Catching you up on our birthday celebrations and a recommendation to RUN (not walk) to the theaters to see Looper.
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Super Looper Weekend
by Jenners • 10/01/2012 • BB/The Little One, Lessons Learned, Life, Randomosity • 79 Comments
Lessons From The Lemonade Stand
by Jenners • 06/29/2012 • BB/The Little One, Lessons Learned • 47 Comments
Lessons learned while supervising a kid-run lemonade stand.
Read more →Writer’s Workshop: Hobbies I’ve Tried (And Quit)
by Jenners • 03/01/2012 • Confessions, Lessons Learned, Writers Workshop • 52 Comments
Writer's Workshop post on the many hobbies I've tried and quit.
Read more →My 44th Birthday Giveaway Extravaganza
by Jenners • 09/26/2011 • Giveaway, Lessons Learned, Lists, My Take On..., Silliness • 147 Comments
Someone on this blog is turning 44 today and giving away some stuff.
Read more →Yes Day: A Cautionary Tale
by Jenners • 04/20/2011 • BB/The Little One, Confessions, Lessons Learned, Mr. Jenners • 94 Comments
An epic tale of Yes Day, an event that you want to avoid having in your own home.
Read more →Writer’s Workshop: An Ill-Advised Canoe Trip
by Jenners • 08/11/2010 • Lessons Learned, My Childhood, Travels, Writers Workshop • 29 Comments
For Writer's Workshop, I'm remembering an ill-advised canoe trip I once took. It was bad. Very bad.
Read more →Summertime Meme: Why Do We Lose Our Sense of Possibility?
by Jenners • 06/11/2010 • BB/The Little One, Lessons Learned • 25 Comments
A rare contemplative essay about when did we lose our sense of possibility.
Read more →Gift Giving: What Type Are You?
by Jenners • 12/15/2009 • Lessons Learned • 0 Comments
I wrote a version of this post last year when I had almost no readers. Now that my blog is immensely popular and read the world over (in my dreams), I thought I’d repackage it and include a poll to see which type of gift giver is the most prevalent. In my experience, gift...
Read more →1 Year Blogiversary: Part 3 — Blogging Brightly Leads To Burnout
by Jenners • 11/05/2009 • Blogging, Lessons Learned • 34 Comments
To celebrate this blog’s one year blogiversary today, I’ve been writing a history of my blog broken up into several posts.Today I present the final installment.Blogging Brightly Leads To Burnout AKA If You Fly Too Close to the Sun Wearing Wax Wings, Your Wings Will Melt and You’ll Fall To Earth (Or I Start...
Read more →1 Year Blogiversary: Part 2 — Comments Are Like Crack
by Jenners • 11/04/2009 • Blogging, Lessons Learned • 36 Comments
To celebrate this blog’s one year blogiversary on Thursday, I’m writing a history of my blog broken up into several posts. This is the second installment.Comments Are Like Crack AKA when my self-esteem-rose-and-fell-based-on-the-number-of-comments-my-blog-had-and-I-whored-my-blog-shamelessly-on-meme-after-meme As any blogger knows, getting your first comments from strangers is a total rush and you immediately want more, more, more....
Read more →1 Year Blogiversary: Part 1 — A Bumbling Beginning
by Jenners • 11/03/2009 • Blogging, Lessons Learned • 32 Comments
Thursday, November 5th, marks the one year anniversary of this blog. A momentous occasion. I’m surprised President Obama (whose cabinet I “chose” in my second blog post) didn’t make it a national holiday. To celebrate, I thought I would do two things. First, I’m writing a history of My Year In Blogging and, like...
Read more →The Most Frightening Halloween Craft EVER!
by Jenners • 10/28/2009 • Lessons Learned, Writers Workshop • 28 Comments
Thursday = Mama Kat’s Writer’s WorkshopParticipate, read, comment! This week, I misread the prompts and had it in my head that there was one about the most frightening Halloween craft you ever did. Well, looking at the prompts again, I realized that there wasn’t really a prompt about this but there were two prompts...
