What is Your Favorite Christmas Song? One of the many things I love about this time of year is all of the fantastic music! I love Christmas music, and I love singing along. My voice is nothing to stop anyone in their tracks (well…unless they stop to say, “what on earth is that noise?”), but […]
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Kids and Their Sense Of Entitlement – An Issue With Bullying
Kids And Their Sense of Entitlement – An Issue With Bullying I have so much work to do, and so many posts to write, but I cannot concentrate until I get this off of my chest. As I just shared on facebook, I just got back from my kids’ school, where I was watching the […]
Had Enough With Bullying: I Am Mama Lion, Hear Me Roar!
Enough With Bullying! I Am Mama Lion, Hear Me Roar! I feel so charged with frustration, anger and sadness this afternoon. I have this blog and I figured I might as well use it to express my frustrations, but also to give other moms the courage to stand up for their kids. I have had […]
I’m a Powerful Princess and Nobody Can Stop Me
I was sitting in my room working when Little Girl runs in holding a giant nerf gun, with tears streaming down her face and crying loudly, “I’m a Powerful Princess and Nobody Can Stop Me!!” Then she screamed something about her brothers not getting her. This little girl seriously cracks me up time and time […]
Skylanders Cake For Twins’ 7th Birthday
Skylanders Cake It’s no secret that my 7 year old twin boys are infatuated with Skylanders! Now that Skylanders has released its sequel, Skylanders Giants, the hype and excitement is even more intense. The twins just celebrated their 7th birthday on Sunday. They wanted nothing more than to have a Skylanders Birthday Cake made by […]
Barbie’s Pregnant Kid Sister: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Barbie’s Pregnant Kid Sister? While browsing on Pinterest this afternoon, I came across a photo of a pregnant Barbie. It brought up lots of questions in my head as to whether or not I thought the doll was appropriate, and would I let my daughter play with it? I decided to do a little google […]
A Smile To My Face Thanks To AT&T Representative – WHAT?
A Smile To My Face OH MY GOODNESS!! I just had a smile brought to my face by a very rare AT&T customer service representative. This is rare indeed as most AT&T representatives brings something much more harsh to my face! For the past 3-4 months, my AT&T (internet and phone) bill has been having […]
Should Curvy Women Wear Leggings?
What do you think – Should Curvy Women Wear Leggings? The weather has started cooling off up here in Northern California and it has begged me to break out the leggings. I have put on some pounds this year, so it really made me question whether or not I could still pull of this look […]
Top Clever Housewife Posts for 2012
Top Clever Housewife Posts for 2012 Just for fun, I thought I would do a quick post to share with you, the top Clever Housewife Posts for 2012. The year isn’t over yet, but these posts have been the most popular (in order of appearance). So if you have missed any of these posts for […]
Wordless Wednesday: First Soccer Game
I am a little late in the day for this, but after all, it is still Wednesday in California! Here are the pictures from my oldest’s first soccer game of the season! So fun watching him! That’s my lefty, surprising the other team with a left-footed steal.