If this is your first visit to the Focused Moms Challenge, read our introduction post before getting started. It's Week Three of the Focused Moms Challenge, and we've made it to the half way point!  Last week we learned how to unplug a little, so that we could increase our family time and decrease our screen time.  Do you know what most of us learned?  While we were starting to unplug, our kids ... read more

I can't believe we're already finishing up Week Two of the Focused Moms Challenge!  We've reached the halfway mark, and I'm so proud of each and every one of you!  This week, our challenge was to "Cut off your cell phone and headphones while in the roadway" (aka, UNPLUG!).  Talk about a challenge!  I had no idea how hard this would be.  No idea whatsoever.  But it sure was! My picture for the ... read more

No day for me would be truly wordless, but I'll try to keep this one brief since it's a Wordless Wednesday post!  On Tuesday, I was having a tough time making it through day two of the Focused Moms Challenge Week Two (UNPLUG!).  I had cut out all talking on the phone AND computer use from the time my children got home from school until the time they went to sleep.  I was having withdrawals.  So, I ... read more

If this is your first visit to the Focused Moms Challenge, read our introduction post before getting started. Welcome back!  We made it through our first week of the Focused Moms Challenge and now it's time to go full speed ahead into Week Two.  In Week One we put up a few reminders to keep us from getting off task in our parenting and set up some obstacles for ourselves to make our distractions ... read more