30 Apr
From time to time I find great ideas for dinner on blogs. As everyone knows, there are cooking blogs, and mommy cooking blogs and blogs about cooking, etc. etc. I’ve even had the pleasure of meeting a fellow DC Metro Mom Contributor who has a fantastic cooking blog…
This ‘recipe’ is for the rest [...]
Posted in Food and Drink by: Nicole
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29 Apr
Just in time for Mother’s Day, get a 10% discount on Silpada Jewelry by just mentioning that you are a BananaBlueberry reader
AND you could win FREE jewelry, which I’ll explain in a minute !!
First of all, Silpada Jewelry is a favorite of mine! It’s sterling silver designs, complemented with colorful semi-precious gemstones and [...]
Posted in Around DC by: Nicole
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29 Apr
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to my brother and sister-in-law !!!
John Theodore was born yesterday evening at 6:47pm. He’s 7 pounds 15 ounces and 21 inches long.
My awesome sister-in-law was in labor for about 5 hours and everything went smoothly.
They are calling him Jack!
He is their second… that makes all grandsons on my side of [...]
Posted in Babies by: Nicole
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28 Apr
This movie, The Last of the Mohicans, is always on TV. My husband has seen it about 20 times, it’s supposedly a good movie. Oh, by the way, it first came out 17 years ago…
I have not seen it all the way through, because now it has become a joke in our house, that [...]
Posted in Entertainment by: Nicole
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27 Apr
I have my good days… and I have my bad days.
Don’t you love those days that are terrific? When everything falls into place at just the right time: everyone is happy, the house is clean, the wash is done and folded, dinner is planned and you’re doing an educational art project with your son? [...]
Posted in dc metro moms by: Nicole
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24 Apr
Yes, less than a month ago, I first saw Twilight. Then I read the book, and now I’ve read New Moon.
I knew that this book was mainly about Bella and Jacob and about werewolves, but that’s about it.
In a sentence- this book was good…
Now, with that out of the way, a [...]
Posted in Mom Blogs by: Nicole
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23 Apr
A decade ago, when I started freelancing, I realized that I could re-use paper… umm, yeah, DUH!
So all my paper that had something on just 1 side, I put in this light blue box. I kept using it and using it, recycling and recycling. I put it in my printer whenever I’m printing stuff out [...]
Posted in Home by: Nicole
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21 Apr
Who doesn’t want really white teeth?
What’s amazing is that a decade ago the teeth whitening industry really didn’t exist… My how things change…
Years ago, when you could only buy Go Smile whitening strips at Saks, I headed over there and went to pick myself up a package; one of my girlfriends worked there at [...]
Posted in Economics by: Nicole
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20 Apr
On this rainy Monday morning,
I can always count on words of wisdom from
Mr. Rogers,
”Love and trust,
in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life,
can make all [...]
Posted in Great Quotes by: Nicole
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17 Apr
I was planning on ending the week highlighting SpiritJava. As you can see in the logo, SpiritJava consists of ‘Caffeinated Meditations’. If you click here you can enter your name and email and receive at the start of each day a quote, and a few lines written by Gregg Kennard.
Imagine my surprise when I opened [...]
Posted in Mom Worth by: Nicole
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