If you’re a parent or you’re new here and came for the giveaway, go ahead and scroll down. My regular readers and I need a moment…
I really dragged my feet on doing this. It’s been less than a week since I unveiled the new shopping blog for women and explained all of the [...]

I’m not usually a zoo person. In fact, if it wasn’t for the kids I would never set foot in a zoo again. I’ve talked about this before but the short version is: my mother ruined zoos for me.
Zoos and Indian Pow Wows. Scarred for life. Thanks, Mom.
ANYway, considering my aversion [...]

Allow me to share with you how a recent letter from an Internet company left me feeling like a horrible mother:
Hi Britt,
As Moms, we all participate in so many groups and activities that it can be hard to keep everything straight. From volunteering as a classroom Mom to coaching your son or daughter’s sports team, [...]

I am a very important, serious blogger.
Because I am a very important, serious type blogger, companies trust me to do very important, serious type reviews for them.
I take this responsibility very… uh.. seriously.  And importantly.  No, wait.  Just seriously.
ANYway, Mom Central – knowing how very important and serious I am – sent me a package [...]

It’s no secret that I’m an idealist.
I want good to triumph over evil. I want people to care and “do the right thing”. I believe in things like “making the world a better place”. If the glass is half full, with just a little more effort we can fill it up!
That’s me. [...]

Whenever I hear the words “go green” I automatically think “major pain in the butt”.
I don’t think of conservation and environmentally friendly as being convenient. I hear the experts and activists say “simple changes” and “small sacrifices” and I know they mean STOP USING DEODORANT AND CARRY YOUR WATER FROM A WELL. ALSO, [...]

Months ago I happened to see a call out on Twitter visitor the movie download for “anyone who has a DS game system and school age kids”. My keen parental instincts told me this was probably a PR person trying to take advantage of my kids.
I promptly responded “yes! me! is there something [...]

You thought I was joking about Sundays, didn’t you? Ha! No! Not even a little bit!
Ahem. ANYway…
As a member of MomCentral, I get a few emails a week with various products and companies that I have the option to review. I don’t participate in all of them because, quite frankly, what the [...]

I’ve been thinking about Sundays lately.
You see, normally I go to Church on Sundays. Where “normally” equals “if you had asked me 10 months ago what I do on Sundays”. When I moved to Florida, one of the first things I did was seek out a Catholic Church close to my home and [...]

One of the “perks” of pretending to be a moderately popular blogger is that you can convince authors and publicists to send you free stuff.
Well, free books anyway. I’m still waiting for someone to send me free shoes.
But books? Books are easy to come by. They’re desperate for any type of “publicity” [...]