No Show – Happy 4th of July!

July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Summer and it’s fun activities are in full bloom this week! I’ve been swamped with company popping in for visits, family business and the kiddos for the past week and now the 4th of July weekend is upon us!

Many of you will be taking 3 and 4 day weekends to celebrate. Earlier this week, our friendly neighbor to the north, Canada, celebrated their own Canada Day. So, I’ve decided to give Moms Love Shopping podcast the week off to celebrate, too.

Don’t worry, the podcast WILL be back! You’ll be too busy racking up on holiday sales, shooting fireworks and grilling burgers to listen this week anyway. Then you’ll spend all week recovering and playing catch up (or hiding those new shoes) to miss me.

If you do happen to get some free time and need some shopping therapy, rent or buy Confessions of a Shopaholic to get your shopping buzz while you relax. Or, if you haven’t listened to last week’s show, Shopaholic Confessions – Show #54, (shame on you!) get caught up and find out who the true shopaholic in MY family is. I was surprised!

I’ll talk to you next week. Have a wonderful holiday weekend and be safe.
‘chele

P.S.
Don’t forget to have fun shopping!

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CBC with Jendi of Profitable Mommy Blogging

June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’ve recently been invited to participate in a cross blog conversation (CBC) with Jendi at Profitable Mommy Blogging.

If you’ve never heard of a cross blog conversation, it’s when two bloggers correspond with each other, each from their own blog. I’m excited about the opportunity to ask Jendi some of my burning questions and I will attempt to dazzle her with my own answers!

Jendi began our conversation by asking the following questions:

“How much time do you spend online in an average day? Do you spend more time online shopping or doing blog related things?”

First of all, that’s a heck of a loaded question!

I probably spend more time online than a lot of moms because I also work a full time business from home. If it weren’t for that factor, and I truly spent all that time shopping online, I’d need to check myself into the nearest Shopaholics Anonymous, ASAP! But, I digress… to be completely honest, I’d say I spend an average of 8 – 10 hours online daily. Yikes!

The second question is a bit tougher to answer. It’s virtually impossible to NOT shop online these days… or at least ‘window shop’ online. I am constantly distracted by lovely things when online while I’m working, blogging, surfing or just catching up on my friend’s blogs.

For instance, just this morning, I responded to a comment on my personal blog and clicked on over to my friend Nell’s blog to see what she’s been up to lately while I drank my coffee and waited for the dryer to catch up with the washing machine. Nell distracted me with a post about the lack of adorable baby boy fashion and some great sites she found with drool-worthy items. I had to check it out, because I’ve been grumbling forever about the tiny selection of boy’s clothing to myself and publicly here at Moms Love Shopping, as well. (Um, I don’t even have baby boys anymore!)

I would like to spend more time productively blogging, but I’ll need to learn to control my internet window shopping to do it.

Here are my questions for Jendi:

What was your interest in becoming a blogging intern at Profitable Mommy Blogging? I noticed that you were already blogging on your own blog for two years before accepting the position.
What are the distractions that keep you from spending as much time as you’d like blogging and how do you avoid them?

You can find her answers at Jendi’s Profitable Mommy Blogging Column.

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RIP: Michael Jackson & His Music

June 28, 2009 | 1 Comment

I can remember listening to Michael Jackson’s music in junior high and high school – - and how we all wondered about that white glove! In high school, I can remember slumber parties where we would wait and wait until MTV played Thriller. It wasn’t like today when we can download a video in 30 seconds any time we want — and I think it made the music and the video just a bit more special.

I confess that I haven’t thought much about Michael Jackson in the years since high school — and a quick look at my music collection showed that I don’t even own any of his music. I headed over to Amazon this morning to check out what was available for Michael Jackson and was pretty amazed to see that there 446 songs of his available for download! I read that many major retailers (even online)sold out of his music overnight — but downloads are always available.

I didn’t buy Thriller this morning, but I did buy The Way You Make Me Feel and Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.

What are your favorite Michael Jackson songs?

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TMT: Flexible Grocery Shopping

May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

Tell Me Thursday for: Flexible Grocery Shopping

Local shopping mom Erica Mueller and I recently met for a test drive in a Ford Flex and decided to test out it’s ability to hold groceries for two households. It was a blast!

Kroger Shopping With Erica Mueller It’s a little strange doing your grocery shopping with another mom, especially when it’s on the spur of the moment. I had no coupons, no list and I was HUNGRY! There were a few impulse items in my cart, but I didn’t feel quite so badly when I saw Erica place a bag of green cotton candy in her cart.

One of the most obvious things about our shopping trip was that even though we were also picking up things our family needed anyway (milk, bread, eggs)… my cart was filling up much faster than hers! She was sweet enough to acknowledge that I had two school age boys to feed at the moment and she only has a husband and toddler to make me feel better.

Ford Flex Shopping Erica also just HAD to outshine me again when she pulled out her reusable shopping bags. Oh the shame! I’m forced to admit temporary Ford Flex brain (Dear Ford, can you hear me?) possessed me.

Having a mix of reusable bags and plastic bags worked out great in the end though, because we took our groceries out to the Flex and it was easy to pile everything in and not worry about mixing things up. I’m so happy to report that Erica didn’t need to hunt me down to get her cotton candy back!

By the way, the Ford Flex had plenty of room for all our groceries, dry cleaning, a toddler in a car seat, two adult passengers… and we could have filled it up with more if we had more money to spend (OK, so that hint wasn’t exactly very subtle)!

You can check out more photos from our test drive and shopping spree on Flickr:
Chele’s Ford Flex Flickr Photos
Erica’s Ford Flex Flickr Photos

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