Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 135 Monday December 19th, 2011

‘Tis the season to be ____? Jolly? Grumpy? Generous? Festive? What kind of mood do the holidays produce in YOU?

This week on the Musing Mommies Podcast, Kim and Dawn take on the Holiday Spirit.  What does it mean? Do we all fall under it’s spell? And if not, how do we get there?

And what does it have to do with Dawn’s balls and Kim’s lips? Tune in to find out!

Until next time,

~Dawn and Kim

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LINKS- Zuppa Toscana | LIPS |

Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 87 Monday November 29th 2010

Hey there Musing Mommies listeners! Are you a penny pincher? Are you a tight wad? Are you a saver? Cheap? Thrifty? Do you scrape the last little bits of toothpaste out of the tube by prying it open and scooping it out? Do you rinse out the last of the coffee creamer from the container with hot coffee and pour it in your cup?

Just me? Oh, ok.

Listen in this week and discover if MuMos Kim and Dawn are really frugal, and how that works into the holidays and gift giving.

Until next time,
~Dawn and Kim

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Email: Kim or Dawn (at) musingmommies.com
Voicemail: 213-280-5327

Holiday Food 2010 Podcast Project participants:

The Because Show with Jerilyn, Susan & Amy “Like your friends in real life, but funnier”.

Naptime Radio Heather and Kate ‘keeping parents sane and entertained”.

Cooking With The Moms with the Meal Makeover Moms Janice and Liz.

K ‘n A Chat Cafe Two overworked, overstressed, overachieving moms, Kristin and Anamarie.

Two Fit Chicks and A Microphone the healthy living podcast with Shauna in Scotland & Carla in Texas.

The Stephanie and Greg Show Comedy talk radio show from married duo Steph & Greg.

Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 86 Monday November 22nd 2010

The Musing Mommies Kim and Dawn know that everyone is busy this week with traveling and merry making, but we just wanted to let you all know that we are so thankful for you and so blessed to have the most amazing fans and listeners!  We wish everyone a safe, happy and joyous week. May your belly, your glass and your heart stay full.

And if you need your weekly MuMo fix, listen in to this week’s show to hear about some of the other things we are thankful for!

It probably involves chocolate…

Until next time,
~Dawn and Kim

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Email: Kim or Dawn (at) musingmommies.com
Voicemail: 213-280-5327

Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 85 Monday November 15th 2010

What is big, fat, and waddles when it walks?

No, it’s not MuMo Dawn when pregnant! We’re talking TURKEY baby!

This week the Musing Mommies podcast gets into the holiday spirit and discusses the most important thing about Thanksgiving, the FOOD! Join us as we discuss everything from traditions to technique and all the recipes that make that beautiful day in November absolutely glorious!

Until next time,
~Kim and Dawn

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Email: Kim or Dawn (at) musingmommies.com
Voicemail: 213-280-5327

LINKS |Potato Casserole (except I use bread crumbs, not cereal)|Mystery Pecan Pie|Cornbread Stuffing|

Moms love HEB, and HEB loves MOMS!!

Once again, HEB has contacted the Musing Mommies and generously offered up an amazing prize for the Musing Mommies to give away, a $20 gift card to HEB!!

MuMo listeners know the Musing Mommies love HEB – we talk about it all the time!  If you have an HEB close to you (which, if you live in Texas – that’s pretty likely!), you know how convenient it is to shop for just about everything you could need.  With their amazing selection of groceries, party supplies, cards, housewares and home decor, HEB is a great “one stop shop”.  And just in time for Mother’s Day HEB has some great deals to help you make the moms in your life feel special.

Here are some of the amazing in store offers available right now:

• $3 Off Hand-Tied Bouquets or Floral Arrangements (in store coupon)
• Floral Combo Loco:  ‘Always In My Heart Bouquet’ bouquet with free vase
• Dipped Strawberries (available for a limited time)
• Gift Cards
• Buy $50 in gift cards, SAVE $5 on your next H-E-B purchase*! Offer valid from 4/28/2010 – 5/11/2010
• Fragrances starting at $19.99
• Buy any 3 Hallmark Expressions Card, get one free with in store coupon

Also, check out this great article from HEB, 10 Ways to Spend Mother’s Day.

Here’s how you enter!

To enter this giveaway you must first leave the Musing Mommies a review on iTunes.  Please leave a comment in this post telling us you did, and your iTunes profile name so we can identify you. If you have already left us an iTunes review in the past, just leave us a comment here telling us you did.

