A Mom is Born: Welcome to Virginia Kerr’s Virtual Baby Shower!
Hi Everyone! As you know, I was honored to be a hostess for the virtual baby shower for Virginia Kerr, the anchor on KMOV’s early news show in St. Louis, Awake! Below are links to the shower – 5 minute “highlights” segment as well as the full two hour shower in two separate segments. We raised $6,584.17 [...]
Grocery Shop Once, Have Yummy Meals All Week Long (Guest post, Recipes)
Hi All: I was lamenting to my friend and former co-worker Margo, Mutitasking Mom, about how difficult it can be as a single parent to get great meals on the table without feeling like you are in the grocery store every five minutes…leave it up to Margo to solve that dilemma! In this delicious guest [...]
A Mom Is Born: The Virtual Baby Shower Celebrating a Woman’s Journey into Motherhood
You are invited to a Virtual Baby Shower for Virgina Kerr, anchor on KMOV’s early news show, Awake! The parenting resource site MyMommyManual.com and television station site, KMOV are co-hosting A Mom Is Born: The Virtual Baby Shower Celebrating a Woman’s Journey into Motherhood. It is scheduled for Wednesday, August 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 [...]
What’s This Single Mom Up To?
Hi Everyone – I thought I would share a little update on goings on with my book, some of my posts at Working Mother Magazine, and what I’ve been doing on The Single Mothers Chronicles Facebook page….so first the book… I am so happy to say that there is a publisher interested in my book! [...]
Back to School Discount Codes – Save at Your Favorite Stores (Yahoo!)
All I could say was “Hooray!!” when I found out about CurrentCodes.com! Why? Because CurrentCodes.com is an online database that categorizes thousands and thousands of coupons and secret “checkout codes” to help save big on your back2school purchases just about anywhere – check it out. Next time you go to buy a backpack, textbooks, supplies, electronics, clothes [...]
Camping Tips From the Indoorsy (Guest Post)
Good day fellow non-campers (and campers who look upon us luxury-hotel-preferring-mannequins with a mix of pity and kindness)…my wonderful blogger friend Naomi de la Torre, mother of two year old and five year old boys and proprietor of the Organic Motherhood With Coolwhip blog, has graciously agreed to write a guest post for us and I am so, [...]
You can spend the rest of the year in your room! You’re grounded for a month! You’re going to bed now!
Have you ever heard a stream of haphazard punishments come spewing out of your mouth? Err….ummm…I’ve done that. And I’ve gotten an angry, eye-rolling response back from my daughter. And then I’ve felt ridiculous because I can’t even remember what I’ve rattled off. Apparently I am not alone (whew!) because Scott Gale, author of Your [...]
I Feel Sad When My Dad Lies to Me
“So Mom, do you want to play this game with me? You go first with the ‘I feel…’ part.” “Okay…,” said distracted me to my eight-year-old daughter, who had been wanting to play a game. “I feel like eating ice cream.” “I feel sad when my dad lies to me.” Whoa. I stopped doing the [...]

