Center for Courageous Kids Donations are GONE!

Stormi and Roger came by today personally from Kentucky and picked up all the donations for the camp. I was overwhelmed with how nice they were and how truly grateful they were for each and every donation. You don’t realize how every product makes a difference in some way. They told us from gift baskets to the families and children, auctions to raise money, and even the facility, every bit counts. With tough economic times donations are down all around for charities, but it doesn’t have...

July 5th, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

Blogger Trips! PR: Invite these mom bloggers

Seems like lately every time I turn around a new Blogger Retreat trip is hitting my email and there is no way I can take them all…after all, whats a mom blogger without being a mom, right? But I am excited that companies are taking notice and putting together some fabulous information sessions for online bloggers and wanted to help PR out in finding the perfect bloggers for the trip. Our community is full of frugal, fashion, single, family, mom, and specialty bloggers and many of them are looking...

July 4th, 2009 | Feature Bloggers, General | Read More

Pardon my Dust…….

I am working on the site. I havent decided which header, so I am testing them all out! Unfortunately, it takes a bit because you have to change the colors to really see how it all looks. Im not sure about the new layout……how I feel about it. We are going to do some modifications next week to see what it looks like overall, so please have patience with us as we get it straight. ~Trisha

July 3rd, 2009 | General | Read More

Quitting blogging? (video)

Yes, Im still on a vlogging trip. Do you ever think about quitting blogging or atleast quitting the way your blog has become? Are you happy or unhappy with all the PR, trips, reviews, giveaways, page rank, technorati, and “best mom blog” lists to compete with?

July 2nd, 2009 | Vlogs | Read More

Who wore it better? Kim Kardashian or Moi?

Don’t actually answer that. I will cry. And don’t mind my arm there…I was clicking the mouse to take the picture on the webcam and no, I haven’t taken a shower yet today so I look icky. Check out this gorgeous dress I got from Just Stop Staring for the MomDot BlogHer Dinner! In fact, check out all the gorgeous dresses on Just Stop Staring. I LOVE LOVE LOVE retro clothes!! I love that they embrace a woman rather then make her hide her body. This dress is called ‘Ava’...

July 2nd, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

Dont you have a job or something?

My DH has an IM system at work so sometimes we can chat during the day for a few moments. Today an IM pops up. DH: Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to meeeeeeeeeeee! Happy Birthday to me. Me: Moron DH: I never get excited about a birthday, but im excited now. Me: Look, only 60 more years of living with me! DH: Are you going to always be as sexy as the day I married you? Me: No, Im getting sexier with age. DH: Like a fine wine……only gets better with age. Or a...

July 1st, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

Question……..

If you go and pull out three cookies to go with your (healthy) glass of milk and there is only one cookie left in the bag after you pull out three, isn’t it your obligation to eat the last one so its not left behind? ~Trisha

July 1st, 2009 | General | Read More

Look! My wedding dress still fits!

blah blah, this is the text on the minimizer. Without it here, it totally screws up my page. Blah, blah, is this enough? Nope, not enough, blah blah…hey I am enjoying this vlogging stuff. So much easier.

July 1st, 2009 | Vlogs | Read More

R. I. P. M. J.

(<—-yes, its a record…at what point didn’t you realize I’m a loser) I know it will be revisited by every media outlet, blog, website, and newspaper in the country for the next few weeks, but I did want to post as well. I hate celebrity news and politics. Both of those things grate my nerves. Actually, if it falls into “news” at all, I cant stand it. We could have a full on World War going on and I wouldn’t know for weeks because I avoid it like the plague. But...

July 1st, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

O. M. G. Look at this email I just got.

We filed our state taxes about a week before April 15th through the mail. I rarely go through the mail, but since we lived in two states last year and our refund wasn’t spectacular, I didn’t want to pay turbo tax $30 to file it. Recently I realized we hadn’t received a refund (its about $400) and I put it for direct deposit when I sent it in. I started getting panicky that they didn’t receive my taxes. (thoughts of the IRS showing up to pound in my door wanting my 1040 have...

July 1st, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

Our Weekend in video….

Otherwise known as “Boys are Violent at any age”. We went to a birthday party on Sunday, which was a lot of fun (minus the major plastic burns I got going down the slides at warp speed), at an indoor jump castle place. My DH is always in the middle playing along, which is one of the things I love about him, but dang, can the boys dish it out. And its like they don’t care…they beat up on DH, DH beats up on them, and everyone is HAPPY? I’m glad I’m a girl. Check...

July 1st, 2009 | Vlogs | Read More

Wordless Wednesday!

Happy 30th Birthday to my DH today! If you have a picture to send him wishing happy birthday, email to me at trisha(at)momdot(dot)com. Every morning he wakes up before I do and generally wakes charlotte up and goes to shave. This morning he walks in and gives me a kiss and I open my eyes and say “Happy birthday!” and he says “Does this look like the penis of a 30 year old?” as he pulls down his pants. I said “It still looks annoying.” So no matter how old your...

July 1st, 2009 | General, Wordless Wednesday | Read More

The heart attack of my life.

It was 8am. I was laying in bed sleeping (I have an upstairs room facing the backyard) and I am awakened to talking that sounds like my child outside. Surely, not my child because I hadn’t heard her wake up, she hadn’t come in our room, hadn’t turned on the TV downstairs, nothing. I am not a heavy sleeper by any means. Her door opening would have usually triggered me. I listened again. Then I knew I heard her for sure and it was coming from outside. I got up and looked outside...

July 1st, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

My Daughter is conspiring against me

On friday Charlotte and I were out playing chalks. I asked her to draw me a picture of the family- A very innocent request on my part. This is what she drew: Then she proceeded to explain to me who everyone was. Daddy. Charlotte. Mommy. (on a side note, I’m glad I’m the thin one) and THE BABY. Charlotte has now begun a full on assault of wanting a sibling. WTF. I am only 31. Why does everyone think my uterus is going to fall out and die tomorrow if I didn’t get pregnant yesterday. ~Trisha

June 29th, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More

The AP can SUCK IT.

If you want Doubles Bugs response, its here. You know, since they left it out to skew the story. Word of the day: BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, and Ill say it again.

June 29th, 2009 | Questions And Controversy, Vlogs | Read More

Why are people such pussies?

OMG. Did she really use that word. Why, yes, yes I did. Get over it. I know I’m not winning any awards for eloquence around here and we already know Disney isn’t picking me up for family friendly, so lets not get all politically correct now. Having a blog introduces you to all sorts of people. Mad people, happy people, gossips, control freaks, the popular girls, the unpopular girls, the whiners, the leaders, the entrepreneurs, the nobody-likes-me’s. Its what makes the word go round....

June 29th, 2009 | Questions And Controversy | Read More

Sometimes change starts within yourself

Lately I have been feeling a slave to my blog, a slave to my email, and a slave for the next project. While I love to develop ideas, I haven’t felt satisfied by being bogged down with ‘uniques’ and ‘page views’ and hyperventilating when the Google Gods giveth and taketh away page ‘ranks’. And while the few moments my blog carved a niche in technorati made me smile, it inevitably made someone else doubt their own self worth, blog, or site. Isn’t that...

June 25th, 2009 | iTrisha | Read More