I was a teenager in the 80′s when Cabbage Patch Kids first came on the scene. My sister was about 8 and I remember my Mom took me to Zayres (remember those?) and there were at least 200 women in the toy aisle grabbing boxes of the ‘kids – they didn’t care what they got as long as they got one. It was that year’s biggest Christmas gift. My mom still has all of our original ‘Kids at her house {Read More}

It’s officially September! I hope you are all enjoying your long weekend. Today is also the official first day of Marie’s Blog Trip over at Mommy Community. It’s only 10 am here in CST but already more then 50 moms have joined the blog trip and added their blog trip posts to Marie’s Mr Linky. I am looking forward to checking them all out! For those who are visiting from the Blog Trip – welcome here! My name is Crystal {Read More}

A story on MSN earlier this week caught my attention, and I will admit, got me a little upset! The story revolves around a 12 year old student who was suspended from school for having pink hair. The student, who recently lost her father to cancer, is a model student with A grades. Earlier in the summer, with her mother’s permission, she dyed her hair pink in honor of her father. Upon returning to school this fall, she was suspended {Read More}

It’s been a busy news day today, and there were five stories that I wanted to share with you. Let’s start with the more serious stories. A school shooting in Tennessee earlier today claimed the life of a 16 year old student. The incident took place in the school cafeteria and was not a random shooting. Police believe the shooting was a result of a confrontation between two students.  The shooter is currently in custody but no names have been {Read More}

Welcome to the first every Moms In A Blog Carnival! Today, we are honoring youth for International Youth Day. On December 17, 99 the General Assembly of the United Nations endorsed a recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth and declared August 12th International Youth Day. In honor of International Youth Day, we have collected a great selection of posts from our writers and other great blogs around the web covering educations, business, books, parenting, decor {Read More}

If you’re as old as I am and not quite as young as Crystal then you might remember The Banana Splits. Well, starting September 2, 2008 you’ll get to see The Banana Splits on Cartoon Network. For those of you who might need to catch up – The Banana Splits are Fleegle (a dog), Drooper (a lion), Bingo (a gorilla) and Snorky (an elephant). If you don’t want to wait until September you can check out The Banana Splits’ website.  {Read More}

August 12 is International Youth Day, and we thought a Youth Themed Blog Carnival was in order! So – here’s your chance to get some extra traffic and link love! TO PARTICIPATE: 1. Write a post related to teens, or pick on you have written in the past. It can be about parenting a teen, feeding a teen, decorating for a teen, being a teen, teaching a teen, and anything that has to do with teens! 2. Steal the image {Read More}

We’ve got a great page here on the blog where we share some of the awesome stuff that other moms have said about our site, and we’d like to expand it! We’d like to hear what YOU think about our site! Leave your feedback in the comments section of this post, along with your URL and if we use yours we will link back to you for some link love as well! To check out what types of things we’ve {Read More}

A few news stories caught my eye today, and I wanted to share. The first is a sad story that needs our prayers. A fire in a Philadelphia row home claimed 3 families’ homes earlier today (Sunday). A young couple with an infant suffered the worst. The young mother was unable to escape on time, and lost her life to the smoke at the scene. The father was able to climb out onto the roof and hand the baby through {Read More}

Earlier today, Alice -aka the Internet Marketing Sweetie – reached a new milestone as she prepared her 1000th blog post. A well known marketing professional, Alice has been doing business online since 2002 and began blogging in 4 years ago, in July of 2004. Alice has learned many valuable lessons over the years, and has learned them well – developing a successful marketing career by concentrating on helping other businesses reach success. Her business, Internet Marketing Sweetie, provides valuable courses {Read More}