Honoring Our Veterans this Memorial Day with WWE

22 Wednesday May 2013

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Honoring Our Veterans this Memorial Day with WWE

We have emphasized to our children that the upcoming Memorial Holiday means so much more than just family picnics and bouncy castles. Our country is so blessed to have so many brave men and women who work so hard to keep us free. Our family has been honored to have veterans from many of the armed forces: Marines, Air Force and Army.

As citizens, we need to do everything we can to support our veterans. We have donated many times to Bob Woodruff Foundation.org or purchased UnderArmour to salute the Wounded Warrior Project. This year our boy’s favorite Sports Entertainment Company WWE will salute our Armed Forces by championing the cause Hire Heroes USA an organization dedicated to serving our nation’s veterans through personalized job search training and assistance.  In this economy, job opportunities and training are critical for men and women re-entering the workforce from combative duty.  This theory is discussed by our close friends Sydney Howe Barksdale and Diane Kelly in their brilliant academic treatise about how to heal our heroes called “Treating Young Veterans: Promoting Resilience through Practice and Advocacy”.

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Travel Mommy: Sunny Sanibel with Extraordinary Women

20 Monday May 2013

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“Everyone needs a little time away far away from the ones that we love” ..

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As busy working moms, we rarely take time for ourselves. Given our midlife hormones, we are often sleep-deprived and stressed from everyday life. It is so important that we get away every year for a few days from our family. Life is rough when mom isn’t there to hunt down clean underwear, the soccer uniform or missing homework along with managing the cooking and cleaning. So in our absence our family realizes how much we do and how much they love us.  Best of all, we come back refreshed and relaxed.

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Sports Apps: Recovering from Major Injuries

17 Friday May 2013

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The beautiful Achilles Scar

Sports Apps: Recovering from Major Injuries

Sports and fitness apps are all the rage! Ever since Nike Fit came on the market, we have analyzed and tried out different devices and Apps. However, our athletic career came to a standstill when we almost severed our Achilles. Thank goodness our friends, family and physical therapist (pt) introduced us to some helpful Sports Apps that can spur recovery from major athletic injuries.

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Flying Delta, Southwest, US Air, and United With A Disability

13 Monday May 2013

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Flying Delta, Southwest, US Air, & United with a disability

Navigating Achilles surgery on our right ankle last August was a very tough experience because the rehabilitation moved very slowly.  But the experience of being disabled opened our eyes to the very serious lessons of what it would be like to not be able to walk and have to be so reliant on other people. It was very interesting to see how one is treated with a disability during everyday activities and especially during travel. Since we love to write about travel, we thought it would be helpful to share our experiences with different airlines.

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Travel-Mommy: Perfect Mother’s Day outing, gifts and causes!

10 Friday May 2013

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Travel-Mommy: Perfect Mother’s Day outing, Gifts and causes!

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A copy of Kees Van Dongren’s The Corn Poppy by my Mom

The Perfect Outing:

This year we have the perfect Mother’s Day outing planned. Our mom is taking us to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) to see the Picasso exhibit followed by an early dinner.  A day exploring an art museum is a childhood tradition that we still treasure.  When growing up in Tennessee, our mom would create a fun family night by making us pretend we were visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City. She would share slides from her days at Moore College of Art.  To keep us entertained, she would explain the inspirations and techniques of the artists in exquisite detail allowing the vivid colors to jump off the screen.

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Susan G. Komen, WWE and Happy Mother’s Day

08 Wednesday May 2013

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 WWE GIves Back yet again!

Susan G. Komen and WWE wish you Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day this Sunday! To celebrate the gift of motherhood, WWEmoms are teaming up with the Susan G. Komen team for a twitter chat on Thursday from 7-8pm ET  to discuss the Foundation’s  “Make Mom Proud” awareness campaign in partnership with the WWE to support the fight against breast cancer. WWE urges fans to support moms by taking steps to educate themselves about breast cancer, participate in local Susan G. Komen Races in their communities, and donate to Komen, the world’s largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research and community outreach programs.

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Tech-Mommy: Health and Wellness Apps for Moms

06 Monday May 2013

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Tech-Mommy: Health and Wellness Apps for Moms

With our crazy busy life styles, moms need to take time to make sure we keep ourselves healthy. Luckily, now there are a variety of health and wellness apps to help keep the doctor away.  We can use these apps while waiting for school pickup or in the grocery line.

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Rod Stewart:A classic comeback

05 Sunday May 2013

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“Love the life you live and live the life you love“-Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart: A classic come back

We chose Rod Stewart’s version of Van Morrison‘s “Have I told you lately that I love you” as our wedding song. Since we started listening to Rod Stewart as a tween, he remains a timeless classic to us.  He has spent four decades being a rock star, three being a parent, and has a new album’s worth of rollicking stories to tell. Time is his first album of new material in almost 20 years and his hairstyle hasn’t changed one bit! Some of the highlights of the album are:

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Travel-Mommy: Family Trip to Dallas

03 Friday May 2013

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Dallas skyline (Photo credit: dherrera_96)

When you think of Texas the first city that comes to mind is Dallas. The land of the cowboy can make a wonderful affordable family vacation. We love the Texan attitude of big and brave and strong. We have visited Dallas many times to see family and each time we find something new to explore.

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WWE Worldwide Make-A-Wish Day and New DIVA’s Show on E!

01 Wednesday May 2013

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Worldwide Make-A-Wish Day on April 29th became a very special occasion in our house when the WWE highlighted the celebration with a special Monday Night Raw episode. John Cena granted the wishes of three little boys to become WWE Superstars for the night. Our boys sat on the end of their seats completely impressed by how happy a small wish can make a sick child.

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