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10 Things I Learned This Week (ish), Vol 158 (ish)

January 13, 2016 by Amy, Using Our Words 2 Comments

Hello (hello, hello, hello…)! Is anybody out there (there, there, there…)?! Figured I’d dust off the ol’ blog (and ol’ lessons format) and do a little something for those of you who made a resolution to laugh (or read) more this year. But if your resolution was to stop wasting time online, well, I’m afraid […]

Filed Under: Everyday Lessons, Uncategorized Tagged With: christmas, holiday, lessons, motherhood, music

The 12 Days of Vacation

December 28, 2015 by Amy, Using Our Words Leave a Comment

This holiday season, our family has been graced with a whole lot of laughter, wonderful time with family, an abundance of gifts, and one seasonal song — The 12 Days of Christmas — over and over and over again. The last gem is courtesy of Pink, singer extraordinaire (and, since Christmas, budding guitarist…). If you’re […]

Filed Under: Mom Musings Tagged With: christmas, holiday vacation, humor, music, parenting, song

The Dance of Life

January 12, 2015 by Amy, Using Our Words 6 Comments

In high school, I was a dancer. I’m afraid I wasn’t born with much natural talent or flexibility, but I knew enough to learn the choreography and perform on stage, year after year, in fabulously cringe-worthy costumes.

Filed Under: featured, Mom Musings Tagged With: ballet, busy mom, challenges, contemporary dance, contemporary life, dance, dancing, music

The BlogHer ’14 Closing Party Was Tr-, Tr-, Tricky

July 29, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 9 Comments

You want to know what was crazy intense? BlogHer ’14. Not in the session jumping, swag hoarding, looking down so nobody has a clue I don’t know what I’m doing, frantically searching for familiar faces kind of way it has been in the past. No, I kind of nailed all those things this year—meaning I […]

Filed Under: featured, Mom Musings Tagged With: blogging, BlogHer, BlogHer '14, conference, dancing, music, Rev Run

School’s Out for Summer

July 22, 2014 by Amy, Using Our Words 8 Comments

The other day I ran into a friend at my office (aka Starbucks). He asked what my kids were up to this summer and the subject of workbooks came up. I confessed, as I’m doing to each and every one of you here, that I don’t make my kids do one single bit of school […]

Filed Under: Common Sense Media, featured, Tips & Ideas Tagged With: apps, books, Common Sense Media, education, learning, music, reading, school, science, summer

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