Ball Cap Mom Blog
Blogging is one of the crazy joys in life.
““Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” – Andrew Sullivan
The Greatness of the YETI Tumbler
Okay...a while back when I discovered the plastic Cool Gear tumblers with a straw, I thought I was enjoying one of the greatest things ever. That is...until my friend gave me my first Yeti Tumbler. When I received it (as a Christmas gift), I thought...
Photographing Fireworks…A Beginner’s Experience…
So...the 4th of July has come and gone again, and I worked on capturing good shots of fireworks...again. It's a lot harder than I thought. However, this year, I read through several articles before I headed out with my camera to see what I could capture. The first...
Review of The Crown of Midnight: A Book by Sarah J. Maas
The second installment in the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series… “A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached. It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.” The Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas picks up where...
Unlocking the Greatness of Minecraft
Minecraft! That's all I heard about for 6 months when my son, Zach was in Kindergarten. After 6 months of non-stop chatter about wanting (and needing) Minecraft, my husband and I finally gave in and downloaded it for him on my desktop computer. We did some research...
Building Sand Castles… An Activity I Happily Pass On To Daddy…
Sand castles! Always one of our favorite activities when we come to the beach. Or is it? We always have this romantic idea of all sitting together in the sand building a giant sand castle - with towers, and walls, and seashells decorating the entrance to the...
Photographing Spider Webs – Much Harder Than I Thought…
With sleep in my eyes, I stumbled to the back door early one morning to let my dogs out. With my bleary eyes, I could barely see the beautiful spider web hanging from my arbor on my patio in the backyard. It was so pretty - the sunlight was behind it and it just...
Amazon’s Brick and Mortar Store…We Need One in Allen!!!
Amazon's brick and mortar store!?? Yes please...I'll take one right here in Allen! And soon - before my kids are all grown and don't want to go to the bookstore with me anymore! When I was growing up in Dallas, one of the things I did with my allowance money was...
Don’t Miss These Great Summer Reads…
Now...I haven't read all of these books, but I thought you might be interested in some of the titles. Hoping to find some time to read the ones I do have stacked on my Nightstand, and I'm also hoping to add a few of them to my Kindle or my Nightstand stack soon! I'm...
Tinker Crates…A Toy for the Young Scientist in Your House!
So...an advertisement for Tinker Crates kept coming through my Facebook feed asking whether or not I had a young scientist in my house, and I would just look at it briefly, think "How cool," and scroll right on past it. One day, there was a video that started playing...
My Favorite “Purse Camera” – – The Small & Perfectly Compact Olympus OM-D E-M5 II
For many years, I nagged my husband again and again saying I needed what I called a "purse camera." I LOVE my Canon 5D-Mark III, but there are times when so much is going on, that I wish that I had a small camera that would just fit into my pocket (or my purse)....