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What the Election Means to This Mommy

Every four years, we as Americans, are lucky to have the freedom to vote for the next President of the United States. The months leading up to the election are exciting with knowing that the next four...

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Easy Ideas For A Last-Minute Election Night Party With Kids

Election Day fun does not need to end the moment you walk away from the voting booth and proudly stick the “I voted” sticker to your shirt. Sure, you might not be attending the Obama celebration at...

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Dear Son, Please Stop Teasing My Mother’s Heart

My roller-coaster relationship with my junior high school son often leaves me dizzy, confused and nauseous. Phillip celebrated his 12th birthday earlier this month. Not even a week later, I have yet to...

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How To Make a Difference this Holiday Season

I have some bad news. The radio station 93.9 is already playing holiday music. Most kids are still eating Halloween candy, and retailers are already pushing Christmas and Hanukkah on us. Thanksgiving...

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I’m Expecting! The less-than-lovely details of my first trimester

This is a post I feel I’ve waited my entire existence to write. In May 2013, I am going to become a mom. A real mom! Not just a doggie mom, or a horsey mom. A real mom. Of a tiny person! While I could...

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Black Friday: Stay Home and be Thankful

I confess I fear Black Friday. As a child, I feared Black Friday the way others feared the dark, strangers and death. Black Friday sounded ominous and lurking, something to feed my overly active...

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Hiking In the Rain: How Quickly One Mother Goes From Mother Earth to Cranky...

It sounded like a pleasant idea, a trip to the Morton Arboretum. A morning storm passed through town as we loaded the kids into the car. Our resident meteorologist, 6-year-old Raymond, informed us the...

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My Pregnancy Anthem

Music has always been an outlet for me emotionally, not because I make or play music, but because I feel like some music speaks to me in any given mood. When I was a teenager and discovered “Emo Music”...

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Puppy's First Year: Destroyed by Cuteness

To say the last nine months of puppy ownership have been an adventure would be a gross understatement. Life with our whippet puppy, Rosie Run Her Up, is certainly never dull. If it weren’t for her...

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Seven Deadly Sins: Lust - "Lust is Difficult to Control at Dinnertime"

Lust enters me when I least expect it. It tests my patience and tempts me to do the unacceptable. Lust makes my skin tingle and my body ache. I’ve tried to fight it, to push my insatiable desire out of...

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10 Things My Toddler is Obsessed with Right Now

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Strange Holiday Foods, Then and Now

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How I Knew I Was Pregnant: My Guardian Angel

Strange as it sounds, my best friend as an eleven-year-old girl was a forty-one year old man. He was my hairdresser, my chaperone on equine-related field trips and my horseback-riding buddy. I had...

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Logging Off for the Holidays

I was talking with a friend on Skype the other day, enjoying a great catch-up on each other’s lives. Since she lives on the east coast, it’s the best way we can connect, and the video component, it...

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All I want for Christmas is my sister

I haven’t seen my sister in almost a decade. In fact, it has been so many years since I last saw her that I’m not certain she has met my 9 year old son. I wish I would’ve known the last time I saw her,...

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Spending Christmas Money and Gift Cards: Noiseless Books and Not-So-Annoying...

Christmas has come and gone all too quickly. The presents unwrapped, the ham devoured, the cookies turned into fat – and promptly placed under the skin on my butt cheeks. Before I became a parent, I...

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2013 Resolution: Embrace the Imperfections

In 2013, I will embrace my imperfect life. I am a perfectionist, and I am exhausted. I didn’t realize how truly out of control my perfectionism had gotten until I was in the midst of searching for that...

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Day 1 of the Dr. Oz 3-day Detox: Caffeine Headaches (and Humor)

My intention to try out Dr. Oz’s 3-Day Detox was not in an interest to lose weight, in fact, I have a strange bit of arthritis in my right hand and arm that tends to flare up in extreme weather. After...

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Perkier and Light: Day 2 of the Dr. Oz 3-day Detox

Welcome to day 2 of the Dr. Oz 3-day Detox! Can you tell I am a little bit perkier today? I am happy to report that day 2 is much better than day 1. I woke with a slight headache which was suppressed...

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Cheating: Day 3 of the Dr. Oz 3-day Detox

Welcome to DAY 3 of the Dr. Oz 3-day Detox! How are you doing today? The format for Day 3 will be slightly different, as I will continue to review how I felt physically during the final hours of the...

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