Confessions Of A Mom Geek

There was a time when my geekiness was not very stylish at all!  I was the one with the encyclopedia sized day-planner stuffed into my purse back in the late 80's.  After my first baby, I took my geekiness to a whole new level!  Enter the Palm Pilot!  I remember typing all of my recipes into it and pulling it out at the grocery store while other shoppers gave me curious looks.  Soon, I was dealing with a large, clunky cell phone and a Palm Pilot.... truly a female Inspector Gadget!

Between my sister and me, we have purchased and tested so many cell-phones that I have lost count. The phone that I have today and love is the Palm-Pre.  I started with carrying Palm Pilots and it looks like I have come full-circle.  Windows Mobile based phones are just not for me.  In my opinion, they are not very intuitive at all.  The Palm-Pre is beautiful in it's simplicity. 

Palm, Inc. as a company....what's up with that?  It seems this organization is always struggling.  Today's news is that Palm is up for grabs to any corporation who will have it! Please, I'm a Palm Fan!  Let's keep this wonderful phone from disappearing. 

More blogging to come regarding this great device!

Eggstravaganza 2010

We had our annual Easter egg-dying get together.  There are no rules.  The kids just grab a boiled egg from a pile.  They can dye or decorate it any way they choose!  Moms get involved too!  It's fun.  

This year my sister-in-law hosted our Eggstravaganza!  She provided plain white handled bags for the kids to design themselves.  We finished the event with a little egg hunt.

Every year, I tell myself that I'm going to study-up and learn some new and unique egg-dying tricks before the Eggstravaganza.  :)  I didn't do it this year, but I'm going to be prepared for next Easter!  So far, we use the tried and true method of writing names and drawing patterns on the egg with a white/clear wax crayon before dipping it into the dye.  

We also use a trick learned from a great aunt in which the egg is wrapped in several rubber bands and then dyed. 

 

Here are some egg dying tricks I want to try in the future:

• Silk-Tie Eggs - from the Martha Stewart website:

• Lace Eggs - also from Martha Stewart:

• Tissue Paper Eggs: