How Many Times a Day Do You Say Yes?
It’s funny how little lessons and aha moments can be wrapped in the oddest things. As part of my marketing for one of my sites I’ve decided to use video. I’ve been meaning to do this for well, ever. I finally decided to get down to it and just do it. I’ve done a few “inspirational” type videos before, and wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to create a marketing video, and for a site filled with easy chicken recipes no less. It occured to me yesterday afternoon I could do it very much like the inspirational videos and just take pictures through the process of creating the meal. I found a great recipe to work with and then realized I didn’t have one of the ingredients. A quick trip to the store here is a 15...
Rethinking Toddler Craft Time
As a recovering “all or nothing” thinker I often times need to stop and get some perspective on my ideas/beliefs about things, just to make sure I’m not having a relapse! Yesterday this came up with my expectations of “craft time” with Hanna. She’s 2 1/2 and I guess in my never ending quest to be the “perfect” mother, I try to plan these awesome things we can do. Well yesterday I was about out of ideas and patience, so I sent out an SOS tweet for ways to entertain her. I received quite a few replies (thanks @evelynsaenz @inertiarus @sassyword @partyboutique and of course @steveweber with his spongebob suggestion!) I was surprised that many of them involved bowls of stuff and mixing. Quite frankly, that didn’t...
Teaching Toddlers Colors
Now that Christmas is over, and things are getting back to normal, I actually have time to get back to work! Yay, it feels good. Work is of course interrupted by the wee one frequently. I’ve been trying to think of something a little more “structured” but it’s hard since I don’t do structured well to work on different things with her on a regular basis. We have been working on colors for a while. She gets them sometimes and sometimes not so much. I’m sure if we did something a little more consistently she would know them all by heart, but alas, we don’t. I did find this very cool article today, that I thought was something we could incorporate into our color learning. Instead of making the blocks I was thinking we...
This WAHM Gets Organized ~ Well at Least a Little
As an affiliate marketer and niche blogger I find myself having to remember a MILLION differnet urls, usernames and passwords. Which I’m not very good at. I keep the sites I go to a lot in my favorites bar in Firefox, but it’s a pretty small space for a busy blogger. The usernames and passwords are usually there when I get there, but when they aren’t I’m well . . . screwed. I can’t even tell you right now, off the top of my head what the username and password is for my flagship internet marketing blog. I thought making usernames that were similar would be smart, but it’s made the process much more difficult. So I started writing things down on scraps of paper. Yeah whatever, that doesn’t work with a 2 year old in...
Making Magic In the Middle Cookies
I’m not much of a baker, but it is the holidays, and these cookies looked just too good to pass up. So Hanna and I decided to tackle this delicious baking project. She and I have never really baked together before. She loves to cook, so she was all about it. She helped pour the dry ingredients into the mixing bowl,and roll the “magic middles”. Then she was all about rolling the big chocolate balls in sugar. I didn’t realize how fun it would be to bake with the little monkey. She is very “me do it”, but she was able to be patient and help with the parts that were good for little fingers. All in all we had a blast. The last batch is baking in the oven, and I can’t wait to sink my teeth into them. I found the recipe for...
Welcome to My Wahm Life!
Welcome to my wahm life. I'm Jackie Lee... a full time work at home mom. My word for the year is CONNECTION! And that's my plan for this site... get to know you, and let you get to know me! Feel free to connect with me through the comments, my contact page, or on Facebook! I look forward to getting to know you better! I’m Rockin’ it!
