

(Be sure to check out her amazing strawberry pretzel parfaits she contributed to my site today). I’m honored to call her my friend and so inspired by her cooking and the way she lives her life.

Hello! I’m thrilled to be “blog swapping” with Jo-Lynne today. Please make her feel welcome! 5 Fast Memory Keeping Ideas with Jessica Turner I’m over at The Mom Creative sharing one of my favorite summer recipes, and Jessica is going to share some of her best memory keeping ideas (no glue required!) As a former Creative Memories consultant and lifelong scrapbooker, this is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, and Jessica has a variety of ways to preserve your family’s memories that I think you’ll enjoy. With that, I will turn it over to Jessica. Jessica and I are doing a “blog swap” today. She holds down a full-time job, she runs a successful blog and she is about to publish her first book! All the while, she is a thoughtful and attentive mom who enjoys crafting and memory keeping in her “spare” time. This morning I’m excited to introduce you to Jessica Turner, the voice behind The Mom Creative.

I looked at my calendar, and sure enough Continue reading “For Just One Week, I Want to Be One of THOSE Moms” Um, I believe your appointment is scheduled for next Tuesday, May 13th. until I got to the reception desk to check in and they started looking quizzically at their computer, trying to locate our appointment. I was pleased that I managed to get everyone picked up at the right schools at the right times and made it to the dentist office with a minute to spare despite the fact that I missed my turn and somehow got lost in the neighborhood behind the practice and had to turn on my GPS to right myself and get back to my destination. I was patting myself on the back when I sent a note with my son so that he would be dismissed from school without me having to arrive and call up for him and wait. I was pretty proud of myself for remembering that my kids had dentist appointments this morning. One week without going to the wrong doctor’s office, or taking the wrong kid to the doctor’s office, or going to the doctor’s office on the wrong date, or getting the appointment time wrong, or missing an appointment that somehow didn’t make it to my calendar… does anyone REALLY listen to phone messages these days? They should really TEXT appointment reminders, jeez. For just one week of my life, I would like to be one of those moms who has it together.
