tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12286029402453583832024-03-14T13:13:21.739-04:00Kelly Brown SaysMomma Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11340045452218510775noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-59192885510837143722014-10-06T22:48:00.001-04:002014-10-06T22:48:52.138-04:00Hey! I'm Runnin' Here! | Men's Health URBANATHLON #MHURB #spon
Over the last two years I've had a love/hate relationship with running.
Mostly hate.
In my head I want to run. I want to plod my way through miles upon miles of asphalt. I want to have another moment when I happen upon a landscape that strikes me mute at the beauty that is unfolding before me with every step. I want my soul to be invigorated by achievements that bring on crippling Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-79540854569112753342014-08-07T22:04:00.000-04:002014-08-07T22:04:10.488-04:00ZOMFG Facebook is listening to me fucking fart in the bathroom! | How to Opt-out of Facebook's creeper setting
Guys. Everyone is FREAKING THE FUCK OUT over the new Facebook messenger app.
The newest app updates disable messenger within the Facebook app, forcing you to download the Facebook Messenger app. I will grant you that it is a battery killa and that needs to change. But as usual, the internetz has devolved into a puddle of muppet-like arm-waving, and ravings about privacy because this new Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-14793421917654487722014-07-25T17:14:00.000-04:002014-07-25T17:14:05.413-04:00Wubble Bubble - Parent Aggression Therapy #spon
Last week I went to a new conference, Blogger Bash, in NYC. I came home with lots of goodies, but the one I was most excited about was the Wubble Ball. Izzy has been bugging me for this thing ever since she saw the commercial a few weeks ago. When I was offered a chance to take one home for review, I flipped! Honestly, I think I was more excited about this ball than her.
I thought for theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-9953147196159797632014-07-25T08:05:00.001-04:002014-07-25T08:05:13.124-04:00#OperationBabyWeight: Beginning another journey on Medifast #spon
I'm starting Medifast again! I'll be switching it up a little this time and doing some videos. I hope you will join me on the next leg of my journey!
*FTC Disclosure: Medifast provides their products for my personal use for free. I am not paid or compensated in any other way for mentioning their products. All thoughts written here are mine. I love complaining so I would tell you if I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-81406900216686414862014-07-03T12:15:00.000-04:002014-07-03T12:15:18.747-04:00I had a baby. It was a pretty big deal.
These are some of the last maternity photos that will ever be taken of me. This is a bittersweet notion for me. I don’t think I can manage more than two children. However, the idea of never being pregnant again - the pure sweetness of holding a newly born infant, or the feeling of peace you feel when they take their first breath and cry - it makes me wistful and daydreamy about having more Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-31880510326359978452014-01-28T22:24:00.002-05:002014-01-28T22:24:23.142-05:00Benefit vs. Risk | Pregnancy, Depression, Suicide and Antidepressants. Fun stuff.
I’ve been gone for a while. I needed a break from...well, pretty much everything. I feel like I can’t jump back into this blog until I talk about where I've been. So this is the story of where I've been since I last posted five months ago. Actually, I've been writing this story for almost as long. So please forgive me if it seems a little off, or weird, or the time frames don’t make sense. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-68003071364402765302013-08-27T16:09:00.000-04:002013-08-27T16:09:03.180-04:00You watched me shrink...
Now watch me grow again!
We started our Spring planting early this year!
Who would have thought I'd be excited about getting huge again? Hopefully it will just be my belly that grows and everything else will stay (relatively) the same size.
P.S. I totally got pregnant just because I ran out of blogging material. ;)
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-51932176346066205842013-08-12T21:41:00.000-04:002013-08-12T21:41:05.523-04:00How being on #TeamPolar helped me get my fitness mojo back #FitFluential
Okay, so I feel like I have to start this post with a confession.
Me and running - we kinda broke up for a little while. Me and running broke up so bad that I even gave it back the friendship bracelet made out of safety pins from old bibs.
