Archive | October, 2012
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Her Heart Has 20/20 Vision

By on October 18, 2012 in Girl Powers, I Want To Remember This

Girl Powers: Mom, when I see things – but I’m not seeing them with my eyes, you know, like, I can’t really see them – then I’m seeing them with my heart, right? Me: Right, baby. GP: Like, right now I can see Mor Mor and Grandpa’s house even though we’re not there yet. Or, like [...]

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First Friends

By on October 15, 2012 in Girl Powers

Once upon a time, I was a new mom. I didn’t think I needed new friends, but it turns out I did. So I made one (and soon after, made more). Our babies didn’t know it yet but they would become friends, too. And so we went from this…

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Check me out at The Happiest Mom!

By on October 9, 2012 in Writing

When I first started reading blogs in 2009, I found most of the ones I read via Babble’s Top 100 Mom Blogs list. There’s always a little back-chatter about this list (and others like it) from those who aren’t big on ranked lists or who question the criteria for making the list in the first [...]

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Making Room

By on October 4, 2012 in Baby Powers, Pregnancy

A year or so ago my friend Melissa and I were talking–very hypothetically at the time–about the prospect of adding a third babe to our respective families. This conversation can go, as you probably know, in a million different directions: spacing between kids, family finances, the fuzzy and hard to pin down notion of feeling [...]

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{Me @ SMB} The Easiest Garden Ever

By on October 1, 2012 in Me @ SMB

Today I’m over at Scottsdale Moms Blog, giving step-by-step instructions on how to plant a garden in Arizona without breaking a sweat or lifting a finger. It really takes quite a bit of talent, I must say. Send us good gardening luck! Here’s the link to my post.

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