Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 111 Monday June 20th 2011

Happy Father’s Day to all the MuMo dads out there! The Musing Mommies, Kim and Dawn, hope you had a wonderful day and made lots of great memories with your families.  This week on the Musing Mommies podcast, Kim and Dawn catch up on the last couple of weeks and also take some time to speak with an amazing father and daddy blogger, Brandon Duncan! Listen in as Brandon introduces us to his blogs, his writing and his family. And when we are through, cruise on over to his website, brandontheduncan.com and check out his work for yourself!

Also, check out the links below for MuMo Dawn’s Hubby’s pics from their anniversary getaway.

Until next time,

~Dawn and Kim

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LINKS | Brandon Duncan | Team Duncan | Stanley Marsh |MuMo Dawn Caddilac Ranch | MuMo Dawn Route 66 |

Mmmm on this chilly morning (64 degrees) a nice warm mug of Green Tea with Hazelnut creamer hits the spot!  Can’t you just feel that yummy goodness slide down that dry rough sleepy throat and coat the stomach perfectly?  I sure can.

Ah, Friday I love you!  It’s the start of the weekend.  Fun Friday, as we refer to it, is upon us.  The kids are at school. I’ve gotten some much needed house work checked off of my list.  I’ve eaten a good helping of leftovers for lunch and managed to paint my toenails a bright October-esque ORANGE!  hee hee hee. I love matching my toes to the season/holiday!  In a few hours I will pick up the kids, take DD to swim practice and we will get a fun Friday treat from somewhere. Then we’ll play for the rest of the day.

Tomorrow is a big day for DD. It’s her first ever swim meet!  This past week she moved up in Swim.  She is now a Bronze Team member. Woo Hoo. We are not sure what exactly to expect tomorrow since we’ve never been to a meet before.  But I expect it will be a great learning experience for both DD and her parents. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to act. Am I to cheer like crazy or do I sit quietly and critique? I guess I’ll just observe what everyone else is doing and then go with that!  Not sure I’ll be able to contain myself from a bit of cheering, just think Roseanne style! I will for sure have my camera though. DD and DS have their own Paparazzi.

Wish us luck this weekend!

~Kim

Hey there Company Girls!

The coffee will be hot all day today I am afraid – I have been up since 3:53 this morning. The baby is trying to make this early rising thing a Friday tradition! I am not liking it one bit!  He went down for a nap too early for me to nap too – so I puttered around in the garden for a while.  That was so nice – the temp outside is absolutely perfect! I love days like this!

So this week I’ve planted lettuce, spinach, onion and carrots and hopefully will finally finish planting for the fall with some garlic this week. I need to find some organic first. Everything is doing pretty great – I already have broccoli sprouts and the brussel sprout seeds I replanted a couple of weeks ago are slowly coming in too. Hopefully I can get it all going strong soon. Last night we had a bit of a hail storm and I was worried about my outside babies, but it appears they all weathered it just fine.

Well, I think I used up all my brain power for the moment, so I will go take a break. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!
Dawn

Howdy Girls! I’ve been trying to think up a good post/story for you all day. Not sure I’ve got anything but here it goes.

I’m hormonal! LOL.  I’m all over the place this week and it’s not quite PMS time.  What gives?   I think this MuMo is going to get a hormone panel done ASAP.  One day I’m great, happy, excited, rarin to go and the next nuthin!  UGH.  I don’t like this part of getting older. I’m not used to the sweating and craziness that these hormones are doing to me.  Anyone have any natural remedies that might help out? I’m all ears at this point.  I guess I’ll know more once I have my hormones checked.  Geez!  I feel like “I AM WOMAN hear me… eh forget it!”.  That’s me in a nutshell this week. I hope you all have had a better time of it than I have!  Here’s to the weekend.

Hello Company Girls!
MuMo Dawn here – *yawn*. Oh excuse me! I am so sleepy! If you went over to Frymoments you’ll know why.   Anyway – it’s the end of the day and I am just about to start cooking. I think tonight we will be having some fried chicken, mashed potatoes and fried okra – YUM! It’s one of my favorite meals! Feel free to join us.

