Take Me Out to the Ball Game Even if the Yankees Lose

Yesterday, I took Jason to Yankee Stadium for the Yankees/Blue Jays afternoon game. We got tickets from my brother-in-law Steve, so we met him and his son Matthew at the stadium. (We recently had Steve’s daughter Amanda over for a sleepover if you remember. We just can’t get rid of these guys…) The day started with us getting to the train station just in time to catch an earlier train than expected! Bonus! Except… we …

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I Made Turkey Kielbasa Tacos! (Plus Hillshire Farm Giveaway!)

Like most intelligent humans, I’m a big fan of bacon. In fact, for breakfast every day I have a boring old bowl of oatmeal, along with four slices of bacon. Okay, fine. Turkey bacon. But that’s only because of some silly high cholesterol thing, and yeah I’m trying to eat healthy. Thing is, as much as I love bacon, when it comes to breakfast meats, I actually prefer sausage. And speaking of sausage (see how …

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We Had a Daughter This Weekend! (But Ended Up Returning Her)

Kids for sale

  This weekend we got to see what it’d be like to have a daughter. Since there aren’t any “Rent a Daughter” shops in our area of the country, we had to make due with our 11-year-old niece Amanda. Okay, fine. We had an impromptu sleepover with my sister-in-law’s daughter, but for a day,  we got to pretend she wasn’t our niece. My kids are always excited for any sort of sleepover, but extra excited …

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My Playlist or I Wanna Rock (blog hop)

Apparently Trisha over at Momdot.com has caught the blog hop bug because she’s at it again. Or is it a blog carnival? I can’t really keep it straight. All I know is that the poor woman desparately needs a new iPhone since her current one is cracked beyond belief. The latest Blog Carnival is a blog post showing off the playlists on your computer or iPod or whatever MP3 player you use. I’ve got my …

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Fifty Shades of Pain

Fifty Shades of Grey

A few weeks ago I attended a Cafe Mom party tying in to the Blog Her 12 conference that was happening in NYC at the time. It was a great chance for me to meet the editors I’ve been working with for months now. I always feel it helps, no matter what the business, to make face time with the people you work with remotely. I had a great time at the party and am …

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