December 15th, 2008 — Community Outreach, Linsey from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
I grew up with parents who gave back to their community on a very regular basis - food drives, volunteering at the recycling center, serving dinner at the homeless shelter, doing the heavy lifting to help set up whatever, whenever….
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November 27th, 2008 — Home life, Linsey, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Traveling, thanksgiving from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Ah, Thanksgiving. 7 kids and 7 adults are packed like sardines in my sister’s house on Thanksgiving Eve. Oh, actually there are only 5 adults in the house, as my parents brought their “honeymoon suite,” their RV which is a…
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November 12th, 2008 — Book Club, Michelle Lamar, Mom challenges, School thoughts, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Survival tips, The White Trash Moms Handbook, school aged years from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Here we are at book club again at Silicon Valley Moms Group, as announced last week, and Silicon Valley Moms Blog is hosting. Today, we are talking about The White Trash Mom Handbook, authored by our own Michelle Lamar from…
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November 7th, 2008 — Book Club, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, The White Trash Moms Handbook from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Join us next Wednesday, November 12th as the writers on Silicon Valley Moms Blog and our sister sites discuss the book, The White Trash Moms Handbook, authored by our own Michelle Lamar from Deep South Moms Blog. About The White…
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October 31st, 2008 — Home life, Linsey, The Economy, money from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Since starting to spend less money over the past month, my husband and I have been very pleased to rediscover that we really don’t need All That. Stuff. Dining Out. New Shiny Things. Extra Things. More, More, More. We can…
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October 1st, 2008 — Linsey, School thoughts, Survival tips, preschool, twins from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Last spring, when moms of the preschoolers in my 4-year-old twins’ class began talking about what next year’s class would be like, some of them mentioned carpools as a way to make things a bit easier. I nodded along, but…
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September 30th, 2008 — Linsey, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, economic crisis, financial crisis, frugal, money from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
The recent financial crisis has hit our family in a big way. Not directly - we don’t work on Wall Street. But Silicon Valley tech is not immune and we are nervous, to say the least. We have been tightening…
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August 27th, 2008 — Exercise, Linsey, Mom challenges, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Working, back to school, preschool, twins from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Often I hear about summer ending, school starting again and moms having more time to themselves as a result, since their kids having been home all summer long. Well…that isn’t going to be the case for our family. For us,…
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August 12th, 2008 — Home life, Linsey, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Working, office space, twins, virtual work, work from home from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
I have worked from my home, with no office and with the minimization of paper and supplies since my twins were born 4 years ago. “Virtually,” some might say - a certain buzz word that has sprung up recently that…
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July 14th, 2008 — Ana, Community Outreach, Courtney, Exercise, LIVESTRONG Challenge, Lance Armstrong, Linsey, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, cancer, events, mothers with cancer, running from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Yesterday, the Silicon Valley Moms team (consisting of myself, Ana and Courtney) from the Silicon Valley Moms Blog met up for the Livestrong Challenge 5K Walk/Run in San Jose. No, it was not 2000 miles, like our fellow Silicon Valley…
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July 11th, 2008 — Apple, Linsey, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Tech talk, Working, iPhone from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Ever since last summer, when my little family went to the annual week-long 4th of July trip with my in-laws at a little lake near Tahoe and I stayed back at the RV with all 3 kids (all 3 years…
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June 16th, 2008 — Book Club, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Writing Motherhood from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
It is book club time again at Silicon Valley Moms Group. New Jersey Moms Blog will be hosting this time around as we take inspiration from the book Writing Motherhood by the amazing author Lisa Garrigues. This book is very…
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June 10th, 2008 — Linsey, Mom challenges, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, twins from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
Summer is here and, with it, questions about what we will be doing in lieu of preschool for our 4-year-old boy-girl twins. Like some friends of ours, we haven’t signed up for summer school (because we do a co-op preschool…
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May 24th, 2008 — SF Mom Map from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
April 20th, 2008 — SF Mom Map from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
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March 26th, 2008 — Linsey, Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Traveling from Linsey K / KrolikLegal @ Silicon Valley Moms Blog
My husband and I are headed to Tahoe this weekend BY OURSELVES! We haven’t gone away for a weekend - or even a night - in almost 5 years now….well, I take that back. We did go away for a…
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