If you have been thinking about traveling or taking a road trip with your family but aren't sure where to start, this call is for you!

Top 25 (and Counting) Travel Musts

You can work on the road without worrying about or struggling with painfully slow public wifi access.

Neck pillows can help eliminate booty pain. Fleece blankets are lightweight but mighty. Carry at least one of each - for every person in your vehicle - in a large, reusable shopping bag.

Although I forgot to mention it on the call, we added rain ponchos, umbrellas, and our smaller first aid kit to this bag.

Yes, there are more! Click the play button above to hear them.

Top 7 (and Counting) Tips for Traveling with Pets

Check with your vet before leaving. Take your pet's medical records with you. Place a little bit of clumping kitty litter in the carriers or cages and part of a yoga mat underneath. Cleaning up will be a breeze and your pet will not have to travel in their own mess.

For the rest of these tips, click the play button above.

Did I miss your tip? Leave it in a comment below! =)

Have fun, stay safe, and G-d bless,

Anonymous

It's hard to say goodbye, to end something that started with such passion, such joy, such promise.

Alas, my patience and my devotion are almost completely broken.

After publishing the last post detailing the issues in our relationship, I made the requisite updates for my cousin's WordPress multisite installation and - of course - had to go and tweak the results. Then I had to do that on my multisite install.

How much work did I actually get done in the time I have dedicated to work? Updating two multisite networks, transferring my personal blog (Penny Full O'Thoughts) back to Blogger, and removing the template background so you can actually see the ShareThis widget floating to your left.

That's it.

It feels like I slacked off. I don't like feeling that way. Granted, I am a homeschooler and my son is my priority but when it's time to work, it's time to work.

My Daily Prayer Walk audio didn't get edited or posted. My posts didn't get edited. I didn't decide which site to upload our Travel Diary entries to (one of our existing or create a dedicated travel blog). The nature study packets for CJ's Kids Club Nature Kid membership vault didn't get edited either. *sigh*

Neener, neener, neener! My day was better than yours!

Tomorrow will be better, I just know it. I can't let Mr. Raccoon have the last laugh, can I?

Have fun, stay safe, and G-d bless,

Anonymous

Whassup?!

Yeah, I know that phrase got to be annoying as heck but it just seems to appropriate for this entry. You can't be mad at me though. I found a cute kitten pic just for you!

Although it seems like I've been gone for a long time, I really haven't. I was just wrapped up in my self-hosted WordPress version.

Until I accidentally crashed it.

Now, I'm debating whether I really want all the bother of self-hosted WordPress. True, the multisite installation totally rocks but I am not the same person I was a few months ago.

The WordPress and tech obsessed gal is still in there somewhere but now I'm all about streamlining and cutifying my life. I don't have a real need for all of the bells and whistles WordPress has and even if I did, there is probably a Blogger workaround for it.

Blogger is really more set-it-and-forget-it - something that really appeals to me now. I pay for it once a year, don't have to pay for plugins or upgrades, and don't have to worry about applying updates and how they will impact my code.

My WordPress installation broke because two of my main plugins didn't play well together. The last time that happened, I was S.O.L. because my host disappeared. Several months later, I still don't know what happened to her or the refund I asked for (prepaid fees).

This time, I have my own reseller account. I can go in and fix whatever is wrong myself but I just don't want to anymore. I'm not "just" another WordPress user. I am a mother, a homeschooler, a person with a life to live.

Yes, I know I could hire this out to someone but what's the point? I don't use most of the features anyway. I could save a lot of time, trouble, and money just by coming back to Blogger.
Which is why I'm here again.

Over the next few days, I plan to import my other posts on homescholing, traveling, camping, single parenting - life, in general - but for now, WHASSUP? How's it going? What have you been up to?

Have fun, stay safe, and G-d bless,

Anonymous