Tough Cookie Mommy | August 31, 2011
Many of you might remember that I had some extensive work done in my house last year. We had the bathroom completely gutted out and rebuilt, created a laundry room, had the floors done, painted, etc. For exactly three months, my entire house was a complete mess and the contractor that we hired [...]
Category: Family, Life Lessons, Relationships |
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Tags: Construction, Contractor, Home Repair, Renovations
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 30, 2011
If you have sons, you know how much they love to play sports and horse around with other boys. They can be very hard on all of their clothes, especially their pants. I’ve found that denim jeans are very durable and can usually withstand all of the punishment that active boys can shell [...]
Category: Reviews |
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Tags: Boys, Denizen, Jeans, Levi's, Review
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 29, 2011
The time has come for us to network and get to know one another through Monday Mingle! This is our chance to meet and connect with other bloggers. It is great to have a the power back on after Hurricane Irene. Thankfully, everyone here is okay and my thoughts and prayers go out [...]
Category: Monday Mingle |
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Tags: Blog Hop, Blogging, Monday Mingle #39, Networking
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 26, 2011
As I’m sure many of you already know, Hurricane Irene is scheduled to wreak havoc throughout the Eastern Seaboard all the way from North Carolina to New England this weekend. Since we live in New York City, it definitely looks like we will not be dodging this bullet. Even as I am writing [...]
Category: Dogs, Emergency Preparation, Family, Life Lessons |
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Tags: Emergency, Hurricane Irene, Natural Disaster, Preparation, Supplies, Weather, Wind
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 23, 2011
Many of you who are on Twitter have probably seen a lot of tweets from others with the #Triberr hashtag or referring to Triberr. It is the latest craze taking over Twitter and some people are very happy about it while others don’t seem to be so happy. Since I do participate in Triberr [...]
Category: Blogging, Brand, Twitter |
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Tags: Audience, Networking, Reach, Tribe, Triberr, Tweets, Twitter
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 22, 2011
If your family is anything like my family, mornings can be a very hectic time and it can be a real struggle making sure that we all don’t just run out of the house to work and school without eating something wholesome for breakfast. Most weekdays, there just isn’t time to cook breakfast [...]
Category: Giveaways, Reviews |
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Tags: Cereal Treat Bars, General Mills, Giveaway, Golden Grahams, Lucky Charms, MyBlogSpark, Review
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 21, 2011
The time has come for us to network and get to know one another through Monday Mingle! This is our chance to meet and connect with other bloggers. It is great to have a moment to say “hello” to all of you!” This blog hop continues to be for everyone with NO RULES. [...]
Category: Monday Mingle |
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Tags: Blog Hop, Blogging, Monday Mingle #38, Networking
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 20, 2011
I was just having a conversation with my brother yesterday about how there are certain things that boys have to learn when they are growing up about being men and about defending themselves. It was interesting to see how our points of view differed on certain points because of our gender differences [...]
Category: Family, Life Lessons, Parenting, Relationships, Society |
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Tags: Bullying, Gender, Parenting, Self-Defense, Society, Sons
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 18, 2011
Anytime that I can recommend a great product to you guys and teach my sons a lesson about proper personal hygiene, I jump at the opportunity. That is why I was so excited to be given the chance to review the SoapTime® System. It opened the door for me to discuss and model [...]
Category: Giveaways, Reviews |
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Tags: Hygiene, Mom Select, Soap, SoapTime System, Washing Hands
Tough Cookie Mommy | August 17, 2011
Those of you who are regular readers of this blog know that I do not have the best relationship with my Mother In Law. Actually, to say that we have a bad relationship is an understatement, the woman hates me. To fully understand the history between us, you would have to perform a search of this [...]
Category: Family, Life Lessons, Marriage, Relationships |
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Tags: Facebook, Family, In-Laws, Mother in Law, Relationships, Religion