Read more →Playground Do’s and Don’ts
by Jenners • 10/21/2009 • Lessons Learned, Writers Workshop • 36 Comments
Thursday = Mama Kat’s Writer’s WorkshopParticipate, read, comment! This week, I decided to go with Prompt 1: create a list of playground do’s and don’ts. I’m writing a list from the point of view of a mother and a child. Mother Playground Do’s and Don’ts DO wear a shlubby outfit (sweats, Crocs, t-shirt), no...
Read more →Dispatches from the Land of Grief
by Jenners • 09/05/2009 • Lessons Learned • 38 Comments
First of all, I want to thank everyone for their lovely and supportive comments following the death of my dad. Your comments really helped me and I felt so supported. Thank you so much!!! I just want to let you know that the memorial service for my dad was beautiful and very healing. It...
Read more →There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute … And I Gave Birth To One
by Jenners • 08/03/2009 • BB/The Little One, Lessons Learned • 31 Comments
So the Little One has recently started watching television commercials. The results have been both hilarious and a little alarming. He’s pretty much wanted everything he’s seen — including Progressive Car Insurance and Magic Johnson to live with us (even though Magic really only wanted us to get some stuff from Rent-A-Center). So in...
Read more →Me + Birds = Government Intervention … A Cautionary Tale
by Jenners • 07/28/2009 • Lessons Learned, Life • 31 Comments
First Of All, Why Are You Telling Us This? So the other day, Blueviolet at A Nut In A Nutshell had a post about how she was cornered in the store by a crazy bird lady who talked her ear off for 40 minutes about how amazing birds are. In my comment, I told...
Read more →Game 6: Commencement Speech
by Jenners • 06/19/2009 • Fun and Games, Lessons Learned • 28 Comments
Welcome to Game 6 of Fun and Games with Jenners! This time out, we’re writing commencement speeches. Tonight was the Little One’s graduation from Pre-Kindergarten. (Yes…they have graduations for that!) It was really sweet and cute — lots of songs and saying what they want to be when they grow-up. For the record, the...
Read more →Your Guide to Carbonated Beverages Around The Globe
by Jenners • 06/05/2009 • Lessons Learned • 32 Comments
Last week, I asked you what you called carbonated beverages like Coke and Pepsi. As usual, my brilliant and (as it turns out) geographically diverse readership came through with tons of answers (if you define “a ton” as “45 comments”). Armed with this data and a brain that functions like a supercomputer (if you...
Read more →Things Learned On A Caribbean Cruise
by Jenners • 01/24/2009 • Lessons Learned, Travels • 28 Comments
Our Home Away From Home for the Past Week I’m back! And although I have a mountain of laundry over four feet high that is stinking up the family room, I’m choosing to write a blog post rather than do the laundry. (I mean, who wouldn’t? Plus I’m out of laundry detergent.) We had...
Read more →10 Things I Learned Over the Holidays
by Jenners • 12/30/2008 • Blog Design, Blogging Tips, Lessons Learned • 20 Comments
1. I am completely lame. My favorite Christmas gift was a Bissell Steam Mop. I realize this is incredibly lame and possibly even pathetic. But I HATE mopping and this thing is fantastic! Not only does it use plain old water (eliminating the need for expensive chemicals), it is also quiet and even soothing...
Read more →Advice from a Lazy Housekeeper
by Jenners • 12/01/2008 • Lessons Learned • 16 Comments
Some advice from a very lazy housekeeper. (That would be me.)
Read more →Freaky Cool Christmas Light Pictures
by Jenners • 11/29/2008 • Cool Photos, Lessons Learned • 21 Comments
Want to see some cool Christmas photos? Taking advantage of slow shutter speeds on your camera means fun for all ... and freaky photos to wow your friends and family.
Read more →How To Get An Expensive Christmas Present
by Jenners • 11/24/2008 • Lessons Learned • 13 Comments
Want an expensive Christmas present? Not sure how to get it? Here are two approaches you can try ... tested by Mr. Jenners and myself.
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