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6 Things I Would Tell My 20-Year-Old Self

At twenty I was like many kids at that age: A youthful mixture of  bravado and immaturity. Every thing seemed SO important. EVERY decision was larger than life. Yet honestly, I didn’t have a clue who I was. In reality, I was just a girl who would struggle with frizzy hair for almost forty years […]

Filed Under: College & Empty Nest, Get Inspired, Lists, Parenting, Popular Posts Tagged With: advice for college kids, advice for teens, college 101, college tips, dating, marriage, twenty years old, what I wish I would have known when I was younger

Halloween: Bring. It. On.

I love Halloween. The trick or treating, the haunted houses, the kids in costumes, the decorations, the candy! It’s even better than Valentine’s Day, because you get to dress up. When my kids were little and had no choice but to hang with the hubby and I on Halloween, friends would gather at our house […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: candy, carpoolgoddess, costumes, halloween, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, trick or treating

Wordless Wednesday: Start The Day With A Smile

Happy Buddha from Carpool Goddess

Every morning I look out into the garden and see my happy friend. I know if he’s laughing and smiling it’s going to be a good day. He’s got it all figured out. What is your morning routine to help start your day on the right track?  

Filed Under: Get Inspired Tagged With: how start the day with a smile, laughing buddha

Dove’s Self-Esteem Weekend: Promoting Beauty, Confidence and Self-Esteem in Young Girls

Body and beauty issues come to girls and women of all shapes and sizes. Middle School and High School can be particularly difficult for girls. Flat-chested, dark frizzy-haired, bucktoothed, and ethnic looking (I was told this), clearly, these were not my best years,

Filed Under: Beauty, Fashion & Exercise, Get Inspired Tagged With: Dove, girls, Jess Weiner, self-esteem

How To Keep Your Smart Phone & iPad Free Of Sticky Fingers

Sticky fingers aren’t always on small hands. If you’re anything like me and can’t seem to keep your hands off your Smart Phone and/or iPad while working in the kitchen, putting on makeup, getting crafty with glue or impatiently waiting for your mani to dry, but want to keep your high tech gadget clean, cover […]

Filed Under: Recipes & Entertaining Tagged With: Glad Cling Wrap, iPad, iPhone, Smart Phone

Lite & Easy Egg Salad Recipe- I like egg salad and I’m not afraid to admit it. Neither should you.

I know some of you might cringe at the thought of egg salad, but to me it is divine. And what I love most about it is that it’s one more thing I can make easily in the kitchen. (Hey, I’ll take my successes where I can get them.) Recipe: Add three hard boiled eggs […]

Filed Under: Recipes & Entertaining Tagged With: Cuisinart, egg salad, Martha Stewart

Get Inspired: Goddesses Need Hope & Courage, Too

Every now and then I come across something that inspires me and I save it to a file on my computer, where it will probably never be seen again. So instead of keeping these golden nuggets in hiding, I wanted to share them with you, because we all could use a spoonful of hope and […]

Filed Under: Get Inspired Tagged With: Coco Chanel. Ayn Rand, courage, inspiration, Shaun Cassidy, Tina Fey

Bring Up The Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

Filed Under: Reading List

You Don’t Sweat Much For A Fat Girl

by Celia Rivenbark

Filed Under: Reading List

Feed Your Face

by Jessica Wu, M.D.

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