2010 February | Table for Five

Nearly Wordless Wednesday – My new Samsung Moment phone!

February 17, 2010 By Elizabeth

I've been talking to my husband about wanting a smartphone for months now, and finally on Monday, I took the plunge and went to the Sprint Store. I thought I was going to buy a Blackberry until I saw the Samsung Moment display phone and the H-U-G-E display screen. The Samsung Moment comes ready to sync with Google apps like Gmail, GTalk, and Calendar, and has the Android Market for thousands more apps. I'm not going to add a lot of them right now until I see how it affects the processing of the phone, instead I'm using Bookmarks for sites like Cozi Mobile, Facebook and Twitter. On the website for the phone I found this statement - "Feeling tied down? Break free from your PC with the Samsung Moment™." It's like they made this phone FOR ME. I can take Kaitlyn to the library for storytime without getting behind on email! Heck, for short trips, I won't even really need my laptop. Of all the things I've ever spent money on to improve the way I blog and communicate, this is by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: android, moment, nearly wordless, samung, smartphone

I like feeling validated about my choices

February 16, 2010 By Elizabeth

Image by Elizabeth/Table4Five via Flickr Up until recently, I had been feeling like I really messed up not sending Kaitlyn to preschool last September. I kept running across blog posts from other Moms of four year old girls, and their kids were writing their names and coloring pictures of people and houses and flowers, and since Kaitlyn isn't yet doing either of those things, I was feeling like a failure. Even though she wasn't fully potty trained at all last September which was our deciding factor in not sending her to school, and even though she CAN do a whole lot of pretty smart things now (including taking herself to the bathroom, FINALLY), I was doubting myself. But then over the last couple of days, Kaitlyn and I met some little girls who were exactly her size, who she instantly wanted to play with, who she just clicked with. Twice at the library and then again at the Sprint store, I sidled up to the other Moms and after telling them how cute their daughters were, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Being a Mom Tagged With: education, kaitlyn, parenting, preschool

For Your Home – Sinks and Vanities

February 14, 2010 By Elizabeth

UniqueVanities.com contacted me through Sponsored Reviews about reviewing their website, so I was thinking, how can I relate personally to a site that sells bathroom sinks and vanities? Then I remembered - I was watching some TV show really late the other night - one of the CSIs, probably - and they were looking in the victim's bathroom, and the sink looked exactly like the vessel sinks that UniqueVanities wanted me to check out. Have you seen these? What I find so fascinating is that while traditional bathroom sinks are either square or round and are almost always made of marble or porcelain, vessel sinks can be glass, stone, metal, all kinds of different shapes and colors. Did you know that bathroom vanities can look like a piece of antique furniture or like something from a science fiction movie? They can have embossed inlays, sections of stamped metal, be made of tempered glass - I had no idea. I thought bathroom cabinets came in different shades of wood laminate and that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: For the Home Tagged With: bathroom, Shopping, sink, vanity