Sparkplugging is the proud parent of a brand new baby Blog Meme:  Spark an Idea Thursday. The idea is to get some idea juices flowing around a different topic each week – first here on the Sparkplugging blogs, then blossoming out in the blogosphere. We kicked things off this week with this topic: Spark an [...]

Can’t. Stop. Giggling. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year from Staples via @BarbaraJones.

Is there any better office space than at home? Think about it. With a home office, there’s no commuting – which saves time, stress and money. Working from home means you can have lunch with your kids every day. It means you can take a half-hour and roll around with them in the yard. And [...]

I am taking the morning off today & taking my kids who are on spring break to the zoo. I’m finding more and more lately that leaving my home office to either get out of the house (or even go clean other parts of the house!) has been pretty critical to my ability to think [...]

TLC launched a new show last night called The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom. They are finding women who have been stay at home moms for several (many?!) years, and giving them a shot to ‘go back in time’ and regain the dream careers they left behind to raise their families. Now, I’m not [...]

With about 10 inches of snow on the ground this morning, and no end in sight to the downfall of coldness, my kids were ecstatic when they heard the phone ring at 6:00am this morning. My teenager yells “SNOW DAY” from the shower, and immediately my other two little ones were out of bed an [...]

If you have ever seen the presentation Shift Happens, then you, like me, likely lose sleep over the fact that our educational system really isn’t set up to teach our children real-life business and entrepreneurial skills. Take a look at a few facts from the movie: The top 10 jobs we will have in 2010 [...]