Meet Dawn, our twelfth MOMumental Mom of the week. Name: Dawn City: Richardson Marital Status: married Mom to: Two sons, 6 and 4 years old. Occupation: Owner, Dawn Michelle Photography (www.DawnMichellePhoto.com) What was the last movie you saw and what did you think about it? *Vicky Christina Barcelona,...

In Sunday’s Plano Star Courier, the front page headline was: “Stay-at-Home Moms Turn Entrepreneurs.” And guess who was one of the four featured Moms?!? Yours truly….and Moms Out Loud! Please click the headline above and read the article. It is inspirational, even if you are...

I saw a very cute greeting card several weeks ago, with a very simple message on the front: “Is a Tangerine Really an Orange that Didn’t Try Hard Enough?” As a newly minted Mompreneur, riding the emotional roller coaster of entrpreneurship, I made a mental note of that comment, swearing...

I recently read a fascinating article in one of my favorite magazines, Wondertime (which, by the way, is unfortunately also owned by Disney – who, like Wal-Mart, will own the world one day – if they don’t already), that a mom wrote about her life with a gifted son. In the sidebar,...

Life with toddlers. It’s so simple, really. For them. Their world is pretty much black and white. They have no hidden agendas (or at least ones so hidden that an adult can’t pretty easily figure them out). They have two speeds: high gear (for running on the playground and eating birthday...

Today is the first day we go out to officially “sell” MomsOutLoud.com. What that means is I have a meeting with a potential advertiser, and instead of only getting feedback on my media kit (I did tell you all that I really like feedback, right?!), I am taking a contract and am going to...

Last week, I decided I couldn’t handle this new itinerant work style and set up a home office at my parent’s house. I have taken pride in being self-sufficient since I was in college, so this was quite a reversal for me; I never thought I’d be moving back in with my parents, even if...

There is an old parable I’ve heard many times about the importance of perspective. It describes how three stonecutters, doing the same exact task, viewed their job completely differently and how their perspective made a huge difference in their personal happiness and motivation. It goes something...