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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...]

Happy birthday! Love, NETFLIX

October 20, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Family Fun, Motherhood, Special Events 1 Comment

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!   It all started with a box.   A box about which we were very curious. Call me clever (which would be nice) but I quickly surmised it was a gift from … [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...]

A Prayer for Parents who Worry too Much

September 6, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Motherhood, Spiritual Growth 3 Comments

Or: On Being Intentional About What We Watch Yesterday  I woke up feeling fretful—about my kids, about their safety...and so I did something that almost always helps: I drank a fifth of vodka and went back to bed. (Totally kidding! In truth, I’m currently taking a break from booze.) What I did do was go to daily Mass, and while there  I … [Read more...]

Summer Stamping with Netflix #StreamTeam Passports

July 26, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Family Fun, Reviews Leave a Comment

Disclosure: As a member of the Netflix Stream Team I receive special perks in exchange for my participation. As always, all opinions are my own!   Okay, I'll be the first to admit it: The month of July's becoming excessively balmy. "Go play outside," I tell my kids, and yet inevitably they sneak back in...mere minutes seconds … [Read more...]

13 Reasons Why I Watch TV with My Teens…

July 2, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Cultural Commentary, Honest Blogging, Reviews 2 Comments

...and Why We WON'T Be Watching 13 Reasons Why Warning: This post is not for everyone, as it addresses some hard cultural topics like suicide, rape and homosexual sex. True, I often aspire to be a lighthearted Erma Bombeck-esque blogger.  This is not, however, one of those times. I am a very modern mom in that I am constantly telling my teens to … [Read more...]

The Simple Woman’s Daybook

April 7, 2017 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: #StreamTeam, Gratitude, Motherhood, Special Events 10 Comments

The post-Chicago Edition This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend Barbara, who asked me to write a post about LIFE. It was inspired by Peggy's blog, where the daybook idea originated. For Today I am happy to be back in this space. I miss blogging dearly—I miss the connections—and I am getting close to maybe (please, God) finding a … [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...]

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