This week I'm heading off on vacation so I'll be having my own Summer Family Fun, but please link up and share your family fun ideas so I can have ideas for when I return! We've been seeing some awesome ideas so far! Your 30 Summer Family Fun Cohosts Barb of A Life in Balance Mitzi of Written Reality Jen of Making Our Life Matter Candi of A Day in Candiland Steph of A Grande Life Laina of The Art of Living Fabulously Reesa of Momma Lew Bethany of The Southern Couture Paris of My Big … [Read more...]
Summer Family Fun Linky Party
During the summer months life gets busy for families with traveling, kids being home from school and needs to be entertained and hopefully lots of sprinkler time! To help give you more ideas of summer family fun I've joined a Summer Family Fun Party. Each Tuesday at 8pm the link list below will open up and you can browse awesome summer family fun ideas!Let's get this summer of fun started! Your 30 Summer Family Fun Cohosts Barb of A Life in Balance Mitzi of Written Reality Jen of Making … [Read more...]
Happiness is Family Travel
I'm so happy (see what I did there!) to team up with HappyFamily to talk about what makes me happy. For our family, happiness is traveling together. We have been blessed to travel the world, see different cultures and meet new people. I have enjoyed our family travel experiences so far and look forward to a lifetime of traveling with my favorite people!This summer had a family first. We took a huge road trip to Springfield, IL, Columbus, OH, Hershey, PA, Niagara Falls, NY, … [Read more...]
Giving the Benefit of the Doubt
There are millions of blogs on the internet. Everyday I'm sure many of those millions of blogs publish an article that could be viewed as offensive to someone, somewhere. Often one of these "offensive" articles will go viral and spread like wildfire to the masses of "offended" people. Why people want to share an article that hurts their feelings is beyond me. Now I'm not talking about articles that are purposefully intended to be hurtful, demeaning or otherwise cruel, I'm talking about articles … [Read more...]
I’ve Got the Power – TYLT
Disclosure: I received free product samples for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ. Raise your hand if dead batteries are really frustrating to you? Whether it is your phone, tablet, GPS, computer, portable game system or any other device, it is so frustrating when they die. Either you need them for some reason, or it is your child's device and they need it. My kids are not happy when their tablet dies in the middle of a game, or when I … [Read more...]
Premium Business Cards from Oubly
Disclosure: Though I received a product sample and compensation, all opinions are my own. Yours may differ. www.Oubly.com is an online stationary boutique dedicated to quality products. Proof of this quality is found in the product and packaging. I love the unique Oubly branded packaging they sent along with my business cards. They sent a sturdy box to hold my business cards as well as a box to hold business cards I receive. Both of these "extras" are very useful to me as … [Read more...]
I’m a New Author on Examiner.com
I am expanding my range of writing to include journalist. Writing a blog is somewhat easy in that I can just tell stories all day long. Things happen in my life and I can tell the story. Being a journalist using words like "I", "me", "we" aren't allowed. Let me tell you it is hard to switch between the two modes.I recently became the Kansas City Family Travel Examiner and would LOVE your support with this new endeavor. Please check out my profile and subscribe to my articles. I will only be … [Read more...]
Tax Time Receipt OrganizationTips
As the tax filing deadline approaches (are you done yet?) let me take this moment to share a tip I learned from my friend Jenni at Sweet Pennies from Heaven. We were talking about how to keep receipts organized for our websites, so that when tax time comes and we need to deduct our website expenses it would be easier to do. She suggested getting 12 folders and labeling them each month of the year and then adding the receipts to the appropriate month. GENIUS right?! Well as I was shopping I came … [Read more...]
The One Person you can Stalk and End up with a Present Instead of a Restraining Order
Wow that title was a mouth full, but I had to make sure I had your attention and that you were going to read this! You WANT to read this! There is a little man, well more of fairy of sorts, called the Fairy Hobmother:He travels around the Blogosphere spreading light and joy (in the form of an amazon gift card) where'er he goes. Now I have been "stalking" the Fairy Hobmother for a couple months now, as that is the only way to get his attention. If you would love to have this little creature … [Read more...]
Pintastic Pinning Party
Welcome to our Weekly Pintastic Pinning Party!! Each week we'll be hosting a Pinning Party for you to link up your favorite pins, find new pins to re-pin and to find some new pinners to follow. Sounds like a Pintastic Good Time right?! So Find some Pinspiration This Week!! Each week the Pintastic Pinning Party will start on Sunday evening. You may link up on Blogging Mom of 4 or any of our weekly hosts. Each week we will be changing hosts to give you all fresh new Pintastic Pinning content … [Read more...]
The Best of Last Week
Last week I had the chance to work with some amazing bloggers. We got together and chose our favorite posts to be featured in this "Best of " post! Check out the articles from these awesome bloggers. Rebecca from Moms Saving Money has a great tip on how to add fabric softener to homemade laundry detergent. Since I have started making a lot of our household products, I thought this was a great idea and super easy as well! Colleen at My Vegan Gluten-Free … [Read more...]
Making Money with Twitter
Do you love to tweet? Do you have a lot of followers on twitter? Did you know there is a way to make money from twitter?! I JUST found out about this program called Sponsored Tweets. You set the price you want to get paid per tweet. Sponsored tweets will give you a suggestion of what they think your tweets are worth, but you can enter any amount you want. Then companies can approach you about tweeting information for them. It is an awesome system! I'm excited to get started with this program! … [Read more...]
Win a Paid Internship
Remember the HUGE giveaway going on right now? You know where you can win gift cards, a Kitchen Aid, a Kuerig, a Dyson and a 3 month paid internship??? Well here is a video to give you an idea of the internship you would be winning!! Grab some popcorn and enjoy! :) … [Read more...]
Bloggers Wanted – Miche Handbag Giveaway
Bloggers Wanted!! Join the Miche Handbag Event, hosted by Kara’s Deals and Steals.Prize: Complete Miche handbag – Prima Base with Tereasa Shell {$79.95 Value}Giveaway Dates: November 17 – December 1Open to the Continental U.S. Bloggers can choose a free link for posting and promoting the giveaway! There are paid options and host pages available as well. Sign up here. … [Read more...]
$100 Amazon Giveaway- Bloggers Wanted!
Hosted by: Happy Home and Family Hey bloggers it's time to get in on this fun giveaway for FREE! $100 Amazon Gift Card runs from 11/25-12/15 and is open worldwide! Hurry, Sign up HERE Please mention Making of a Mom referred you. … [Read more...]
