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Frugality For Famished Families, From Fawn
I love alliteration. ATTN CENTRAL ARKANSAS READERS If you haven’t picked up a copy of the June issue of Little Rock Family magazine, go get one! The magazine is free and you can usually find it at the front of your neighborhood Kroger. In addition to a listing of the 2010 Family Favorites poll results, there’s also a list of “24 places in Central Arkansas Where Kids Eat Free“, compiled by yours truly. The list is organized by day of the week, so if you plan it right, you can feed your kids for free every night! (The list is much prettier in print than online, so I recommend picking up a hard copy so you can tear out the list and keep it in the car, or in your purse.) If you … Read entire article »
Filed under: Frugal Fawn, Spending Less, Things to Do in Central Arkansas, Write & Blog
There's a Word for That: Snack Time Edition
Guess what Hibiscus plants and S’mores have in common? No really, guess. Marshmallows. What? Oh, yes! Of course, I will explain, in 200 words or less. You see, in one of my recent posts, I misspelled the word marshmallow. After being corrected by my friend Janet, I went to fix it, and got to wondering why it’s spelled “mallow” instead of “mellow”. Although the legend varies, the rough basics of it is that there was a dessert made from the root of a marsh mallow plant that was fluffy, and that when the plant root was replaced by a man-made syrup as an ingredient, the dessert also morphed into today’s sugar-on-sugar puffy treat, the marshmallow. Another version of the story claims that the confection we know as a marshmallow resembles the flower of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Homemaking, Mommyhood, There's a Word for That
Blog Green
It seems that everything we do has an impact on the environment, and Blogging is not to be excluded. It makes sense when you think about it: a blogger needs a computer to publish from and a server to publish to, and both of these electronics eat up energy. Consider this, from the website for 1 Blog, 1 Tree: “According to a study by Alexander Wissner-Gross, PhD, physicist at Harvard University and environmental activist, an average … Read entire article »
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A Note from Camp
(to the tune of “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”) Hello Mother, Hello Father. This Camp I’m at Is like no other. There are bloggers, and there developers. In order to learn CSS, I’m going to need lots of helpers! I need templates! I need downloads! I need something having to do with smooshy marshmallows. They’re all smart here and I’m a dummy they have ipads and think my not-smart phone is so funny. I can’t use analytics or custom plugins seems in WordPress, a self hosted blogs always wins. But I met some ladies who are also mommies and write blog posts about cooking, traveling, fitness, and potty. At the technology, they shake their heads. So I’m not the only blogger with SEO dread. They don’t care about vertical menus. The just want to know what kind of drinks will be at tonight’s venue! So it’s time now to get some dinner then to the after party, to see if I’m a swag winner. Life is good now, here … Read entire article »
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I'm Going to Camp!
WordCamp, that is. I’m all signed up and anxiously awaiting my trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas to attend WordCamp Fayetteville. WordCamp is a small conference for people who use the WordPress platform to blog (and/or do other more techie stuff that I don’t understand). WordCamps are held all over the country, but this is the first one in Arkansas. Other than clues that the names of the conference sessions give me, I have no idea what to expect. I won’t know anyone there. That really doesn’t bother me, except that I just hope I’m not the only one that doesn’t know how to code in HTML or why I get 20 hits a day on my blog for people searching for “fire ant”. I also hope no one laughs when I … Read entire article »
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There's a Word for That: Muggy
Muggy, Muggy, Muggy. It’s one of those words that’s just fun to say. Except when the air around you is muggy, and then you don’t want to have to breathe in enough air to say anything. It’s starting to get that way around here. We finally broke down and turned on the AC this evening. So, I always thought that muggy was a slangy-type term. Turns out, I was wrong. Muggy is defined in all the various dictionaries with only one definition: damp, humid, and close. The word Muggy is believed to have originated in the 1700’s, stemming from an old norse word, mugen, which means mist. So, “Muggy” is an official, technical term. (Strangely enough, an image search for “muggy” will give you pictures of teddy bears, remote control cars, and … Read entire article »
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