Archive for October, 2011:

Giveaway: A Greener Kitchen

I recently signed up for a pilot program with Rafflecopter, working toward developing a platform to connect companies looking to promote their products with bloggers interested in running giveaways, and so you’ll see several giveaways from me over the next little bit. It’s exciting to see new opportunities pop up, but I’m working hard to [...]

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Nursery

I’ve already covered how it works to deal with a baby during LDS worship services, but I wanted to bring it up again because we’ve reached an important milestone… T1 is entering Nursery! In LDS culture, saying this elicits high fives and congratulations from fellow parents. Before now, we were wrestling him down for 3 [...]

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October Photo Challenge: Week 2

Day 8: Bad Habit This picture demonstrates laziness in two ways. First, because I couldn’t seem to get my act together and take a picture with my dSLR. So you get an iphone picture. Second way this demonstrates laziness? This is my bad habit, both not locking the cabinet to prevent him from pulling all [...]

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Power of Moms Chicago Retreat

On Tuesday the 25th of October I’ll be taking a little me time. Not in the form of a GNO or pedicure or trip to visit cupcakes (although I wouldn’t turn any of those down if That Husband wanted to take on the task of watching the baby) but a half day retreat held by [...]

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Long Exposure

On Saturday the October Photo Challenge assignment is to use a long exposure. To understand what this means, you’ll need to know how shutter speed works, which I’ve covered here. Long exposure means you keep your shutter open for a longer period of time (this amount of time is determined by you) and (generally) doing [...]

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