Blog spam. I log in, I see I have comments, I click on the comments… and there it is… blog spam. I’m not sure what the suitable punishment is for people who send blog spam, but it’s got to be worse than just deleting their messages. Any good ideas?

Weighing is just frustrating me, so I need to do that less often. Our scale is crazy, anyway, so perhaps I’ll just weigh twice a week when I go to the gym.
Today’s food
breakfast: apple cinnamon oatmeal, 1/2 cup of milk (I probably should have added some nuts or something with more protein to [...]

Well, no weight loss yet, but that doesn’t really surprise me. After all, I’m really working on exercising, so my trainer has warned me that the initial change may not come on the scale. I do, however, have a pair of pants picked out to use as a measure of progress. I’m [...]

Okay, so I’m trying to lose weight and get in better shape. So, I was thinking if I had to write down what I was eating and what exercise I had done where anyone in the world could read it, that might be a level of accountability that I could use. So, look [...]

I haven’t been writing much on any of my blogs right now because I’m busy putting up a brand new site. It’s a wiki on homeschooling. A wiki, in case you don’t know, is a community based website. Basically, that means that anyone can edit it and add content. The new [...]

Over the years, you’d think that you’d learn to appreciate a lot of simple things. But I really had to think on this one. Nothing came to mind instantly.
But then I thought about one of the recent changes we’ve made in our house– we bought a second car. It has been [...]

I think that getting out is key when you’re a stay at home Mom, doubly so when you homeschool, perhaps triply so if you also work at home. So may women make the mistake of thinking that they can’t find the time. But then ultimately they burn out and have to find the [...]

I’ve been posting a lot today on my Natural Family News blog. Ironically, today I am equally annoyed with Wal-Mart and Horizon. Why is this ironic? Well, I’m always annoyed with Wal-Mart. But Horizon? I thought they were one of the good guys. Turns out, maybe not so much. [...]

There is a recent trend towards birth control methods that eliminate your period. Initially, this was done as a way to avoid having a period for big events, such as weddings, honeymoons, etc. Now, you don’t need a reason. Products, like Seasonale, allow women to only have a period four times a [...]

For many Moms who work at home, the summer provides a new obstacle– what to do with the kids? School’s out, and they’re home. How do you handle the additional distraction.
In the Manty household, school is in session pretty much every day, and Mom Manty is the teacer, so the only difference [...]

I’m trying something new here– participating in a blog carnival. There’s a Work At Home Mom blog that posts a question of the week. This week’s question is “How do you stay fit mentally and physically?” So, here’s my answer.
I have five children. When they’re not draining my brain power [...]

Another 60-something is expecting a baby and, no, it’s not Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart. Patricia Rashbrook, a 63 year old child psychologist, is seven months pregnant.
I wonder what makes 60 year old women decide that it’s a good time to have a baby. Is it an attempt to regain [...]

We all know that gas prices are ridiculous right now. And we know that not buying gas for a day, boycotting certain suppliers, etc. won’t really work. But there is a way to greatly decrease gas use immediately.
Many companies have telecommuting policies, and many employees could telecommute, but for whatever reason, [...]

My 7 year old just told me that he did his best stacking the silverware, and that his best was the best he could do. I was right there with him, thinking “That’s right my best is the best I can do”. Then he quantified it with “Well, it’s the best I can [...]

Today on Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Kids there was an interesting modern take on the story of The Ant and the Grasshopper. For those of you not familiar with the classic Ant and the Grasshopper story, here is the original:
The Ant and the Grasshopper
In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping [...]

There’s an excellent article on homeschool marketplace about the different methods of homeschooling. It’s part of their series on choosing homeschooling materials. We definitely fall into the eclectic homeschooling category. If it’s a good teaching curriculum, process, method, idea, I want to try to use it. Sometimes I find that something [...]

I didn’t really go anywhere. But my blog did. I don’t know exactly what happened to it, but it crashed. Fortunately, my husband was able to fix it.
Whenever I recommend blogging to people and talk about how easy it is, I always neglect to mention that it might not be [...]

I’ve decided that I could really easily be a true media hound. I love it when people write about me– or even when something I write about myself gets prominently displayed. Like today, an article that I submitted about my blogging experiences is being featured on Problogger. Problogger is a website [...]

I thought this was really funny. After dismal ratings last year, the Miss America pageant has chosen to go reality. Reality television and beauty pageant… aren’t those oxymorons? Do you think we’ll get to see the contestants without makeup and without their hair done? But it is a good idea [...]

Rats. One of the last bastions of sanity in this country has fallen. Perhaps you didn’t even know that it existed. But most of Indiana has never followed Daylight savings time, choosing instead to remain on Eastern Standard Time for the entire year. For the first time this year, they will [...]