Just popping in to let you know that if you were looking for my thoughts on the Palm Pre Plus or the HP mini 311 I had on loan from Verizon Wireless you can find the review at Family Rambling.
Over and out.

Though it’s never a bad thing to have one of your projects really “take off” it can cause one to neglect others.  And that has been happening more and more here at Iowa Geek as my travel sites have begun taking me places I hadn’t really imagined and are requiring more and more time.
I’m going [...]

It’s coming up on midnight…  It will be midnight by the time I finish this post and tuck into bed.
Thankfully the swag bags are all filled and loaded into my van.  The blackout bingo cards for door prizes are almost done printing.  I’ve got to make some door signs and then I’ll call it a [...]

Six weeks of planning is coming to an end!  Des Moines Moms Nite Out is this Thursday and I think it’s going to be an amazing evening!
Thanks to DMACC I am able to have the event catered by In the Bag.  Thanks to Veridian Credit Union each registered attendee will have a bag to carry [...]

I was at a friend’s house a few weeks ago waiting for our small group gathering to begin and picked up an appetizing cookbook from her side table.  After leafing through it I asked where she had gotten it because I wanted to get one.  The next time I saw her she had bought a [...]

Princesses?  Toy Story?  Fairies?  Or maybe exciting rides, long lines and lots of kids?
What about food?  Turns out Walt Disney World has quite an array of restaurants- from 5 stars to Mickey bars.  And I’ll be there this weekend, eating my way through the “happiest place on Earth”.
I’ll be taking pictures and sending out notes [...]

Have you bought a ticket for yourself/ your wife/ your sister/ mother/ mother-in-law for Moms Nite Out in Des Moines yet?  Why not?  It’s just two weeks away!
The evening includes:

dinner- catered by In the Bag
shopping- with great stores like Godiva, Lillian’s, Roger’s Jewelers and more
creativity- in the Creative Memories suite
a bag filled with gifts [...]

I work with a company called Mom Select quite a bit and they asked me to share this opportunity with my Fab Food Friday readers.  I’m happy to share this opportunity because this is a product I have been buying for at least 10 years.  You don’t have to be a mom to be part [...]

Fajitas are a relatively easy dish to make- if you want to fire up the grill.  So we rarely made them outside of the summer months.
Recently my sister in law began selling Pampered Chef products and I bought the Deep Covered Baker for its versatility.  Besides, who doesn’t love Pampered Chef?  Anyway…  I got the [...]

Being a stay-at-home-mom involves anything but staying at home.  Sure, there may be times you’re home but more often you’re …

running kids to school
waiting in line to pick kids up from school
waiting while kids are at practice for (insert sport, music lesson, dance class, gymnastics lesson, etc here)
making a “quick stop” at a store for [...]

It’s true!  A year ago you could barely get me to utter the name but now I am a complete convert- so much so that, at the first sign of spring, the girls and I were off to our local Crocs store and we bought new slip-on shoes for spring.
I bought the super cute Lily [...]

Here in central Iowa those showers that replace the brown grass with green and bring the flowers up from their long winter slumber can turn from a friendly spring rain to a nasty storm.  (I’m actually wondering if we’ll have one tonight as my head is hurting due to the change in barometer, but for [...]

Spring marks the beginning of “smoothie season” in my house.  That’s the season when breakfast or a quick snack can be created in minutes with a blender, some fruit, yogurt and milk.  With only 3 ingredients I can whip up a healthy filling beverage.  To make fruit pops just pour the smoothie into popsicle containers [...]

Usually on Fab Food Friday I share recipes I make at home but this news is too exciting for me to not share.
I am going to Disney World in a couple of weeks on a culinary journey “from 5 stars to Mickey bars”.
I’ll have a summary appear on this site when I return, but to [...]

Putting together an event link Moms Nite Out is a lot of work and costs quite a bit of money.  So I am really grateful when local companies step in to help.
Today I want to thank Veridian Credit Union for filling a HUGE need…  Bags.  Unless you buy bags in a very large amount they [...]