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My Favorite Ethnic Food is… Monday Mingle Vlog

April 4, 2011 by Momstart 7 Comments

Welcome to Monday Mingle where we answer three questions every week over at Eighty MPH Mom on video. Then we go link up and visit each other and learn about each other. This weeks’ questions:

Current questions {week of 4/4/11}:

1. If you could choose a new career path, what would you choose?
2. What is your favorite ethnic food?

3. Are your kids involved in sports/activities?

I have to first apologize for not making it around last week or the week before. I’ve been swamped over here with the kids and trying to make some extra money. I will take this afternoon off and try to get to you guys this week.

My answers for this week. :

I would not change my career path, I love staying home with my children.

I love Mexican food and Indian food.

My kids are not involved sports of any kind yet.

I look forward to reading everyone else’s answers this week.

Remember, Monday Mingle is a chance to chat over video answering questions. It’s fun and the more video you do on your blog the more comfortable you will be in front of the camera. Want to participate? Monday Mingle is a Meme over at Eighty MPH Mom. Go over to her site, find the questions, take a video of the answers and post them to share. Then visit everyone that linked up and have fun getting to know each other. However, if you aren’t ready to do video, just post the questions on your site and answer them. Then link up and we’ll still come and visit you leaving the answers.

What Would You Do Without The Internet or TV? Vlog

March 21, 2011 by Momstart 6 Comments

Welcome to Monday Mingle!

This week’s questions:

Current questions {week of 3/21/11}:

1. What would you do for fun if you had to give up TV and internet?
2. What is your favorite breed of dog?

3. What is under your bed right now?

My answers:

If I had to give up internet and TV then I would go back to painting. I used to paint a lot before I had kids. I have tons of artwork under my bed, which happens to be question number thee. Of course if you really wanted to get down to what’s under my bed, we also have cracker packages, my iPad is under my bed along with a package of chocolate that I’ve been slowly working on since Valentine’s Day. I think in the video I said Mother’s Day but that’s not until May and rest assured the package of chocolate is not THAT old.

My favorite breed of dog is yes, chocolate labs, my dream dog that we recently decided we were not able to keep. Having a dog, a blog, traveling and two kids makes taking care of a puppy exhausting. So she’s living with a new family now that can care for her better than I could.

I look forward to reading everyone else’s answers this week.

See My Spring Flowers Monday Mingle Vlog

February 28, 2011 by Momstart 7 Comments

Welcome to Monday Mingle, where we chat over video answering questions. It’s fun and the more video you do on your blog the more comfortable you will be in front of the camera. Want to participate? Monday Mingle is a Meme over at Eighty MPH Mom. Go over to her site, find the questions, take a video of the answers and post them to share. Then visit everyone that linked up and have fun getting to know each other.

Current questions {week of 2/28/11}:

1. Do you have Spring flowers (or any flowers) blooming in your yard right now? Show us!
2. Are you watching American Idol this season? What do you think about the new judges?

3. Tell us something that happened to you last week!

1) Yes I have lots of flowers coming up in the yard but I was too lazy to show you them on the video. So you really didn’t miss much if you didn’t watch the video. I do have some planters, and we’re growing some flowers from seeds but we have to wait until the weather warms up some before we transplant them outside.

2) I don’t have cable and we don’t and have never ever watched American Idol. I have watched it while visiting family but it’s not my thing.

3) It snowed last week and my husband pelted me right on the head.

What happened to you last week?

What is your favorite Food You can’t Live without? Monday Mingle

January 31, 2011 by Momstart 10 Comments

Happy Monday Mingle:

Current questions {week of 1/24/11}:

1. What is one food or drink you cannot live without?
2. Are you a foodie? Do you like to cook or are you a food blogger?

3. What is your one easy family friendly recipe, or amazing supersecret recipe that you are known for? Share it here if it isn’t a closely guarded family secret.

So I said that chocolate is the food I can’t live without, if you know me then you guessed it right off the bat. I love to cook and I’m not a food blogger but I do blog about food. And my recipe is one that I cook a lot.

Monday Mingle January 17th, Are you Up for Video Challenges?

January 17, 2011 by Momstart 9 Comments

Happy Monday Mingle:

This week’s questions {week of 1/17/11}:

1. How do you feel about doing fun challenges for Monday Mingle every once in awhile? Like take a video of yourself trying to blow the shell off of a hardboiled egg (just an example
2. Who is one of your heroes and why do they inspire you?

