Summer vacation is half over and it’s sent me into a bit of a panic. I haven’t done half of the stuff I was excited to do with the kids while school was out. To help me get organized, yesterday I offered seven great things to do around the Seattle area before Labor Day that […]
July 2010
I was plugging away at work this morning when I looked up to check the date to include on a letter. When I saw July 20 staring me in the face I had a little panic attack. July 20 already? The summer is half over. I have only seven more weeks to play before the […]
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles. Recently I had the great fortune of crossing paths with Amy McCready, founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, Inc. She runs a very comprehensive educational website chocked full of parenting advice focused solely toward helping parents raise capable, well behaved children with high self esteem. Amy offers a free […]
You may have noticed that little button that recently showed up in the upper left corner of Heligirl. There’s a really exciting reason it’s there. I took an amazing parenting webinar from Positive Parenting Solutions last month just before my vacation and was completely floored by all the great information available, how it was presented, […]
Our house has an unspoken rule. The dogs and cats wrote it, but the kids seem to know it intuitively and follow it to the letter. That rule is: no one pees alone in our house. Or poos for that matter. No one. Ever. Period. Gotta go? You’d better not close the door all the […]
Today is a big new first here at Heligirl. I’ve done a blog swap with Ericka from Alabaster Cow. Hop on over to check out my brutally honest post about the guardian angel who entered my life when I was a pathetically miserable “victim” of my circumstance and taught me a simple, yet infinitely valuable […]
Today was a special day. I have Wednesdays off and am loving being home with the kids one day a week, especially in the summer. We get to do stuff when everyone else is at work. It’s like my mini-SAHM experience, without the Prozac (meaning if I was a SAHM I’d most likely need it […]
Those there bloggy awards are sure coming fast and furious. I had to go to the dry cleaner to get my red carpet dress pressed. What a dilemma to have. So, as was so eloquently done before me, I shall share with you who I am wearing as I strut down the red carpet. Joan […]
