Today my son Caleb is celebrating his first double digit birthday. Caleb is one of those special humans who is such a joy to be around. His mellow, fun loving and charming personality has made him the favorite of all of his sisters and many others girls county wide. It also doesn’t hurt that he has his Daddy’s brilliant baby …
Does Your Toddler Need An Exorcist?
Each time I give birth to a sweet, tiny little baby I hold my bundle of joy in my arms completely repressing the knowledge that there will come a point where that same child, for at least a while, will be completely possessed by demons. The world refers to this unspeakable horror as “The Toddler Years.” Those of you who …
Man-Day Post: Alexa Toolbar, Yea or Nay?
I hate toolbars. As a tech professional who gets called in to fix ailing computers the first thing I often notice is that the offender has so many toolbars on their browser that they can barely see any content. And, nobody, not anyone anywhere, has purposely set Ask.com as their default homepage. Not even the guys who work there. Just …
Airing My Dirty Laundry: Mommy Reality Challenge #5
About a year and a half ago we moved into a new house and miracle of miracles this house that was a 2 story had the laundry room on the upper floor! This is beyond awesome since I do at least 2 loads of laundry every stinking day. So here are my beloved beauties, the items and space I would …
Airing Your Dirty Laundry: Mommy Reality Challenge #5
Moms, you have responded to our call to action with pictures of dirty pots and pans piled high in kitchen sinks, filthy cars, messy baby faces, and mixed up meals! You have given us a glimpse into your lives and into your homes, making us proud and inspiring us to continue this real mom movement to bring an end to …
Jen Tries A New Pinterest Project For Your Tootsies
It’s summer and all of the swimming, water play, and sandal wearing activities are making my feet look bad. Hobbit with a hangnail bad. My heels are cracked and peeling. No scrubbing, loofah, or cream is working at this point. I need to find a beauty fix or else I am going to have to seriously consider Birkenstocks with socks …
Time For A Giveaway Palooza!
When I started my little blog I really believed it would end up being a conversation with me myself and I, peppered with an occasional comment from my Mom and sister. Never in a million years did I imagine that people would actually read my blog and miracle of miracles comment and then come back! I cannot believe in just …
Jen Takes Over Man-day!
Since it’s Father’s Day I am gifting Jensguy a break from posting and taking over his normal Man-day duties. Interestingly when queried what he would like for Father’s day he said a nap. What?? No fancy elaborate dinner at least?? He again said no. I countered with the fact that I have about 1 zillion recipes pinned just for this …
My Mommy Reality: Time To Come Clean About My Kitchen Sink
Since becoming a mother there have been several things I have had to realize I have no control over. This is a hard cold truth for an organizational over achiever like myself. For example, I learned early on that one does not ever really control a toddler, you think you do, but they are just toying you into complacency. I …
What’s Really In Your Kitchen Sink? Mommy Reality Challenge #4
The Mommy Reality Team Carolyn of A Lavender Life *Jen of JENerally Informed * Celeste of Leapfrog and Lipgloss We thoroughly enjoyed perusing the hash-tagged #mommyreality “Moment of Trouble” photos and posts of your teeny tiny troublemakers this week! We were thoroughly tickled by the teasing, tears, and tantrums (okay, we’ll knock it off with the “t’s). Thank you for …
Host Your Own Old Fashioned Summer Watermelon Bust
This week I was invited to guest post a family fun activity over with the amazing people of Mom It Forward. It felt like that moment when you did something back in school that was worthy enough to get you the nod of approval from the “cool kids”. I think we have well established my love of simplicity, and how …
UPDATED- The News You Don’t Know: A Thousand Children Are Being Detained in a Holding Facility in Arizona
I picked the name “JENerally Informed” for my blog for a very specific reason, so that I could blog about whatever story or activity I wanted to. I did have other plans for another post to share with you today, but when I heard about this story I thought Nope this is what I want to blog about today. It’s …
Man- Day Post: Why I Don’t Miss Dating as a Teenager
Welcome to Man-day with Jensguy! I have reached that awkward time in my life where I am starting to see the pictures of girls going to prom posted on Facebook by the mothers of the girls that I myself went to prom with. Ahh, Technology! My children are blessedly younger than that so I have a few more years to …
My Mommy Reality: A Moment of Trouble
Currently in my home there are 4 children, 1 rabbit, 1 dog, 12 fish some living in a tank inside our house and the rest are in our pond outside. Add to that 2 sleep deprived parents and a whole slew of neighborhood children and animals that frequent our house and there are very few moments I can think of …