Ask me to go running - or pretty much any physical activity, and this is the reaction you'd probably get:
I couldn't put my finger on it but the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-54991181851792730812013-07-08T12:02:00.000-04:002013-07-08T16:52:08.527-04:00We're going to have #BetterNights with GoodNites! #ad“This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™ and GoodNites, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #BetterNights.”
Do you know what happened last week? It was very traumatic. I can barely speak of it a week later.
Our baby turned five.
FIVE.
She starts kindergarten in the fall. My heart, it breaks.
Okay, so that is a wee bit Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-78208013012410346772013-05-21T14:53:00.000-04:002013-05-21T20:34:31.590-04:00Mohawk Licensed To Spill Tour comes to Philly! #ad
Have you ever heard the story of Sarah Winchester and the Mystery House? In short, Sarah was convinced by a medium that her family was haunted by the spirits of all the people that had been killed by Winchester rifles. To appease these spirits, she was told that she needed to build a home large enough to accommodate all of the spirits. Thus began years and years of endless, 24/7 construction. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-86494873612685012982013-04-30T21:32:00.001-04:002013-04-30T23:07:26.976-04:00Broad Street Bully | A Guide to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Broad Street Run
I’m doing it again. I’m taking on the 10 mile Blue Cross Broad Street Run for the second year in a row.
Last year I was so scared. This was not only my first big race - but my first solo race as well. I had to get into the city all by myself, well before dawn, navigate the public transit system, and find my corral all by myself.
Fun fact: I’m a nervous tinkler. Being a nervous Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-59304038090549874942013-04-25T00:03:00.001-04:002013-04-25T00:11:30.649-04:00I was pregnant...for like, 30 seconds.
Today we are going to talk about my uterus. There will be much TMI. This is a rare moment on the blog because nothing skeeves me out more than talking about the crap that comes out of or goes into one’s vargeena.
But stuff happened. Stuff that went into my Ute and then stuff that came out. Stuff that made me happy and then stuff that made me sad. Stuff that first resulted in no clean up and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-57028876196765645832013-04-12T09:49:00.002-04:002013-04-12T10:12:11.391-04:00I Heart Food | Manayunk StrEat Food Festival
Now that I’m in the habit of watching my calories and practicing moderation, I often have anxiety over food when dining out. I don’t worry that I will lose self control and binge or choose foods that are not nutritionally sound. It is far worse than that. I have anxiety over FOOD REGRET. Food Regret is when you are trying out a new restaurant, everything looks delicious, and you can’t decide Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-72724125446602660492013-02-12T22:44:00.000-05:002013-03-16T21:56:45.221-04:00I've been on tour
Follow my blog with BloglovinAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-31012957885593483102013-01-09T09:59:00.000-05:002013-01-09T09:59:18.912-05:0010 Steps to Being a Better Parent in 2013Resolutions - better known as ‘How to kill your self esteem with the first 24 hours of the New Year.’ I don’t traditionally make New Year resolutions. Scratch that. I don’t keep New Year resolutions. If failed attempts at resolutions were dollar bills, I would have enough money to pay off that credit card that I resolved to pay off two years ago. After years and years of failure, I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-21175740787678358862013-01-01T16:37:00.001-05:002013-01-01T16:37:45.704-05:00Take it off | The New Year
Happy New Year everyone!!!!
Timing is truly everything. I’m sure it’s no shock, considering my lack of posting about my diet, there hasn't been much of a diet. It’s not that I haven’t been trying. I have been half-heartedly doing the 4&2. But ya know, it really doesn't count for much if you chase a Medifast Brownie with a White Chocolate Pumpkin Latte from Dunkin Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-2555455707658454732012-12-29T22:11:00.000-05:002012-12-29T22:11:31.397-05:00Because this is easier than finishing the 80 posts I've started in the last month
I don't do a whole lot of these Q&A memes. However, its been, like, forever since I've posted anything here. I've been writing for other places - which is awesome - but I love here. I've neglected my space. But I'm also sort of not feeling this whole blogging thing right now. I want to, I honestly do. The ambition to write and share and laugh with y'all is there. I think I just have a littleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-49419909706827825742012-12-14T22:02:00.002-05:002012-12-14T22:02:30.441-05:00Giveaway | Stay Connected with NetZero
In the past few weeks, I've been insanely busy. I've worked so much overtime in the past few weeks that when I opened my paycheck this week, I thought I had won the PowerBall. I've been staying so late at work that I've had little time to spare at home for all of my little side projects. The 'Blonde Tornado' (aka Izzy) demands my attention - and honestly, that is where I want my attention to be.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-60513601236518786222012-12-10T21:00:00.000-05:002012-12-10T21:00:18.897-05:00Funny Santa Photo Contest!
