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Verastic

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It’s Mother’s Day, And I’m A Mommy

Ada Verastic

6:58 AM I was going to write about Mother's Day on Friday, and it was supposed to be scheduled to be published today, but I could not quite find the words. I started several posts with several titles, but it was not flowing, so I stopped and promised to do it on Saturday (yesterday). Yesterday, however, between making us a big breakfast and us driving to a wedding in Washington D.C (after dropping Ada Verastic with grandma), there just wasn't the time because as you know, after a big meal comes Read More

Video: Behind The Scenes Of The Listen To Your Mother Show

Listen To Your Mother Baltimore - Verastic

It's  been a week since I was honored to speak at the Listen To Your Mother Show, and I can honestly say that I'm still very high from the event. I wish we could do this every weekend! Before the show started, my heart was pounding gbim gbim like it was going to jump out of my chest, but as soon as my name was called, I walked "majestically" to the podium. In fact, I stood up before my name was completely called. Igwe, Ada Verastic, Grandma, Aunt Chinelo, Aunt Ifeoma, Funmie, and Solachi Read More

XFINITY Can Make You A Super Mom

XFINITY X1

Last week, I drove to Washington D.C. for the XFINITY Moms event hosted by Comcast. Six months ago, I was not a mommy yet, so I probably would not have been invited to this event. Long before I had Ada Verastic, Igwe and I used to talk about technology and how things are so different with babies/children these days. Would the new children be flying cars, instead of driving them? We'd wonder. Igwe often makes fun of the fact that when he was growing up, he was too broke to even have a real ball Read More

Recap: Toyota Gave Me A Rav-4 And I Spoke At The Morgan State University BrandU Event

Recap: Toyota Gave Me A Rav-4 And I Spoke At The Morgan State University BrandU Event

Two totally unrelated events, but they happened back to back. Last week was busy for me. It seemed like I had somewhere to be everyday, and this week is even busier. I cannot call this a weekend recount because the two events I'm writing about happened during the week. First and foremost, I shared on social media that Toyota gave me a Rav-4, but the post was a bit misleading. They gave me a car to drive for a week because I am totally awesome, and because they are trying to use "idea" to Read More

Video Response To Ask Me Anything 2

Video Response To Ask Me Anything 2

As I journey through this video thing, please be patient with me.  I have much to learn. For example, we recorded this video response last weekend, but when I watched it on my computer, I didn't like the lighting, so I had to rerecord the entire video, so the video below is the second version. And then, after I was done recording, I realized that you can actually edit the lighting. Anyway, enjoy the video response to episode 2 of Ask Me Anything. I will be putting up another post to open up Read More

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