Now that my blog is redesigned, all of my Momz Share profiles and information can be found under the Momz Share tab.  No worries though, I still plan on letting you know when a new blogger is being featured!

Check out the latest profile – Parenting BY Dummies!

Today is a big day for me.  I am launching my new business AND revealing my blog redesign all in one day!  Hey, I had to do SOMETHING while I was snowed in, didn’t I?

What do you think of the new blog site?  I am so happy with it.  I just feel like it looks less cluttered and more clean.

IN OTHER NEWS….

My new business website is being launched today as well.  I (we) have officially launched Bring It To Fruition.  Please go check it out and let me know what you think!

And for those of you in the market to redesign your Wordpress blogs, you should really consider working with SimplyWP.  They designed BOTH of these sites.  YEP.  My business site is a Wordpress site.  How awesome is that?

Thanks for stopping by today!  And by the way – full disclosure – I paid for both of these sites Mr. FTC.  Just sayin’….

I promised a follow up Vlog for this one, didn’t I?  Well, here ya go!  We got just a teeny bit of snow people.

Now it is time to begin going stir crazy.  Cause you know we’re not getting out of this sucker easily.

So this is what my front yard looks like right now. (8:30am)  And it is still snowing and snowing and snowing.  I’ll do the follow up Vlog to this tomorrow as promised.

So we are literally STUCK HERE. Nowhere to go. Luckily, we still have power at this point.  I have heard some of my Twitter pals up the road are dealing with outages already.

That would be awful.  (And what if the Internet connection went out?  GAH! THE HORROR!)

So I am going to use this opportunity to tackle two projects – my blog redesign (yippie!) and to write the copy for my new businesses website.  (Which I fully plan to share with you once it is up!)

And can I just say that I have the coolest neighbors in the world?  We are hoping to have a snow party later on today.  We’re hoping to build ourselves an ice bar in the cul-de-sac.  How awesome is that?

IT’S FLASHBACK FRIDAY!
Today’s Flashback Friday was originally posted on March 2oth of last year
and it is STILL RELEVANT.  Wish I could claim that it was not, BUT…

I am concerned about future interaction with my children. At this point in my life I am the all-knowing-all-seeing-mother-of-the-world.

I see that changing fast. SUPER fast. The kids are already hitting me with questions that, quite frankly, I can’t answer. Technical questions. SCIENCE questions.

I am just going to go ahead and be honest with you – science was not my best subject in school. Truthfully, I squeeked by. Barely.

And although I would consider myself a morning person, science questions thrown at me before noon unravel me faster than anything.

For example, the other morning the Jedi approached me with this little inquiry:

“Mom, what does DNA stand for?”

“Who?”

“DNA, Mom. What does it stand for? What IS it?”

“Um, DNA?”

“Yeah. DNA. For real?” (As opposed to what? For NOT real?)

Okay, I won’t lie. I had to Google it. Google, by the way, is my favorite modern day invention. (Besides chicken nuggets and Splenda.)

“DNA stands for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid.”

“What? What’s THAT?”

(Google, Google, Google…) “It is the genetic material of a cell.”

“What is a cell?”

(Oh, man! For the love of Pete… Don’t know that one either. Googling…)

“A cell is the very smallest unit of living matter. All living things including plants and animals are made up of cells. Cells are made of atoms, which are the smallest units of matter. There are many different kinds of cells….” (At this point he is bored and totally not listening to me but I am fascinating myself.)

“Okay, okay. Thanks, Mom. Sheesh.”

SHEESH!? I think it is worth repeating – Young Jedi is eight. Eight! (I’m in for a ride, aren’t I?) For the record, he thought DNA stood for Deadly Nicotine Apple. (Tee hee hee!  I love it when I am smarter….)

If you don’t live in the Washington DC area then you are probably blissfully unaware of the SNOW APPOCALYPSE ARMAGEDDON 2 that is supposedly approaching our area at a rapid pace.

There is a huge blizzard warning in effect.  It is nuts around here.  Apparently, tomorrow’s storm is supposed to be even bigger than this one.

So people are panicking. Schools are closing. Things are being cancelled.  Mayhem, people!

So I decided to do a little Vlog about the madness and keep you up to date on whatever happens. 

Am I the only person in the world who has had their credit score nearly ruined by the public library?    I don’t know why, but I just can’t seem to return library books by their DUE DATE.  I really should just buy the darn books outright.  (I end up paying for them anyway by the time all is said and done.)

I am ashamed to admit this but I have literally been reported to various credit agencies for collections all throughout my life.  I inevitably return/pay just in time to squeak by and salvage what is left of my dignity.  Albeit BARELY. 

My husband is completely flummoxed by the situation.  (Sorry. Had to use the word.  I’ve never been able to before! )  He says there must be some weird cosmic force out there with the sole purpose of preventing  me from reaching my library destination for months or years at a time. 

And he is right. 

I can’t tell you how many times I have had a library book in my car and have driven right by the darn building and forgotten to drop it off.  I’m fairly certain the last book was in my car for at least a four week stretch.  At that point I just ended up bringing the darn book back into the house until the cycle began again. 

But it is not all bad.  Libraries actually LOVE ME.  I fund most of their new release sections with my penalty fees.

Just ask my husband.