Boy, oh boy, do I LOVE taking my kid to see Santa every year. The excitement, the anticipation, the idle threats, tears, and screams of terror. It's one bell-ringing, Fa-fa-ing, holiday denouncing time! There's nothing I love more than standing in a line for over an hour with 400 of the whiniest kids in a tri-state radius, to plop my terrified, antsy, pissed off and hungry kid on the lap of someAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-46078948266766570072012-12-09T21:36:00.003-05:002012-12-09T21:38:36.943-05:00A Longwood Christmas
Despite being a Pennsylvania 'thing', whenever people ask me what the must-see destinations are in Delaware, my first response is always 'Longwood Gardens!' I go as often as possible and every time I see something new that I had previously discovered. Try as I might, I've never been able to make time to go during the holiday season for the annual Christmas at Longwood display. Now that I've beenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-14348468698264259512012-12-07T13:50:00.002-05:002012-12-07T13:50:58.976-05:00Santa Claus is coming to town!I've been on my best behavior lately...well, I've been trying. Trying counts for something, right?...I hope.
But this week especially, I'm minding my manners. I'm barely blinking without getting permission to do so first. Why? Because the big guy is coming to town.
The real deal. The Head Honcho. The Big Boss. Big Red.
Holy crap y'all! Santa is coming to MY Macy's!
Oh no. I hope he Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-73180248865986274332012-12-05T20:53:00.000-05:002012-12-05T20:53:53.770-05:00Keep Warm With Hot Deals at Kmart.comThis time last year I was on a mission. I had just finished the Couch to 5k and my first 5k race right around Thanksgiving. It had just started to get cold and people were asking me what I'd do for exercise now that it's cold.
"What do you mean?" I'd say.
The usual reply would be something like "I HATE running/walking/acknowledging the existence of cold weather!"
Here's three Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-72038812873998093042012-12-04T20:16:00.000-05:002012-12-04T20:16:12.803-05:00Stuff that poops
So...how do I phrase this?
I kind of have this thing for poop.
Now don't get scared. It's nothing freaky-deaky. I just think poop is funny. Even the word is fun to say.
poop!
So when I was in the basement the other day and found my collection of pooping toys, I had to share them with you.
My favorite is the Santa because he's actually poppin' a squat. But the cat with the satisfied grin Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-79847448766890490862012-11-23T09:18:00.002-05:002012-11-30T18:30:38.961-05:00"Turn Black Friday Red, White, & Blue" GIVEAWAY
Buying American has always been important to my family and during Christmas, this is especially true. That's why I'm taking part in a multi-blog Giveaway with the USA Love List. Details on how you can enter to win a variety of fantastic American made toys for your kids is below!
NOTE: There are a LOT of entry options below, but don't be overwhelmed. They are not required... however, the more Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228602940245358383.post-47445583537650323812012-11-22T21:36:00.000-05:002012-11-30T18:29:53.816-05:00Take it off | Talking Turkey
This was me at Thanksgiving in 2010.
I know how to bring the love to the holidays.
This is me now...well, the most recent full body photo I could find.
Is my kid a little lady or what? Geez.
Anyway, as you can see it's quite a difference. Thanks to Medifast, I am going into this holiday season nearly 100 pounds lighter and in control of my health.
The holidays are usually a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980069233604864026noreply@blogger.com0