November 30th, 2008
I’m finding it hard to sit here and write this today but putting it off won’t do any good. Today is my last post here at Inside Motherhood.
I have enjoyed sharing posts with you, whether they were kid-friendly recipes, personal anecdotes, funny parenting videos, or news stories that make you ask what the hell parents are thinking. I love asking questions and getting answers from other parents who have been there.
However, I’ve come to the point where I think this blog would flourish better with someone else at the helm so today I move on in the hopes that new, wonderful blogger will soon pick up the reins to talk to you about life inside motherhood!
But fear not, I’ll still be around. I write several celebrity blogs (PittWatch, Britney Groupie, Aguilera Buff, and Style Crunch) and also maintain a personal site (Chaos Theory) if you’d like to stay in touch. Please feel free to drop by my other Internet “homes” and say hello!
Happy parenting and thank you for all the fun!
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November 27th, 2008
I’d like to wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to all my American Inside Motherhood readers! Have a wonderful holiday! Since I’m Canadian and already celebrated last month, please feel free to have an extra slice of pumpkin pie on my behalf.
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November 24th, 2008
My little one just turned three last Thursday, and we had a party with family and friends on Saturday evening. She’s obsessed with dinosaurs, so in a fit of creativity I thought of something special I could do with her cake. If you have a dinosaur-loving child too, here’s what you can do:
All I needed was a regular cake baked in a bundt pan (my mother-in-law actually took care of that for me since our oven is on the fritz). Then I used chocolate fudge icing to turn it into a nice mountain. I used an extra large blob of the icing to mostly fill in the hole in the center as well.
then I took some red fruit roll-up strips and twisted them, then draped them from the center of the cake to the outside to make “lava” which then turned the mountain into a volcano.
My daughter has a ton of dinosaur figurines and some of them are fairly small so I washed those in the sink and then placed them around the top of the volcano.
When it was all done - and it took me no more than 15 minutes - it looked pretty cute and when she saw it the next day, she was ecstatic over her dinosaur cake. Easy and fun!
(Some people ask me why there are four candles - around my area it’s common to put a candle for each year of the child’s age, plus one for good luck. I thought it was something everyone did, but maybe it’s a Canadian thing. Do you do an extra candle for luck on your cakes?)
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November 18th, 2008
Today is a very special day - I’d like to wish a very happy birthday to everyone’s favorite rodent. Mickey Mouse turns 80 years old today!
I can’t believe he’s been around so long and still making kids of this generation smile just as much as those past. My three-year-old watches one of three Mickey Mouse movies that we own on a regular basis.
Even though I don’t have a lot of memories from age three, I do remember being at Disney World and watching the Mickey Mouse parade. I really hope that one day we’ll be in a position to take our girls to see Mickey and the gang too.
Happy 80th birthday Mickey! You still look great!
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November 16th, 2008
I can’t deny the truth - I love watching America’s Funniest Home Videos, especially when they show funny videos with parents and kids. I won’t go out of my way to watch it, but if I happen to catch it, I usually end up in tears from laughing so hard.
This video features a funny collection of mishaps at the park:
I can’t decide which was my favorite, but I’m leaning towards the dad who fell out of the bucket-shaped merry-go-round.
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November 13th, 2008
You can get text messages sent to your cell phone. Now you can get a Booty Call too. The Booty Caller is a service that sends you three text messages per menstrual cycle to alert you to when you might want to hop into bed in the hopes of conceiving.
The service alerts you to the beginning of you fertile days (and may suggest some method of relaxation to help you avoid getting stressed about your hopes), the last day you have in that cycle to try for a baby, and will even give you tips like having your husband avoid hot tubs.
There’s no charge for the service.
I think it’s a cute idea although I’m not sure how much good it would do for someone with an irregular cycle. If that’s your case, you’d probably be better off using a basal body thermometer to be sure of your fertility times. However, if you’ve got a fairly steady cycle and marking notes on your calendar doesn’t mesh with your busy life, getting a text message alert on your cell phone just might be a great way to keep track!
Would you use this kind of service?
Image: SXC
(Source: MomLogic)
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