Melissa E.
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- 4 Kids & A Large Coffee
- A Day in the Wife
- A Modern Mother
- A Perfectly Cursed Life
- Adventures in Extreme Parenthood
- Adventures In Florida
- Adventures in Toulouse
- Airing My Laundry, One Post At A Time...
- alabaster cow
- All Home Cooking: Weight Watchers Style
- All The Weigh
- alyciaestok – alyciaestok
- An American Mommy in Paris
- an army of ermas
- Antique Mommy
- Ask Moxie
- Awful Library Books
- Babyrazzi - Celebrity Baby Blog & Pregnancy News
- Bacon Is My Lover
- Badass Geek
- Because I Said So - The official web site of author and mom blogger Dawn Meehan
- Because my life is fascinating
- BentoLunch.net - What's for Lunch at Our House
- BettyHerbert.com
- BloggingDangerously
- Blurbs from the Burbs
- Bottom of the Class
- But Wait! There's More...
- Bye Bye, Pie!
- C'est La Vie
- Cake Wrecks
- Calamity, Kids and Other Stuff
- Coloring Outside The Lines - A Mom's Perspective On Challenging Kids To Think With Humor
- Confessions
- Craftastrophe
- Crazy with a side of Awesome Sauce
- CrazyAuntPurl
- Crissy
- Cupcake Muffin
- David Lebovitz
- Dead Class Pets
- Diary of A Surprise Mum
- dooce®
- Fact-esque
- Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project
- Fix Me A Snack
- Food Politics
- formerlyhot.com
- From Seed to Jar
- Frugal Fabulousness
- Gardening Without Skills
- Go Fug Yourself
- HappyChyck Wonders
- Havoc and Mayhem
- HEY NATALIE JEAN
- Hip As I Wanna Be
- HisBoysCanSwim
- Home Grown 1
- I used to be a perfect mom...then I had a baby.
- Incense & Peppermints
- ivy league insecurities
- Jenn's Gardening Spot
- Jillian Inc.
- Kindergarten's 3 Rs: Respect, Resources and Rants
- LaLaGirl * Twinfinite Chaos
- Lamebook
- Laundry Hurts My Feelings
- Learn Me Good
- leg's life
- Live and Love...Out Loud
- Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Madness and Beauty
- Mae Bird
- Mama's Losin' It
- Mamma's Happy Hour
- Married My Sugar Daddy
- marta writes
- Mayor Gia
- Michelle Woo
- Mom Zombie
- Mom-101
- Mom-In-A-Million
- Momasaurus Rex
- Mommy of a Monster and Twins
- Mommy Shorts
- Mommy Wants Vodka
- Mommypants
- More is Better
- MrsBlogAlot.com
- MummyTime
- My Comfy Escape
- My Lovely Lady Bump
- MY MILK TOOF
- My So Called Life
- NiceGirlNotes
- NieNie Dialogues
- No Ordinary Rollercoaster
- Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes
- Notes from the School Psychologist
- notes on paper
- Old Tweener
- One day this blog will have a snazzy name » Goodbye 2010, you bitch.
- One Foot in Front of the Other
- onecharmingparty.com
- Optical Optimism
- parentwin
- Peanut butter in my hair- Stories of Life, Love and Loss
- PhD in Parenting
- picklebums.com
- Pitter Pats of Baby Cats
- Posh Projects
- Postcards from the Past
- Project Supermom
- Promtacular!
- Que Sera Sera: Give us Barabbas
- Rage Against the Minivan
- RANTS FROM MOMMYLAND
- Recovering Californian
- SarahViz.com
- Scary Mommy
- Science@home
- Screaming Fat Girl
- She Used To Walk Fast
- Sleep is for the Weak
- Slimming Down to Sexy...Eventually
- Smile Steady
- Sneaker Teacher
- Strocel.com
- style rookie
- Surviving and thriving in Mom-dom
- Taming Insanity
- Teaching Ain't For Heroes
- Texas Word Tangle
- That Is Priceless
- The 52 Seductions
- The Billfold
- The Blog of Diminishing Returns
- The Daily Dribbles
- The Daily Mayhem
- The Empty Kitchen
- The Everyday Mommy
- The Fierce Diva Guide to Life
- The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee
- The Magic Nutshell
- The Mother Huddle
- The NovelistaBarista
- THE PLANET ESME PLAN
- The Scoop on Poop
- The Sears Fam
- The Table of Promise: One Family's Search for a Better Meal
- The Un Mom
- The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
- theflyingchalupa.com
- Think Tank Momma
- Three Little Ladies...
- Us and Them
- VerWaynia
- Vodkamom
- Welcome to yNot Creative
- What She Said
- What Would Emma Pillsbury Wear?
- When Life Hands Me Lemons, I Have to Take Prozac
- Wholistically Rooted
- Work. Play. Eat. Dream...
- World of Wags
- Woulda Coulda Shoulda
- www.ahurricanecalledcarmen.com/
- yes and yes
Gender | Female |
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Industry | Education |
Occupation | ELL Teacher |
Location | Chicago Suburbs, IL, United States |
Introduction | I live in the Chicago Suburbs with my husband and our three kids--two sons and a daughter. I've always loved writing, and this blog is a way for me to chronicle my life as a mom. I enjoy reading, cooking, eating out, and gardening. When I'm not being a mom, I teach English (ESL/ELL) at the elementary school level. |
Favorite Music | I like all kinds of music, from classic rock to country, jazz to adult contemporary. Lately most of my favorite music has been very mellow: Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Keane, Sarah McLachlan, John Mayer, Mozart, Lily Allen, Coldplay, Wilco, Corrine Bailey Rae, etc. |
Favorite Books | I read too much. It is an addiction, I'm afraid. Here are some examples of things I've read lately. Nonfiction: Some of my favorites are: "Guns, Germs, and Steel, "Freakonomics, " "Deep Ancestry, "The Tipping Point, " "Outliers, " "Before the Dawn, " "Funny in Farsi, " "Your Inner Fish, " "The Power of Kindness, " and anything by Carl Sagan. I also read every book on teaching that I can find, as well as books on organization (not that they help). Fiction: Some of my favorites from this year include: "Water for Elephants, " "The Zookeeper's Wife, " "One Thousand Splendid Suns, " and "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." On occasion, I like to read fluff such as romance novels and contemporary fiction. Oh, and I love to read children's books and young adult literature, so that I can recommend books to my students. I've also been known to read tons of magazines. I have subscriptions to Mental Floss, The Week, National Geographic, Ode, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and The Economist. |