Parenting

Ponchos from Skipping Hippos
From their adorable name to the angelic photos on their website, Skipping Hippos had me enchanted from my first visit. So I was more than happy to see one of their adorable ponchos in person.
My only problem was trying to choose which colorful combinations of fleece and trim I liked best. They are all so [...]

The Finalists in the Summer Fun Photo Contest 2008
Wow! The response was overwhelming for our Summer Fun Photo Contest sponsored by Skinny Cow.
While making our final selections last night, Janice had her husband go across the border to purchase some more Skinny Cow Ice Cream, including Skinny Dippers. She’s hooked I tell you!
There were over 400 submissions and some amazing photos. It’s always [...]
The Sampler - Understanding? Impossible.
5 Minutes for Mom brings you exclusive samplings from the best mom blogs in our weekly column, The Sampler, hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing editor Shera, from A Frog In My Soup.
Recently Rachel Callahan, the mom behind the blog, Grasping for Objectivity in my Subjective Life introduced herself to me and offered today’s [...]

Blogs can change lives… wanna help us change one?
If you’ve spent some time in the blogosphere, you’ve likely learned that blogs can change lives. Well, this week we had the chance to change one and now we want you to help us change another!
The other night I was emailing back and forth with Tammy, our managing editor for 5 Minutes for Special Needs [...]

Once Upon A Time There Was A Retard….
Such is the tag line to a new, big budget, R-rated summer movie opening this week. “Tropic Thunder” is a comedy produced by DreamWorks/Paramount, and directed and written by Ben Stiller, who also stars in the movie.
The plot includes a group of pampered actors, lost in the jungle while making a [...]
5 Minutes for Books — The Manual for Motherhood
Can I be honest here?
I think of books like The Manual for Motherhood, edited by Christine Fugate, as books for people who don’t really read books. This book is relatively thin (under 150 pages) and made up of about 30 different essays by 30 different writers. It’s more like a magazine than a [...]

I am a cloth diapering FAILURE!!!
I wish I were more Green. I hate chemicals and I hate ruining our planet, so I’m trying bit by bit to turn a little greener each day.
And thanks to our new sister site, 5 Minutes for Going Green, I’m getting a little help adding a bit more ‘green’ to each day.
Well, over at Going [...]

We’ve Found the Puppies a Hand-Picked Home!
I had no idea so many of you would want to adopt these (stuffed) puppies!
I spent hours going through all of the posts and comments trying to choose which home would be the perfect match for these three homeless pups.
Choosing is the hardest part.
There are so many of you who deserve these puppies and who [...]
The Sampler - Multitasking
5 Minutes for Mom brings you exclusive samplings from the best mom blogs in our weekly column, The Sampler, hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing editor Shera, from A Frog In My Soup.
When Jaime Compton submitted the post below she included a fun and unusual introduction that I would like to share with all [...]

Three (Stuffed) Puppies Need Homes – Quickly!
We have three adorable stuffed, plush life-size puppies to send to one of you!
These three stuffed animals are from our store A Rocking Horse To Love. They are brand-new and still in their packaging, but the customer who ordered them was from a large company who was going to be using them in some event [...]
It is time to join the boys…
This past weekend, Olivia and I stayed home while my husband and Jackson headed out on our family vacation without us! (Every year we go away with my in laws for the weekend and attend a Bocci tournament/huge party at his parent’s friends’ house and then we go to our cabin for a week.)
Partly due [...]

Now on Video — Meet Steph from 5 Minutes for Parenting — Part 1
Meeting our blogging friends in person is a little bizarre.
After spending days/weeks/months/years seeing each other in photos, talking on the phone, emailing, instant messaging and of course reading about the details of each others’ lives on our blogs, I find meeting in person to be a bit like meeting an old friend for coffee. [...]

Video Interview with Humor Blogger Dawn from “Because I Said So” — Part 1
Janice and I had a fun chat with the popular humor blogger and author Dawn Meehan from Because I Said So.
Dawn is famous for her ebay auction where she sold a set of Pokemon cards and indirectly drove enormous levels of traffic to her blog.
Her auction was hilarious and her quality humor blog turned those [...]

The Sampler - Longing for the Terrible Twos
5 Minutes for Mom brings you exclusive samplings from the best mom blogs in our weekly column, The Sampler, hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing editor Shera, from A Frog In My Soup.
Jackie from “where the boys are” is the mother of three boys ages 16, 13 & 9. She is the wife of [...]

Squeaky Feet Kids Shoes
When my son was around a year old, my husband and I waited in anticipation for his first steps. And when that day finally came, we were thrilled, to say the least. But it didn’t take long for our little guy to realize that walking took effort, while crawling could get him to his destination [...]

The Sampler - I Have A Three Year Old
5 Minutes for Mom brings you exclusive samplings from the best mom blogs in our weekly column, The Sampler, hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing editor Shera, from A Frog In My Soup.
Amanda blogs about every day life at her blog, I Am Mommy. As I was browsing around Amanda’s blog and stumbled [...]

5 Minutes for Books — I Brake for Meltdowns
I have a four-year-old son who sometimes displays exasperating behavior, so I was very interested in reading I Brake for Meltdowns: How to handle the most exasperating behavior of your 2 to 5 year old. I told my sister-in-law, mother of a three-year-old daughter (whose behavior I will not classify here on the [...]

The Sampler - That Smile
5 Minutes for Mom brings you exclusive samplings from the best mom blogs in our weekly column, The Sampler, hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing editor Shera, from A Frog In My Soup.
Christie O’Sullivan is the journalist turned stay-at-home mommy of 2 boys behind Baby Tea Leaves. Her first son was born prematurely [...]

Want to see real beauty?
Click over to our sister site 5 Minutes for Special Needs and watch as Conny Wenk “shows the world the beauty found in the face of Down syndrome.”

I’m back - and WOW does this place look fantastic!
I have been on an island. With no internet access. During the very week we launched our new look - and added four fabulous new sister sites. It has been rough. Thankfully, my twin sister and co-blogger Susan was still connected and working day and night. (And apparently long nights.)
While life on the island was [...]