I have wonderful news, Internets!! I am officially wearing matching socks. See? Because of the knee injury and resulting blood clot, I spent much of the past four months wearing a “compression sock”. This is a knee-high very snug (and uncomfortable!) creation that is not exactly….um….fashionable. Or comfortable. Just last week my doctor approved my [...]

Hello friends. Do you remember my post about Ronzoni Smart Taste Pasta recently? All of us here at Earnest Parenting were treated to two boxes of the pasta, and we conducted a very serious* blind taste test. The result? We all thought the Ronzoni tasted just like our everyday white pasta, which is neat because [...]

Hey Internets! I got a fun opportunity last week to be part of a contest sponsored by the fine folks at Ronzoni Pasta. They’ve got a line of pasta called Ronzoni Smart Taste which I cooked up and served to all my boys last week. The fun part was doing it as a blind taste [...]

Welcome, UBP visitors! So glad you’ve decided to stop by. My name is Amy, and I’ll be your host here at Earnest Parenting. Basically we write about….parenting here. Betcha didn’t see THAT coming, did you? I’m the homeschooling mother of two sets of twin boys that alternately drive me crazy and keep me laughing. Earnest [...]

Do you recall when I told you about the DreamBox Video contest? I’ve been learning more about the program and boy howdy is it neat! Dreambox is a learning site that teaches math to children in kindergarten, first, and second grades. Children play games, and the software responds to create an individualized learning path based [...]

Hullooooo, Internets! Remember the Blog Hop we did a few weeks ago? Well, another fantastic MckLinky feature is a weekly Blog Hop Giveaway in which you are treated to a loooooong list of giveaways online. Is that cool or what?? I may have mentioned once or twice, but I enjoy doing giveaways. Anyhoo, here’s the [...]