Category: Personal

Let’s Talk About Sex

 This is a compensated post written by me on behalf of Sony Pictures. 

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Let’s talk about sex.

This is not a topic I normally talk about on my blog, but after seeing the trailer for a hilarious movie called Sex Tape coming out in July with Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal, I had to write about it because most of us married with children people will be able to relate. Big time.

The movie is about a couple who have been married for ten years, two kids, are still very much in love, but well, the passion of the early days has cooled off. In an attempt to bring back the heat to their marriage, they decide to make a sex tape, and the private video is accidentally, shared. Oh, the horror!

You just have to watch the trailer, you will laugh out loud.

Keeping the passion alive after children 

The moment you have children, or actually, the moment you find out you are pregnant, your sex life changes. Dramatically….

I love it in the movie when Annie says,

Shopping with the Serta Test Rest App!

I am a Serta brand ambassador and am compensated for my participation and receive complimentary products to help educate readers about the brand and their dreamy mattresses.  Recently my husband and I visited Friedmans Sleep Center in Long Beach to test out the new 2014 Serta iComfort and iSeries mattresses which were newly redesigned this year and they… Continue reading Shopping with the Serta Test Rest App!

My Summer Incentive System

My Summer Incentive System for Kids

I just finished the first full week of summer with both girls home and out of school, and we had a really pleasant week. In summer’s past, this has not always been the case, which is why I am thrilled to pieces at the splendor of what some rainbow popsicle sticks can do.

I attribute the first week success to my new summer incentive system to inspire behaviors that make them nice humans to be around.

And it worked! Well. Which is why I am sharing with you today…

Kids’ Birthday Parties: The Gray Areas

Kids Birthday Parties: Siblings? Drop off?

Recently we shared a post on our Facebook page that got a ton of comments and shares and I could just hear moms everywhere yelling “Amen sister!”  On that note, we have some really good stuff we share on our Facebook page, if you don’t follow, please click here to like us. I think you will be happy you did.

The post was from a blogger called Scary Mommy (she’s hilarious – highly recommend following if you don’t already) with an attempt to unite moms across America to end the birthday party favor tradition for kids.

I am so on board.

Nothing bugs me more than cheap trinkets cluttering our house, and once the kids leave the party, they likely never touch them again. I would rather the host save their money. Isn’t the party enough for the kids?

Her post got me thinking about another pet peeve of mine regarding kids’ birthday parties…

The Truth About Family “Vacations” with Young Kids

The truth about family vacations with young kids

 

That photo above was taken as I was setting the self-timer on my camera in an attempt to capture a family photo of the four of us on our recent El Capitan Canyon glamping trip.

Every time we tried to take a photo, someone was not looking or doing something stupid, and I got to the point where I said, “We will do this as many times as it takes to get ONE good photo of our family together on this vacation!!!!!!”

Note their enthusiastic faces. Husband included.

Which inspired this post: the truth about family “vacations” with young kids.

Yes, we had the most amazing trip overall, but there are definitely moments within a family “vacation” that are not so pleasant…