I wish I could put what is in my head into words. I wish I could unburden myself, pour it all out of myself in a thick stream, and have something that makes any kind of sense come out. This blog was started as a personal diary, but back then, there was no Twitter or Facebook. I didn't know about Google, about each individual post being it's own search result. I didn't know how not private a blog is. Unless I were to password-protect this blog, there's no way to make what I write here private. There's no way I can use this space as a place to write about what's really happening in my life, because it's not really personal anymore. Table for Five is a brand, an entity with a life of it's own. But all I want to do right now is write, unburden, purge. The problem with blogging as a job is that any other kind of blogging besides the kind that furthers business goals feels like cheating. I need 5 or 6 hours a day MINIMUM to make even a small dent in my email and update my three … [Read more...]
Free Reading Games for Preschoolers at GoGo Kabongo
GoGo Kabongo free games for preschool age kids develops cognitive skills while kids play fun free reading games. Kabongo games help kids develop the skills they will need to be better readers, including: * Attention and Focus * Memory Skills * Processing * Planning * Visualization * Comprehension At Kabongo.com, parents create an account with an email address or Facebook account, create their child's profile, and choose how many areas of the game, called habitats, their child will be able to access. Your child's character is an alien skateboarder who hangs out in a cool treehouse. Once your child customizes their character (that's Kaitlyn's creation on the left), they can use the Map hanging on the treehouse wall to go to areas like Twister Top, Galaxy Gardens, and Laughter Lake. Laughter Lake is free, Galaxy Gardens is free for a limited time only, and Twister Top has a $4.95 introductory price. Inside the treehouse, your child uses the mouse to move their avatar around … [Read more...]
Tackle it Tuesday – My Bathroom Shelves
In the bathroom that Kaitlyn and I share, I have a deep recess in the wall with shelves that I use to store all my makeup and skincare stuff. I never meant to let it get this bad. The storage cabinets with the multiple drawers seemed like such a good idea at first, I would have one drawer for face makeup, one drawer for eye makeup, one drawer for lip makeup, etc. Everything would stay neatly in it's drawer and I'd always know where everything was. Yeah, right. Not only have I failed at keeping the drawers organized, but I have all this big stuff that doesn't fit in the drawers that ends up piled up in FRONT of the drawers. Which means I can't OPEN the drawers. I'm going to show you something that causes me all kinds of embarrassment any time someone comes over here and needs to use my bathroom: And here's my biggest problem, bigger even than these shelves - I can't throw things away if they still seem useful. For example, I have lipsticks I bought that seemed great at the store … [Read more...]
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