ANNOUNCEMENT: For any Kindle owners who don’t want to miss a second of the Turtle Mom Wedding saga (which began last year with Confessions of a Turtle Mom), you now have the option to subscribe to the About a Wedding blog on Amazon. Unfortunately, you cannot subscribe to blogs with the Kindle app yet, so you non-Kindle folks can Follow [...]
I bow to the Karmic weight of the universe. History: The Fairy Tale Bride was listed at 99 cents for a Backlist Ebooks sale just before Christmas, and when the sale was over, I attempted to put the price back to $2.99. Amazon has (typical) kept it at 99 cents and so has B&N (not [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT: For any Kindle owners who don’t want to miss a second of the Turtle Mom Wedding saga (which began last year with Confessions of a Turtle Mom), you now have the option to subscribe to the About a Wedding blog on Amazon. Unfortunately, you cannot subscribe to blogs with the Kindle app yet, so you [...]
On Sunday, January 1, I unveiled my newest goal: to transform from sweats-enthusiast to sweat-enthusiast (i.e. stop sitting around by the woodstove and start working out to get into shape for the August wedding of my one and only daughter… for new readers, you can catch up on the Confessions of a Turtle Mom wedding [...]
Happy New Year! Can you believe it? I’m actually putting up a new chapter! I know. I’ve been MIA for most of December. The holidays are like that for me. Too much to do, not enough time. And then comes January 1st. A new year, a new set of resolutions. First one: finish up the [...]
I love the Harry Potter books. Love. Love. Love. So much so that I do actually plan to visit Harry Potter World in Orlando one day. My most favorite thing of all that has come from J. K. Rowling’s imagination, though, is not Butterbeer (kudos to the chefs who figured out how to actually make [...]
As a Turtle Mom, I was slow to react to most childhood transgressions. I wanted the punishment to fit the crime, and that required thought. A spill is easy — just clean it up. I didn’t really consider that a crime, just something that happens and you deal with it. Daughter was good with that [...]
Need to catch up? Read Turtle Mom’s Epic Plan to Restore Mommy Karma. When a Turtle Mom travels, she takes her shell with her. Very convenient…for her. I don’t know about real turtles, or other Turtle Moms, but this Turtle Mom does not have a great sense of direction. I can get lost in NYC (with [...]
Coming to the party late? Not sure what the Turtle Mom Confessions are all about? Read Turtle Mom’s Epic Plan to Restore Mommy Karma. I cannot blame my stand against ear-piercing on being a Turtle Mom. It comes from someplace else. The place that rejects a daily application of makeup, or wearing uncomfortable heels. The place [...]
Sleep is a Turtle Mom’s ideal shell time. Nestled deep in the dark, dreaming and recharging for time spent outside the shell. Waking up can be hard for a Turtle Mom. No doubt a Tiger Mom wakes at 4:30, does her kick-boxing, personal grooming routine, cleaning and cooks a full breakfast for her children (who [...]
