Cupcakes, Sprinkles and One Cool Girl
This week it wasn't Cupcake Sunday; instead, it was Cupcake Wednesday. She chose the recipe, studied it, assembled her ingredients and got to work. She chose the mini size instead of the regular...
View ArticleDecember 1 Blog Hop Participant List –FINAL
11/30 UPDATE: LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED TO MY EMAIL AND IS FINAL BELOW. THANKS EVERYONE! I am filling in for Margie to coordinate the December 1st Blog Hop. Safe travels,...
View ArticleAround Kansas City: Yelp Shop Local and The Children’s Place
I'm lucky to be involved with a local group of Kansas City bloggers who are bright, dynamic and active in the community. Some I've met in person; others only through a computer screen on a social...
View ArticleThis Is Mommy
I often tell clients that their prospect's perception of them is their reality. Meaning that, at least in the business world, how people see you matters more than how you think they see you. Same...
View ArticleAround Kansas City: Rock the Red Kettle
I don't know about you, but I am forever looking for family friendly--but still fun--activities to do with my kiddos. They're getting to that age; the age where some things just aren't fun or cool...
View ArticleDecember 2012 One Little Word Bloghop
It's Blog Hop time again...how the heck did THAT happen? By now I'm sure you're aware of why we do what we do….but if you're not, you can catch up with my own One Little Word posts here. I'm the first...
View ArticleCelebrating Me This Holiday Season–a #Reverb12 Prompt
"What was your favorite Christmas gift when you were little?" He's asking me all sorts of questions these days; my favorite movie, what ice cream I like, what I liked to study--and what I hated...
View ArticleLessons Learned
Lesson: We may have started this year with the best of intentions, but plans may have gone awry. What lesson really jumped out at you this year? How can you cultivate that lesson going forward?...
View ArticleOne Step Forward, A Few Steps Back
Combining two prompts for today. The first, from Meredith: Letting Go: What do you need to let go of to cultivate your best life in 2013? and the second, from Kat: What will you take with you? If...
View ArticleOn Chocolate Covered Cherries, Cookie Swaps and Crying Jags
Today's #Cultivate12 Prompt from Meredith: Foodie Friday -- Cultivate Style: Food nourishes us. Some foods give us more enjoyment than others. Some foods leave us feeling less than ourselves. What...
View ArticleMy Year In Books
Reverb 9: What was the best book you read in 2012, and why? (And by "Why?" I mean: Why did you read it? And why was it your favourite? Although these answers could be one and the same...!) If you only...
View ArticlePictures of Me
Reverb 13: Please post your favourite picture of yourself from 2012, self-portrait or otherwise! I've looked through every last one. Every picture from 2012; the good, the bad, the ugly and the...
View ArticleWhen Best is Worst and Worst is Best
So here's the thing; sometimes what we think is best actually turns out to be worst. I was cleaning out my filing cabinet a couple of weeks ago. I'm a shameless packrat and I. Keep. Everything. For...
View ArticleOn Innocence and Anything But
I can't. I've spent the better part of the day consumed by the television reports of the senseless violence that happened in one of the last places in our world we had considered--up until this...
View ArticleHave Appetite, Will Travel: My Year in Food
#Reverb12, Day 15: What tingled your tastebuds? My taste buds traveled in 2012. In DC I drooled over fried chicken and waffles, sweet and crunchy and familiar and unique. I passed on the deep fried...
View ArticleEveryday Inspiration
#reverb 12, Day 16: Who inspired you? I could talk about the 'famous' people I find inspirational. That would be easy. But today the words seem empty and unimportant, considering all that's happened...
View ArticleNo Words, Just Love
#reverb12 Day 18: 1000 Words: There’s the old saying that a photo is worth 1,000 words. Give us a photo with that impact that sums up some significant event of your 2012, or give us 1000 words about a...
View ArticleGiving, Receiving and the In Between
I’m a terrible shopper. I get all excited to go browse favorite stores, usually don’t have much of a problem finding a few things I’d like to buy, but almost always end up talking myself out of...
View ArticleFinal OLW Blog Hop of 2012
I'm multi-tasking today. I've loved reflecting on my year with the help of #reverb12, and the December 29 prompt from Kat just happened to coincide with my One Little Word plans. Big love to Kat and...
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