Six years ago today, I crawled out of bed, loaded up my car for the local Fair Parade, with a polar bear costume in tow, and completed the hottest stint of my marketing career. I dressed up as a polar bear and walked the entire parade route, handing out balloons to little kids while my colleagues talked to their parents
Fall is here, and that means campfires and backyard campouts at our home. Campfires mean roasted marshmallows, and roasted marshmallows mean S’mores. Seven weeks ago I made a decision to go on a much needed sugar detox and diet. I’d put on 27 pounds in two years from poor eating choices and a lack of exercise. So the first campfire
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and I am starting to believe it. But maybe not for the reasons you’d expect. When my daughter was born three and a half years ago, I struggled to find the balance between being a new mom and being a working mom. Like many new moms, I suffered from
Most entrepreneurs are in business to make a profit, but they’re throwing thousands of dollars away each year in wasted marketing spend … and they don’t even realize it. There are three ways, and only three ways, to create more profit in a business. You can add more customers. You can get more customers to buy from you. You can
Attending the fair is an annual tradition at our house. Since my daughter was born, we’ve taken her to our local Four States Fair. Yesterday marked the fourth year she has made the pilgrimage, and as I watched her shine throughout the excitement, I pondered how much we learn about life at an early age. Below are four lessons I
Labels suck! I can remember working for a man who once labeled me as a certain type of person, and for the entire time I worked for him, he never let me out of that box. The label, untrue or not, stuck. I would come home frustrated because no matter how much I changed over the tenure of our working
Over the course of my career, I have fallen into management roles simply because I was the first one hired in a start-up type business that rapidly grew. When we needed a second or third person on my team, I was suddenly a manager. This saw me at an early age (26) sitting around management tables, planning business expansion and
Whenever we tell people we paid $3500 for our family of three to take an 7 night Disney Merrytime Cruise, we are met with the DEER IN HEADLIGHTS look of shock, followed by four words: You paid how much? My husband’s coworker paid less than $900 for his family of two to take a cruise on a non-Disney ship for
My husband surprised my daughter and me by putting up our tent in the front yard last night. For about two months now, she has been begging to sleep outside. But it has either been too hot or raining (mostly the later). Her first outside camping experience came Easter weekend this year. We put up the tent so she and
As we sat down to plan our first true family vacation with a toddler earlier this year, we debated if we should head to the beach or head to Disney World. The last time we’d taken our kiddo to a Disney park, she was two months old. I spent most of the time nursing her throughout the park, listening to
