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Stranger Things & Scary Smartphones: Part II

February 10, 2018 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Family Fun, Motherhood, Spiritual Growth 2 Comments

How a Hit #Netflix Series is Helping me Parent This is a 3-Part Series on the Need to Establish Smartphone Monitoring, including (but not limited to) a Stranger Things list of what to do and NOT do. (You can read Part I HERE.) Okay, okay, I get it. Part 1 was written eight years ago and you're thinking...What the heck, Margaret?! Why's … [Read more...]

Download Netflix for Holiday Road Trips: the Ultimate Travel Hack

December 23, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Netflix, Reviews Leave a Comment

This post is sponsored by Netflix and their incredibly helpful and awesome collection of  TV shows and movies that you can download and watch on the go.    My 8-year-old greets me each morning with a countdown: “Only ‘x’ more days until Christmas, Mom!” For him, this happy feast couldn’t come fast enough. For me, however? I could … [Read more...]

Stranger Things Season 2: A NETFLIX Give-Away

October 24, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Family Fun, Give-Aways, Netflix, Reviews 2 Comments

Disclosure: As a member of the Netflix Stream Team I receive special perks in exchange for my reviews & blog posts. As always, all opinions are my own!   For me to burn through three episodes of a series {with} my three teen-aged daughters on a {Friday} evening during the break? There have been stranger things. We are only … [Read more...]

Boots in the House! A Brief Debriefing with More to Come

October 19, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Blogging, Motherhood, Special Events 3 Comments

He’s home. My newly-minted Marine is home, and what I want is to talk your ear off! You’ve got two ears, assumedly—it’s okay if I have one of them, right? Because I have at least five different blog posts that have been waiting less than patiently for this Marine mom to get home from the USMC graduation, which was last Friday (the 100th … [Read more...]

Our Daughters, their Dads, Our Sons, Ourselves

March 31, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Cultural Commentary, Motherhood, My Girls 2 Comments

A Briefish Treatise on Movie Role Models Margaret the Blogger is back (one month later!) with yet another #StreamTeam review.   Sheesh. You’d think I’d pop in more often than this. It’s almost like I’m in college again, with this #StreamTeam gig my monthly term paper. I’m writing this hastily…my March review…on the last day of March … [Read more...]

That Time that Netflix Gave Me the Finger

March 1, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Cultural Commentary, Minnesota Me 9 Comments

Warning: This post contains two extremely gory images from the zombie comedy "The Santa Clarita Diet". If blood and dismemberment are offensive to you, as they are to me, you may want to click away. That said, I include these images to make my point. Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Netflix Stream Team, which means that I get a year's worth of … [Read more...]

Is there Room on your Broom?

October 30, 2016 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Family Fun, Netflix 1 Comment

A Mini-Meditation on How to Have... It is Saturday evening as I type this. My children are hopped up on plenty of sugar, having gone to an All Saints' party hosted by People of Praise.  "Sticked up," was the phrase my 3-year-old used, meaning...I think...sticky from ingesting an excess of candy. 'Tis the season to be sticked up. 'Tis very … [Read more...]

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