13 New Year food wishes for 2013

Happy New Year! I hope that 2013 has started off on a great note for you and your family. I’m excited to see what this new year will bring. I’m going (relatively) easy on the resolutions this year, since my theme for 2013 is “less is more”. I have been a list maker since I was a little girl though, so below are 13 things that are on my “food wish list” for 2013:

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Best of FCM 2012: Most Popular Blog Post

In my former life as a financial researcher/business analyst, I crunched numbers for a living so I rarely obsess over numbers these days. In fact, I don’t really look at my blog statistics in depth unless I’m working on a … Read More

Last Minute Gift Ideas: Subscription Gifts

I was thinking about putting together a few different gift guides – foodie, tech and miscellaneous things that I would love – but I decided against it. I already have everything that I need (and a lot of what I … Read More

Enhance the soundtrack to your life with SOL REPUBLIC headphones
(Review and $129.99 Value Giveaway)

Congrats to the winner: Migdalia

Work style: without makeup/undone hairstyle/bopping to the music

I love working from home. The post image is a reflection of how I spend a chunk of my day – listening to background music on my Macbook Pro while I research and write. Although I’m at home by myself, the walls in our home are thin, so I don’t want to bother my neighbors. That is why I wear headphones. For a while, I was listening to a music playlist on Pandora, but recently I have been listening to my “Daily Inspirations” playlist on YouTube. Every time that I hear an inspirational song that I like, I just add it to my playlist. I listen to the songs on a loop so that I can stay motivated! Anyway, SOL REPUBLIC recently reached out to me to see if I would like to do a review and giveaway of a pair of their headphones. Since I actually had new headphones on my holiday wish list (since I wear them so much and my poor old pair was getting worn out), I was happy to accept their offer.

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C’est magnifique! LES MISÉRABLES showcases the four types of love

les miserables review - four types of love

I have been wanting to write about LES MISÉRABLES since I attended the New York screening last month. After drying my eyes at the end of the movie, I left the theater thinking, “When everything is said and done, love really is the “dream”. As a dreamer by nature, it was so meaningful for me to walk away from a movie with a deeper realization that I’m already living “the dream”. I have the four kinds of love that the movie so vibrantly illuminates…

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The great thing about setting a goal…

…is that even if you miss it, you get better in the process. Last month, I set a goal to create an ebook in 30 days. Then, life happened. November was a doozy of a month filled with incredible highs … Read More

New Wreck-It Ralph Activity Sheets

Click to print the Wreck-It Ralph Cybug Maze sheet Click to print the Wreck-It Ralph Hidden Objects sheet Click to print the Wreck-It Ralph Spot the Differences sheet Wreck-It Ralph (affiliate) is still currently one of the “Top 10” movies … Read More

Inside the Lion King: A Free NYC Exhibit

Hakuna Matata! If you or your kids enjoyed The Lion King movie, then visit the free “Inside the Lion King” pop-up exhibit in midtown Manhattan. There, you will be able to see a variety of items from inside of the … Read More