http://wendywillard.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:42:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 8. The last three birthday parties I went to involved decorations that talked about being "over the hill". 7. When my friends with babies come to visit they complain my house is no longer child-proof. 6. My daughter told me someone "wasn't her type" today... (when did she become old enough to ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/07/03/top-8-things-that-remind-me-im-getting-older/ I've been freelancing for 10 years. Over the course of the past decade, I have tried many different types of time keeping and invoicing methods. QuickBooks (recommended by my first accountant) was more than I needed, so I ended up with a tried and true paper-based system. I keep a ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/06/04/freshbooks-online-billing-system/ My kids sometimes complain because I am pretty particular about what they watch and listen to. In fact, they don't watch live TV at all. Instead, they watch TIVOd shows like The Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, and Little House on the Prairie. Seriously. My kids are normal kids, except ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/29/special-brownies/ Have you met the Ice Cream Man? Not the guy who makes you pay for the ice cream he sells, but Matt Allen (shown right) - a.k.a. Free Ice Cream Man. Matt's mission is to travel the world, giving away half a million ice cream treats. To date, he's given ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/28/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for-ice-cream/ This week has been a tough one, because of stories I've read (or heard) or hurt children. As a mom, that really tugs at my heart strings and makes me hug my own kids a little tighter. The hardest story to handle is of 5-year-old Maria Sue Chapman (daughter of ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/23/cinderella/ I love web sites that make your life easier, and Tastebook.com is one of those sites. I enjoy cooking. I'm no chef, just someone who enjoys preparing food for friends and family. I have a couple of recipes I've honed over the years to be "near perfect" and those are ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/22/create-your-own-cookbook/ I know it's hard on a rainy day you want to shut the world out and just be left alone But don't run out on your faith 'Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand What you've been up there searching for forever is in your hands When you figure out ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/21/so-small/ I've just signed a contract to update my HTML book, to coincide with the release of Internet Explorer 8 early next year. So if you have any suggestions for edits/changes to HTML: A Beginner's Guide, please send 'em my way! I look forward to bringing the book up to date. http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/20/html-book-to-be-updated/ We all do it... some people do it watching TV, others snooze, and some people just "hang out"... but I think it's fair to say a whole lot of us waste time surfing the web. Well, lucky for us there's a new way to waste time online: Draw My Thing. This ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/13/how-do-you-waste-time/ I rarely get involved in public discussions about politics - but I do follow politics quite closely, especially in an election year. So when I received the following message in my inbox today, I was intrigued. I decided it was worth posting, even if only to cause a few others ... http://wendywillard.com/blog/2008/05/07/political-commentary-sorta/