We’re all preparing for a great 2009. We’re hopeful, inspired, making plans. We’re organizing. We’re creating budgets. We’re saying good-bye to one year and ushering in another. Which is why it’s the perfect day to say thank you to the gals who established this community as they step forward to new opportunities.
Kathryn, Jenny, and Eve, [...]
We’re opening up SMB to free 125 x 125 graphic advertising for the month of December to promote our reader’s and editor’s businesses. If you have a business you own, run, and can provide a link and a 125 x 125px graphic, we’d like to check it out and include it in our list. We [...]
The Seattle Jingle Bell Run & Walk that is taking place at Westlake Center on December 14th. The Jingle Bell Run benefits the Arthritis Foundation and is a fun, family-friendly event that has quickly become a Seattle Holiday Tradition. Last year, 12,000 people showed their support at Westlake Center, decked out as Santa and his [...]
Mamaspod is going to do another podcast review of Winterfest Bothell. Come join us Friday, December 5th, at 5:30 for Hot Cocoa, Santa, Singing and speak your opinion! more info
If there’s something festive in a neighborhood near you and you’d like to send us your review or invite us to come podcast with you, let [...]
It’s been some time since I wrote an inspiring health post. Oh, fine, it’s been a while since I’ve written ANY post, let alone inspiring. But behold! I’m here to reproduce something I got in the mail today. I mean, really, who am *I* to fain brilliance when The Professionals just emailed me the Best [...]
There are those days the alarm goes off, you hop out of bed, grab your workout gear and workout with total exuberance.
And then there’s every single other day.
My friend in High School used to say, “I had a fight with my pillow and my pillow won.” She wasn’t much for working out first thing in [...]
I recently wrote a post about body image. I wrote it not to attract traffic, to say wonderful things about myself or to beg other people to say nice things about me. I said it because it’s something I literally think about every day of my life. I think about what the scale said that [...]
The thing about having two children is that I’m always sweating. I’d like to attribute this to a change in hormones, the weather, or even the shaggy coat of fur that lines my legs. (come on, yours does, too) But no, I really believe it’s because my children are just. That. Active.
Leaving the house? [...]
Hi there. No no, don’t worry, I’m not here to judge you for not working out this morning or drinking your third latte today. (I see you, I don’t judge :: setting down my third latte today ::) But see, a while back Jenny offered to let me post about a new adventure I [...]
A while back, I got an email from Carrie with a great question: “What moves would you suggest doing during the day with my three year old around?” I replied, “Glad you asked!”
So, here they are, simple exercises you can fit in to your day while making dinner, waiting for your child to potty, and [...]