Archive for June 2008

OnTrack…more energy, less sugar. That works.

Jun 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Media, Uncategorized

In this month’s blog I wrote a contest that we’re doing with OnTrack, a northern California company that I credit for breaking my Fruit Roll-Up dependency.
I’ve chosen not to start drinking coffee, even though I could use the energy, because I don’t trust myself to use the substance responsibly. Instead I look for energy [...]



Seventh Generation Test Notes

Jun 24th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Companies

Cleaning Green Challenge
Seventh Generation Notes
Our Mom Test Panel just tried the following Seventh Generation products.

* Emerald Cypress & Fir Tub and Tile Cleaner
* Emerald Cypress & Fir Toilet Bowl Cleaner
*Green Mandarin & Leaf All-Purpose Cleaner

* Ruby Grapefruit & Herb Natural Glass and Surface Cleaner

Have you met our Test Mom Panel?

Below you’ll [...]



Missy’s Pirate Mural

Jun 17th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Companies

Buy This!
Missy painted this mural for her son while she still pregnant with him! The name will be added once he’s born.
Missy’s Experience:
“I tell everyone if you can color in a coloring book and stay in the lines, you can paint these murals. It took me about a month and a half to finish [...]



Method Home: Mom Test Panel Notes

Jun 12th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Cleaning Green Challenge

Cleaning Green Challenge
Method Home Notes
Welcome to the Cleaning Green Challenge!
From Monday, May 9th to Monday May, 16th we’re trying four Method Home products.

* method Tub + Tile eucalyptus mint scent
* method Lil’ Bowl Blue toilet bowl cleaner in eucalyptus mint
* method All Surface in pink grapefruit
* method Best in Glass in mint

Have you met [...]



Mother Talkers.com- Will Smith’s New School

Jun 9th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Featured Blogs

Cross posted from www.mothertalkers.com. Author: Elisa

Will Smith and his actress wife Jada Pinkett Smith will open a private school in the fall focused on academics and the arts, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The school, New Village Academy, is slated to open this September at the Indian Hills High School campus in the Las Virgenes [...]



method Home: Class Notes

Jun 9th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Uncategorized

One Crazy Mother Test Panel

Name: Vanessa, Moms of Twins
Number of Children:2…One set of twin boys
About: Vanessa is a mom of two adorable twin boys. She lives in southern California and is an amazing photographer.
Check out her website at: http://vanessamphoto.com/

Name: Shindale, Hippie Mom
Number of Children: 1
About: Shindale is a modern hippie. One can usually find her [...]



Mom Testers

Jun 9th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Companies

Name: Vanessa, Moms of Twins
Number of Children:2…One set of twin boys
About: Vanessa is a mom of two adorable twin boys. She lives in southern California and is an amazing photographer.
Check out her website at: http://vanessamphoto.com/

Name: Shindale, Hippie Mom
Number of Children: 1
About: Shindale is a modern hippie. One can usually find her either sipping something green, [...]



Mothering- the most important job in the world? Maybe not

Jun 8th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Children

Moms and people who like them often call mothering the most important job in the world. I’m not sure. The claim is premised by the false assumption that horrible people come from bad parents- something we know not to be true.
There are stories all the time about great people who came from crappy situations [...]



Open Letter- Napping Baby Alert

Jun 8th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Open Letters

Dear (Fed Ex, UPS, USPS, Salespeople),
You may not have realized it from the stroller parked next to my driveway, but I have a small child. A small child who, as weird as it sounds, becomes sleepy everyday at 10 am. That’s when I give her a cup of milk, find her lovey, and put [...]



Clueless Company Award..Pur Water!

Jun 8th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Companies

It’s been far too long since I criticized a company’s efforts to dazzle the “mom market”. Our newest victim is Pur. Now I’m all for drinking on the job, but I draw the line at smoking crack on company time- something the product development team at Pur obviously does.
Crave Pur Flavor Options allows you to [...]