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By Tamara

Normally I don’t need help shopping. I am very capable of going to the store, spending way too much time there browsing around, and dropping too much cash before leaving with too many bags.

However, for this particular item, I need your help. What is it that I want to buy?

A smart phone.

Yes. That’s right. The girl who has 2.5 blogs (I count this as a half since Elizabeth and I co-created it), is on Twitter and Facebook a lot, and can’t live without checking her emails multiple times a day, does not yet have a smart phone.

I have been dragging my feet up to this point because I felt I didn’t need anything else to distract me from the kids. But alas, I have realized that a smart phone might be more helpful than harmful.

Why?

One reason is that I won’t have to lug around my laptop to conferences or other places. Ever done that? It hurts your back after awhile.

Another reason is that I will be going on a trip soon for the ConAgra Food’s “Child Hunger Campaign” I am a part of (details next week…you don’t want to miss that post!) and would like the ability to easily tweet out pictures and updates to you all.

So I caved. Decided to upgrade and pay the little bit extra for the smart phone. But now I need to decide which one! There are no short of a million smart phones out there, each with their pros and cons. Reading the reviews only makes your head spin, too. So I wanted to get your input, either from experience or reviews from those you know who own one.

I may have gotten inpatient by the time this post goes live and already bought one, but I still want your input just in case. So tell me this….

What smart phone should I buy and why?

Are there any I should avoid or ones I must have?

*If it matters, I use T-Mobile for service.

Tamara is a mom of 2 boys and the voice behind The (Un)Experienced Mom. She’s also the creator of Blog Conference Newbie, which is already recognized as a resource in the blogging community. When she’s not blogging or tweeting, she’s most likely sleeping…or changing a poopy diaper.

 

By Honey B.

Remember in school when you were talked about if you wore the wrong clothes? Like wearing something from the year before, or still following a fad that had totally died out.

Then there was what you had for lunch. The cool kids had Lunchables, I usually had homemade. Soo lame. (My mom always made my PB&J on what my dad and I termed floor-sweepings bread. It was homemade, with about as many grains as you could include without the bread disintegrating into a pile of, well, floor sweepings.)

I was SO glad when I finished school, and left the snobbery behind me.

Or so I thought.

Grocery shopping with Marmot this past weekend, nothing out of the ordinary. We try to eat ‘clean’ and spend the majority of our time in the Health Food section of our local grocery store- its like a mini-grocery store, complete with freezer, produce, and refrigerated sections.

This trip was just a little different; I had stocked up on various Weight Watchers items as I tried to get back into the WW thing. So yes, there was a lot of processed food in my cart. But I’m in the health food section, and I was reaching for a package of Weight Watchers cheese (although why it’s in the Health Food section is beyond me, since its 99% chemicals anyway). There was a woman next to me browsing the yogurt… that’s when I think I found the grown-up version of “lunch judgment”. She sees me reach for the Weight Watchers cheese and– I kid you not– looks at my choice and gives me a snort and a straight-up lip curl.

I may or may not have muttered something about body odor being nice ambiance for an organic dinner on my way back to Marmot and the cart. Apparently no matter how grown-up we are, the school lunchroom really isn’t as far in the past as we like to think.

Honey posts regularly at the Honey B. Blog, keeping you apprised of Baby Bucket List progress and the life of a wanna-be mommy!