Today went pretty well considering how tired we all are.  I attempted to take a nap while the baby was napping, but every 15 minutes or so something (or someone) would disturb me.  After an hour I gave up.  I decided to use the time outside in the garden instead. I put out a little bit of bug b gone stuff and then fed the garden with a fish emulsion spray.  Little did I know my dog would find the scent appealing (it smelled a lot like dead fish and poo to me!) and when I was out of site she jumped the fence and walked all through my garden bed. I am so mad at her!!! She trampled a couple of my baby plants – a tomato and a couple of jalapeno pepper babies. ugh.  So, I guess I need to put up some better fencing or bring her inside whenever I feed the plants.  I went back out about an hour later though and the plants were going nuts! My zucchini were suddenly reaching for the heavens and the rest of the plants looked a couple of inches taller! I guess they were hungry. lol

I also had some time to pot a couple of baby pineapple plants I’ve been cultivating in my kitchen.  I think out of the 4, 2 have a good shot of taking off.  I already have another on my back porch and am hoping it will produce a pineapple this year. Wouldn’t that be the coolest thing?!? I can’t wait! I also have an avocado I need to pot, but I ran out of pots.  Back to the garden center I go!

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Thanks for stopping by!
~Dawn

Hello girls (and any guys out there)!  I’ve been looking forward to coffee and chat today.  Thanks for stopping by and checking in on us!

I must say that this week has been a pretty good one!  Last weekend was nice an quiet with DH coming home Saturday from a business trip and then hanging out with him.  We missed him while he was gone.  Monday the MuMos had an awesome interview with Julie Kenner, author of many books but most know her for her demon hunting soccer mom series!  If you are interested in our podcast with that interview I invite you to scroll down or click here: Episode 26.  It was so much fun to get to pick her brain about writing and being Mommy at the same time.  There’s a lot that goes into it that I didn’t know about.

The rest of the week has gone fairly smoothly.  With DD making the all school musical, Willy Wonka Jr, I’ve had to rearrange our after school schedule. It’s all worked out well so no complaints there.  It’s really weird having her at school until 5 a few days a week.  But I think this will be a great learning experience for her. I hope she does well when it comes performance time.  I hope my stage fright hasn’t passed on to her.

I have a birthday celebration to attend this weekend for one of my close girlfriends and it’s going to be a great night!  I hope she has a great, wonderful, fantabulous, birthday!  Happy Birthday Shan!

I’ll be checking in on the rest of you all and I hope you all have a great weekend!

~Kim

Hey there Company Girls!

I’ve had a pretty good week here too.  Lots of photography work, and awesome interview with Julie on Monday night and good times with the kids.  I have been tending my fall garden and I just discovered today that I have little tiny black beans and lima beans growing!!! yay!! I am so excited – the neighbors probably thought I was crazy squealing and jabbering on like a little girl to the plants in my back yard.  I get so nutty when I see baby veggies growing…and yes, I talk to my plants. (hangs head in shame)

Next week I am off to Houston again to photograph newborn twin girls and I am beyond excited!! The traveling is going to make the whole week crazy, but I am too thrilled for the opportunity to care.  I love what I do! And, since the holidays are just around the corner (yes, yes they are!) I think I am pulling out the Christmas music.  yup.  I am one of “those” people! lol

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and a fabulous week! Thanks for stopping by!
~Dawn

A couple of shows ago we talked about going green and doing more for the environment.  Since that show I have been trying to find a way to set up a compost bin in my back yard.  Unfortunately, everything I found seemed either complicated or expensive, two things I don’t have the time or money for.  I had pretty much given up until a friend pointed me here.

The container, simple and cheap.  The process, so easy a couple of kids could do it (and did!).  This is my kind of DIY project! Check it out! For just a few bucks, you can do something good for the environment AND enjoy an unlimited supply of rich compost soil for your yard or garden.

It’s time to get down and dirty!

~Dawn