After your first, required entry, you may then enter a few more times by doing the following:

1. Leave a comment in this post telling Kim and Dawn what YOU want to do on Mother’s Day. (maybe we can pass along the ideas to our husbands!)

2. Leave a separate comment telling us how HEB can help you with your Mother’s Day planning and celebration.

3. follow us on Twitter or “like” us on Facebook.  Leave us a comment letting us know that you follow or like.

That’s it! Easy as pie! mmmm…..piiiiieeeee! lol!

Entries will be accepted until 8pm on MONDAY, MAY 10TH! That’s pretty quick so get crackin’!

Rules and Regulations:
Giveaway open to US residents 18 years old and older. Winner will be selected by random number selection on May 10th through Random.org.  Winner will be notified via email and/or announced on our next podcast. Our HEB contact will be responsible for prize fulfillment.

Happy Mother’s Day!
~Kim and Dawn

WOW Coffee with the CGs on the first day of a new year and a new decade?  What a way to start out! Welcome all. Come on in, grab a mug, and sit down to chat for a bit.  These past few weeks have gone by fast. Are the holidays really over? It kinda makes me sad that they are.  I don’t want to take my tree down and put the decorations away.  It’s going to look so bare  I guess that means I have to clean too.

The Musing Mommies are going to start something new. We are going to do our own type of small thing. On our Facebook fan page, we will list an organization tip or task for the day. You can do it or not it’s up to you, but we thought it would help us get a bit more organized and thought we’d share it with all of you.  Let’s make 2010 the year of organization.

What will we start with??? I guess you’ll have to come on by the fan page and see what the task will be.

I hope you all had a safe and happy new years eve and got plenty of sleep

~Kim

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a great New Year’s Eve.  We didn’t do anything here – I made a bunch of junk food and the kids went to bed at the usual time; they didn’t even know anything was special about the day.  Both kids are sporting a cold, thanks to my mom and her annual Christmas cold, so my oldest was up all night long (and therefor so was I. ugh).  He sounds awful, coughing and gagging and blowing snot everywhere.  The baby slept till way past his usual wake up time, or so I thought, until I went in his room and discovered he had no voice.  Poor thing, if he had been calling for me I didn’t hear it.

This year my goal is organization too, so I hope to be participating in the Small Things over at Rachel’s site more and also doing the Musing Mommies challenges.  The “new year” is such an interesting concept to me, and hopefully I can get a blog post out about it over on my personal blog.  If only I can get rid of this headache first…

Enjoy the coffee and the visit. I look forward to checking in over at your blog as well.

Best wishes for a FANTASTIC 2010!!

~Dawn

Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 41 Wednesday December 30th, 2009

Out with the old and in with the new! The Musing Mommies are saying adios to 2009 and hello good lookin’ to 2010!  After a great week of family, celebration, gifts and FOOD, Kim and Dawn wrap up the year with a mini show for your listening pleasure.  Listen in as we discuss New Year’s resolutions and what we look forward to in the coming year.

We hope you continue to join us each week in 2010, as we have so many great things in store. We lift our glasses in a toast to you, our loyal listeners! May 2010 be your best year ever!

Until next week,
Kim and Dawn

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Welcome girls! I’m tired. I could and would sleep for a long time. This week has done me in.  Let’s go back to last week shall we? Friday night was our Musing Mommies Cookie Exchange and holiday party.  We had a wonderful group of gals join us for some snacking and chatting.  It was a great start to the weekend. We had more cookies than we could handle. We also had more snacks than we could eat because MuMo Dawn tends to go crazy when making food for parties! But I’m not going to complain cause it was all yum!

Sunday was Party with my girlfriends, we ate, drank, played Pokeno (which I ended up winning the last pot), and KARAOKE!!! It was a blast.  But DH went outta town for 3 days so I was single mom and let me tell you it wears me out. I’m not used to it and I hope it never becomes a permanent thing.

This week was the last week of school until Jan 4th.  We had parties, Christmas programs and piano recitals! I was busy this week. Tonight we’re going to go see the trail of lights which is a tradition. It should be fun.

I hope you all are having a great week/end. Be Safe and Merry!

