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
Review of One Plus One: A Book By JoJo Moyes
So here it is. My review of One Plus One by JoJo Moyes... American audiences have fallen in love with JoJo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth...
Kickin’ It Old School at Spinster Records
Nothing sounds quite like an old record playing on a record player! Right?? It's seems a little crazy that most of us sold our record players a long time ago to "upgrade" to a cassette player. Looking back on my decision to follow in the footsteps of everyone else,...
The Panasonic Lumix – A Wonderfully Affordable Waterproof Camera
UPDATE on my Panasonic Lumix Waterproof Camera: Just an update to let you know that after sitting on my camera shelf for quite some time, the Panasonic Lumix is still one of my favorite cameras. We took it to the pool for the first time this summer season and had...
San Diego Zoo – Painting Snake Cages??!! Is That Really A Job??
Okay...so I'll just tell you first off, that the San Diego Zoo is an amazing place. I will be blogging about it soon, but before I get to the zoo and how amazing it is, I just had to put out a short post about the most insane job that I had never seen in action...
Time for Kids and Some Great Inventions…
One of the many things I enjoyed about teaching 4th graders was all the fun and exciting things I got to read with them. One of my favorites was our Time for Kids magazine. It was a small magazine about current events and news stories geared towards children with a...
Review of The Eye of Minds: A Book by James Dashner
So here it is. My review of The Eye of Minds by James Dashner... The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and the more hacking skills you have, the more fun it is. Why bother following the rules when it’s so easy to break them? But some rules were made for a...
Under the Lights…A Tough Shot for this Beginner
Taking pictures "under the lights" at night at my son's baseball game was a difficult task to say the least... However, I was able to get some pretty good pictures (I think)! I really had to adjust my thinking though - I had become so spoiled shooting my children's...
Geocaching? What in the World is Geocaching?
Geocaching? Really? My son came to me the other day and asked me if I knew what Geocaching was. Geocaching. Hmmm...what is Geocaching? I wanted to sound cool, so I sort of answered him based on what my sister had told me many years ago about her experiences...
Searching for Harry Potter…
Ever since I read all of the books in the Harry Potter Series series, I have been searching for a series (or trilogy) that captures my attention like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (and all the other books) did! I began reading the Harry Potter books back when...
Throne of Glass Review: A Book by Sarah J. Mass
So here it is. My Throne of Glass review... In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in...