Hi all – Mama Juju has a bit of a bee in her bonnet. The buzz is
teenage dating. It’s like this - The hubby and I decided when our
kiddos were itty bitty babies that we wanted our kids to be
emotionally mature before they took themselves a beau (or
beauette). To us, emotionally…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 10:25 pm
“Fruit is icky!” Is this a common phrase in your house? If you are
like us, we have jumped through many hoops to get our kiddos
to eat something healthy. Dressing food up, disguising it, hiding
under chocolate – that’s right, under chocolate. Peanut butter
works well too! What we need are tips for getting…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 29, 2012 - 1:49 pm
Hi All – It has been a crazy busy week and I didn’t find myself
much in Mama Juju’s corner. Mama said that there’d be days (in my
case – weeks) like this! So in my final mad dashing around here at
the end of this week, I wanted to leave you with this video.…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 26, 2012 - 10:45 pm
Hi all – My life can have the funniest twists to it.
Thankfully I am blessed with a sense of humor. Sometimes it appears
at, well, at inopportune times. And this happened the other day…my
#5 was coming up with some elaborate plan to do the most simplest
part of his math schoolwork. The gyrations…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 23, 2012 - 1:15 pm
Your report card said you got a 2.8 this semester. I thought you
told me that your classes were so easy! You have had 4 unexcused
tardies this semester. But Mom, jazz is too easy! Hi all – this is
a glimpse in to a few of the gazillion conversations I had with a
couple…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 19, 2012 - 3:13 pm
My son came home from school heartbroken today – his girlfriend
broke up with him (via a friend based on what something another boy
said supposedly!). He was crying buckets which was hard enough. But
what was even harder was he wouldn’t talk to us. No that is an
understatement, he yelled at us that…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 17, 2012 - 11:10 am
Hi all – Are you confused – I am doing the Terrific Tuesday on
Wednesday. It is Wednesday right? Been out of town visiting with my
mom and didn’t want to pass up on the sweepstakes/giveaways day. So
this is a day late but not a dollar short! Trip to LA with ET’s
Hanging with…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 16, 2012 - 6:23 pm
Posting someone else’s blog is not something I normally am want to
do – except of course when the brain cells aren’t firing on all 8
or when there is a post that must be repeated. And this is one of
them - You may not know this but Matt and I were unable to…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 11, 2012 - 4:06 pm
Hi all. What seems to worry moms most? Well I don’t know if this is
true for you, but for sure for me, it’s my kids health. Thinkin’
maybe a few helpful hints today will give us all a bit of peace of
mind. Salt – What is a baseline for intake? Here’s a couple…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 10, 2012 - 6:33 pm
Howdy! I read this really cool article the other day
titled Old-Fashioned Friendship. And it sure got me thinkin’.
You see, for some reason we tend to think that the best way to grow
up children is the way we grew up. Why is that? Let me share from
that blog the part that caught my…
[Continue Reading]Date Published: May 09, 2012 - 3:24 pm