~Kim

Hey there Company Girls!
Well, my week wasn’t near as busy as Kim’s, but I am still exhausted – does that count?   The cookie exchange party was a blast, as was the other party Kim mentioned. I spent this week finishing up client orders, delivering prints and creating my own personal holiday card.  I got it in from the printer yesterday and I think it turned out great.  Is no one sending holiday cards this year? So far we’ve only received 1.  Maybe everyone is getting them out late like me.

So what kind of holiday card do you like?  Pictures, no pictures, year-in-review letter written by the dog or just a typical holiday greeting? Signed or not signed or does it matter?  I am curious to your preference!

Hope you have a great week and a wonderful Christmas! May Santa bring you everything you desire!

~Dawn

Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 37 Monday November 30th, 2009

You better watch out, you better not cry! You better not pout, I’m telling you why!  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas is now drawing near at hand, and the Musing Mommies Kim and Dawn want you to have yourself a merry little Christmas.  Do you hear what I hear?  Bells will be ringing and…

Well, you get the idea.  This week Kim and Dawn are talking about Christmas Music and Traditions.  Do you rock around the Christmas tree?  Do you go tell it on the mountain? Do go a wassailing?

{Sorry, I can’t help myself.}

Tune in to the Musing Mommies Podcast and find out what our favorite songs are, what traditions we have, and remember your childhood right along with us.  Come get in the spirit with the MuMos!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Until next time,
Kim and Dawn

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Welcome Company Girls and Other Beloved Readers!
It’s 10AM on Black Friday – Have you finished your holiday shopping yet?

Girl, I’m not even thinking about that stuff today!! I am still swimming in tryptophan! lol

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Ours was a whirlwind; after a completely sleepless night at my parents house (compliments of our 1 yr old’s all night scream-a-thon), we left early and drove almost 4 hours to my husband’s family in southern Louisiana.  Thankfully both boys slept most of the way; the baby catching up on the night’s lost sleep and the older boy in a benadryl induced snooze courtesy of some troublesome allergies.

It was a lovely drive.

Lunch was a big, beautiful, tasty blur, and afterward we headed over to my hubby’s grandmother’s house to visit with her for a bit.  At which time, I sat down in her chair and promptly passed out, sound asleep.

ahem.

So, I guess I didn’t get to visit much, but it was nice that my family just let me snore and drool for a brief, refreshing cat nap.  It was probably the one thing that allowed me to remain awake for the drive back to Houston that night.(with the help of a gigantic coffee…)

Oh yeah, almost 4 more hours in the car. Awesome!

The trip to Houston was a little more interesting.  The baby made sure to keep us all awake by screaming loud enough to shatter the windows every few miles.

Thankfully though, we didn’t hit any traffic, so it was an uneventful drive.  Though, we did have to stop at three different places to get gas before we left.  But that is a long story for another post.  I will most likely talk about it over on my personal blog, which will be up later today (after I catch up on a week’s worth of posting. ugh).

Kim will not be contributing today as she is on the road herself visiting family up in Dallas and Oklahoma.  But she sends her love.  …and some left over gravy.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to read about your holiday week.

Until,
Dawn

Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 36 Tuesday, November 23rd, 2009

It’s time to throw the diet out the window, pack the skinny jeans away for a while and get into the holiday season.  On this week’s podcast, Musing Mommies Kim and Dawn talk TURKEY!

…and everything else Thanksgiving.

Get out your stretchy yoga pants girls, Turkey day is upon us! It’s time to listen in because the MuMos have all the information you need to get your holiday started right.

Until next time,
Kim and Dawn

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Musing Mommies Podcast Episode 32, October 27, 2009

Hey there MuMos! The Musing Mommies are back this week with another exciting podcast!

This week Kim and Dawn take on 2 things that go hand in hand; like peanut butter and jelly, cake and ice cream, cinnamon and sugar, hamburgers and french fries…(I see a food theme here)

This podcast is about Pumpkins and Challenges!!

???

Maybe we should rethink that “going together” thing.

Ok, so they don’t exactly go together, but ’tis the season for both, right?  With exciting announcements, to-die-for recipes and personal reflections, this is a show you don’t want to miss.

Get your notepad out and get ready to jot some ideas down. This Musing Mommies podcast is loaded with tons of great info and opportunity for personal growth.  (and we don’t mean “growth” on the scale….or do we??) You’ll have to listen to find out!

Until next time,
Kim and Dawn

LINKS Pumpkin Nook|Mom Advice|Pioneer Woman

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