by Robin | Dec 12, 2011 | Family, Friends, friendship, Kids, Music, Teens & Tweens
{This post will be most appreciated by people who actually know us…feel free to click away. 🙂 } "Hey–I've got a GREAT idea!" I tell 'em. "After dinner, break into groups and re-write the lyrics to songs you know and...
by Robin | Nov 18, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Life with boys, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
Some of the best parenting advice I can offer is over 2000 years old. It's as relevant today as it was when first recorded, though it wasn't even suggested in the context of parent-child relationship ~ Keep current in your relationships; maintain a...
by Robin | Nov 12, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Family, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
No matter what you do in your life, what you create, what career you have, whether you have a family or kids, or make a lot of money… your greatest creation is always going to be your life’s story. Because it’s like this container that holds all of those other things....
by Robin | Nov 11, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Parenting, Teens & Tweens, Television, Videos, youtube ROCKS!
A few instances during my Parenting Series, I've mentioned others who have influenced and shaped how I parent (Day 2 and Day 22). I forgot to mention Bill Cosby. Seriously. During the mid-80s and early 90s ~ my 20s ~ I watched Heathcliff and Claire...
by Robin | Nov 6, 2011 | 31 Days of Parenting Teens & Tweens, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
Oh, my. I done done it now. If I haven't yet stepped on your toes, I bet the title of this piece alone got your dander up. Or at least raised your curiosity. Surely she doesn't mean what she wrote, you're thinking. But I do. I...
by Robin | Oct 31, 2011 | Animals, Kids, Life with boys, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Teens & Tweens
"There's a snake in my boots." ~ Woody, Toy Story It didn't matter if it was 90 degrees in the shade and a thousand percent humidity, he'd paint on his Wranglers and cram his feet into miniature Tony Lama's. Cowboys don't...