Archive for the ‘Families and Children’ Category

Why Dandelions Exist

Most people hate seeing dandelions growing in their yards. Not me, they have a very important purpose in the life of a child!

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The Friends With Kids Divide

When my son was born 5 years ago, I noticed something: I lost all of my friends.
I had one or two good friends still but most of them completely fell off the face of the earth. Sure, some of them I still have hanging around my neglected MySpace Page but with the exception of one [...]

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Bald is Beautiful

Recently on one of my favorite discussion boards MyLot, one of the members there posed the question: How do I keep my hair from falling out and get it to grow back? Many of the responses were about hair transplants, products like Rogaine, drinking milk, and other solutions. I was surprised I was the first to [...]

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A Tribute to Dad Bloggers

With Father’s Day soon approaching I thought it would be suitable to highlight some of my favorite Dad bloggers and pay them a special tribute with this post. Not to mention we had lots of fun with Dance of Motherhood’s Mom Bloggers contest and now it’s time for her Favorite Dad Bloggers Contest!
That being said, [...]

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What We Can Learn by Taking Baby Steps

My daughter at 8 and a half months old is starting to walk. It’s always an exciting and nerve racking time for parents as you hurry to baby proof everything and snap some pictures while it lasts. As I watched her taking these “baby steps” I started thinking of how taking baby steps in other [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

In honor of Mother’s Day, I am going to share with you all a poem I wrote for Associated Content called “Momisms: The Things Mom Say“. I know my mom said plenty of these things and now that I’m a mom I too of course am guilty of using many of these mom phrases!
I also [...]

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A Tribute to Mom Bloggers

With Mother’s Day Fast Approaching, I thought I would pay a special tribute to all the great Mom Bloggers out there. So here they are, 8 Awesome Mom Bloggers:
1. Geek Mom Mashup: Being a bit of a geek mom myself, it’s always fun to see what Geekmom (aka Heather) has written about. As her site says [...]

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8 Fun Ideas for Coloring Book Pages

It could be because I’m a mom, or maybe I’m just a kid at heart, but I love coloring book pages. There’s something about sitting somewhere just mindlessly coloring pictures that is very relaxing and therapuetic to me. And I of course love receiving colored pages from my hubby and the kids. Since I love [...]

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How to Be a Kid Again…

Think life was better when you were a kid? Overwhelmed by stress? Here are some fun ways to reclaim your inner child.
Jump in puddles
Wear velcro shoes
Let ice cream drip down your chin
Watch Saturday Morning Cartoons
Pick dandelions and give them to your mom
Ride a Merry-Go-Round
Play hopscotch
Take a bubble bath with your rubber ducky
Sleep with a nightlight [...]

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Bears in Chairs

Teddybears are cute. Personalized gifts for grandmas or moms with the kid’s names on it are cute, too. Put them together and you get these great gifts from Bears in Chairs - Gifts You Design!.
Tell me this isn’t a gift grandma would love:

Here’s another cute one:

They have a ton of variety on the site [...]

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