
Independent Writing and Editing Professional, Website Consultant
Greater New York City Area

Independent Writing and Editing Professional, Website Consultant
Greater New York City Area
I am a full-time mom and freelance writer, a lover of multi-functional gadgets, slayer of ALL appliances proved slow and/or inefficient, with 4 children, 2 cats, 1 super hyper sock-eating chocolate lab...oh, and 2 danged much laundry.
In other words, I make OTHER mothers look good!
This Full House is my parenting blog created in 2003 (a charter member of the BlogHerAds Network and listed as one of the Top 100 Mom Blogs and Alltop.com) and I host the Review Bloggers' Monthly on my shopping blog, This Full House Gone Shoppin', listed on the Top 10 Product Review Mom Blogs on Blogs.com.
I am a columnist for The Imperfect Parent, a writer for the Parent Bloggers Network, and have submitted essays as a contributing editor to BlogHer.org, New Jersey Moms Blog (a Silicon Valley Moms Group blog) and Green Mom Finds.
I am also one of the Parenting Team Advisor Board at Disney's Family.com and featured mom blogger for Wondertime.com.
Through my blog, I enjoy connecting with real families (like,This Full House) across the Internets and finding products that perhaps help to make life a little easier, partnering with brands like Suave, Kraft, General Mills, Glamour Magazine and Johnson & Johnson, as well as participating in promotional work with Nintendo (makers of the Wii) Microsoft (the makers of Xbox 360) and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) in helping parents learn more about Internet safety.
I am proud to be a native Jersey Girl and a first generation American - my parents immigrated from Hungary in 1956 - along with my twin brother, Steve, and I am also an avid genealogist, who will forever be thankful that my
grandmother taught me how to speak, read and write in Hungarian.
I live with my husband, Garth (not his real name) and our four children (ages 15, 13, 10, & 8) and write in Central New Jersey.
Blogging, editing, large families, parenting, product reviews, social networking, web consultant, writing
(Internet industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Provide articles on parenting, while under the influence of children, for my monthly column entitled, "Growing Pains."
(Internet industry)
September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
6 people living in a 7 room house? This Full House is a full-frontal encounter into my life as a full-time mom and freelance writer, a lover of multi-functional gadgets, slayer of ALL appliances proved slow and/or inefficient, with 4 children, 2 cats, 1 super hyper sock-eating chocolate lab and 2 damned much laundry. I make OTHER mothers, you know, look good!
(Internet industry)
March 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Contributing Writer to New Jersey Moms Blog - a Silicon Valley Moms Group sister site.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
January 2007 — January 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Parenting Team Adviser for Disney's Family.com
(Self-Employed; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Contributing Editor - Fashion and Shopping - providing internet surfing guide for blogging women.
(Writing and Editing industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
blogging, children, cooking, consumer advocacy, education, family, gardening, parenting, shopping, writing
BlogHer, DotMoms, Mom Central, Parent Bloggers Network, Silicon Valley Moms Group, Team Mom, Work-It Mom
Top 100 Mom Blogs - Mothers Day Central
“The Big Not So Easy,” received Honorable Mention (#37 of top 100 out of 18,000 submissions) in the 73rd Annual Writers Digest Magazine Writing Competition - Inspirational Category.
“Best Mommy Blog Finalist” in the Best of Blog (BoB) Awards 2004
“Best Parenting Blog Finalist” in The Weblog Awards 2005
Kawasakied in 2006 and 2008 as Top 100 Mom Blog and listed in Alltop.com