3. What was the best TV sitcom ever?

Yes I am up for video challenges, My heroes are my two grandmothers, both are cancer survivors and have ALWAYS been there for me, and Alias is my favorite show, but is not a sitcom now that I think about it.

Oh and if you guys wouldn’t mind voting for me, Vote Apple Champ at Go Meat You can vote daily!

Guest Blogging, What’s your take?

November 2, 2010 by Momstart 11 Comments

I’m a little late with my Monday Mingle this week but here it is better late than never I say.

This week’s questions (submitted by Alexes from One Cluttered Brain):

1. What is your favorite way to spend your time during the day?
2. What do you think about guest posting on other people’s blogs? Have you ever done it before? Did you like it?
3. What is the craziest item in your purse??

Do you do guest blog posts?

(just a fair warning, this is a random blurb, with answers to all three questions mixed in)

Yes I do if I had more time. Guest blogging increases awareness of yourself. It gives you the chance to interact with a new reader set. Some people do it just for the page rank, but I only do it if I have time and I feel that I can write something that audience will benefit from. For you to have guest posts on your site it can give you more content. I don’t ever have issues coming up with content, I just have issues with having time to write it. From now until after Christmas, I’ll be lucky to get anything up that isn’t a review or giveaway. But I’m going to work really hard to keep it about our family. I was thinking of only doing giveaway posts during the weekend and having actual content up during the week. But I’d have to turn off the TV to do that. We just signed up for a Netflix account and all we’ve been doing for the last few weeks is watching Lost. I also was reading the Hunger Games. I read all three books in 2 weeks. I would have read it even faster but every night my husband would wake up in the middle of the night and remind me that I have to get up in the morning and told me to go to bed. I think that’s why I got sick, was because I was up every night reading. Oh that and the new dog that needs to go out all the time.

Anyways, I do like guest blogging and if you want to have a guest post on Mom Start. I’m always up for that. Just let me know.

Want to participate? Monday Mingle is a Meme over at Eighty MPH Mom. Go over to her site, find the questions, take a video of the answers and post them to share. Then visit everyone that linked up and have fun getting to know each other.

The Final Monday Moment Sponsored by Starbucks #giveaway

April 5, 2010 by Momstart 149 Comments

My favorite time of the day is cuddle time. This was when I had my surgery and I was not able to keep the kids really close to me, but we found a way to get them just close enough. I love cuddle time, and no my Christmas Tree is not still up. We took it down before my daughter’s birthday.

Starbucks sent me a really cool laptop bag and samples of the Vanilla Light and Mocha Light frappuccinos.

Every comment on this post is an entry to win the same thing. Comments will be collected for one week on this post and the first two posts. All comments will be combined for a chance at the frappuccinos and a 10.00 Gift Card.

The other two posts you can comment on are

Life Gets in the Way

Monday Moments by Starbucks

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Late Monday Moment – Life gets in the way sometimes

March 30, 2010 by Momstart 51 Comments

Last Monday I posted my first Monday Moment and yesterday, life got in the way of all of my plans and I didn’t get a lot of posts posted that needed to go up. I ended up going to bed crying because of how stressed I was about getting behind, my blog design isn’t going well, and my daughter yelling at me all day. Yesterday I needed a Mommy moment for sure.

Here is my desired Monday Moment!

Starbucks is sending me a 10.00 Gift Card and a sample pack of Vanilla Light frappuccinos.

Every comment on this post is an entry to win the same thing. Comments will be collected over the next three weeks starting today.

Monday Moments by Starbucks

March 22, 2010 by Momstart 194 Comments

For the next three weeks, Starbucks is hosting a Monday Moments with moms in celebration of their new product: Frappuccino Light. The Frappuccino Light comes in Vanilla and Mocha. Monday Moments are about moms taking time for themselves. Which is something I honestly don’t do enough.

This is a photo of the litl that I’m reviewing, but the Monday Moment for me is that it is naptime and the kids are asleep and I’m relaxing in the peace and quite.

1) I love gadgets

2) I love naptime

3) I love time to myself

Starbucks is sending me a 10.00 Gift Card and a sample pack of Vanilla Light frappuccinos.

Every comment on this post is an entry to win the same thing. Comments will be collected over the next three weeks starting today.