posts that have stars besides them.  They are my favorite posts of the week!  I also posted them on my facebook page this week! 

If you have any blogs that you suggest to include in my reader please leave a comment. If you stop by here on a regular basis, I would suggest you follow me and add me to your reader. I would like to know that the hard work is paying off. Have a wonderful week!

Organization
 List of dates &/or events to include on your mid-spring and summer calendars  (List Plan it)
Setting goals for yourself as a Home Manager   (Organizing your way)
Save Time and Keystrokes with Test Expander   (Blogging your way)
5 tips for Working at Home Productively   (Success your way)
Your Digital SLR: Lesson 5: What I use when and why       (Allison Walken)
AwayFind launches new features...    (Uncluttered)


DIY Projects that I saved to favorites
Batman: A super hero party   (The Party Dress)
DIY Vases for Mother's Day   (Modern Parents Messy Kids)
Mother's Day cupcake toppers   (No biggie)
Appreciate your favorite teacher with a DIY Survival Kit     (Modern Parents Messy Kids)
Great Ideas - Handmade Mother's Day Gifts to Make    (Tatertots and Jello)


Recipes
16-minute Meal: Shrimp Scampi    (The Pioneer Woman Cooks)
Asparagus Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich   (Closet Cooking)
Puffy Cheddar Roasted Potatoes    (Cheeky Kitchen)
Puff Pastry Maple Bars    (Barbara Bakes)
Grilled Chicken Salad with Feta, Fresh Corn and Blueberries    (The Pioneer Woman Cooks)
Why not?    (BitterSweet)
Pine nuts are expensive    (I made that!)
Breakfast Quesadillas     (GoodLife Eats)
Brown Butter Carnival Bars       (The Sophisticate Gourmet)
Top 10 Reasons You Shouldn't Plan a Weekly Menu    (Food your way)


Life, Family and Soul  
How to Practice Mindfulness  (Peace & Projects)
Coping   (I took the one less traveled by)
Praying for your Child to Promote God's Kingdom    (The Tuckers take Tennessee)
12 Months Later: 12 People I need to Thank    (Blog of Impossible Things: B.I.T.)
Six Ideas For Exploring Nature with Kids (Not just Cute)
Traveling while Pregnant     (Baby Mine)
**Homeschooling is not Optional    (Motherhood your way)
Play room     (Becky's Blog)
**In Which It's only Fair     (Badass Geek)
BYU Women's Conference    (Your Homebased Mom)
38 Life Lessons I've Learned in 38 Years    (Zen Habits)
Please Pray    (Fly through my Window)


Eye Candy - Design 
Prop Happy      (Creature Comforts)
Color me Pretty    (Decor 8)
My Kitchen intervention  (Urban Grace Interiors)
Saveur Magazine 2011    (Cannelle et Vanille)