Brandy’s Life's Archives

Get a personal glimpse into the life of Brandy Ellen, a NH Mom Blogger, who is raising three kids the best she can while juggling work at home among other things. Brandy thrives best when surrounded by optimistic, positive lifestyle friends. Learn more about what she’s up to today by reading a bit of Brandy’s Life.

How Win The Battle of Teeth Brushing with Children

Each evening, when the sky has turned dark and it’s time to start the ever lasting bedtime routine with the kiddos, it seems there is more than one argument going on about bedtime routine but the most important task that needs to be completed seems to be the worse battle of my day as a parent; teeth brushing. What’s more worse? The morning battle to get the kids to brush their teeth before school. Image courtesy of Naypong / FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you have children who battle you about teeth brushing, then maybe my tips will help you get your kids to start brushing their teeth twice a day {at least} to ensure they don’t suffer from tooth decay. Here are my tips on what not to do and what to …

Keep Your Family Safe with LifeLock

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of LifeLock Facebook for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. As a professional work from home woman, I am on LinkedIn often to network and find jobs as well as get referrals to others who may be seeking to utilize my virtual assistant skills, but recently I grew quite alarmed when I found out that about 10.1% of those faced with identity theft have it occur through LinkedIn. Along with that 10.1%, there is a rate of 6.6% for those who own smartphones as having a chance of getting their identity stolen. With our technologically driven world, everything is online, from bill pay to social media and it seems the more we get involved with putting ourselves out there online, …

Can’t These Kids Shut off Electronics and Lights??

My children used to be so good about shutting off lights when leaving a room, they were never really all that great about shutting off the television but now that I am noticing the lights that get left on, sometimes overnight, I am putting down the hammer and trying to remind these little children to shut off the lights. I read an article a while back in Parents magazine about something another Mom did to help encourage lights out, while it was a creative idea it wouldn’t work for my youngest who thinks at age four the world revolves around him. I am forced to just put down the hammer and remind, remind, remind. Which of course is similar to nagging which I despise, but if it helps keep the …

I Became Guilty of Being Somewhat Lazy

I guess using the word lazy isn’t really fair when you think about being Mom to three kids and working from home, but it’s the only word I could really think of to describe the habit I got into for a long time. You see, over the years my daughter’s Dad just sort of handled everything. I got into the habit that he was great at being in control so why bother? Then as my daughter got older and we formed a closer bond of communication, I found out that she didn’t really want me to take the “back burner” anymore. I must start off by explaining a bit of a back story as to why it was just easier for me to let him take care of everything for …

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