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After Birth, Not Afterbirth
Who just had this reaction after reading that title?! As a site owner/blogger/occasional iffy vlogger, I do lots of rooting around the Internets looking for the very best for you. While this site is...
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What I Will Tell Sweet E: Dig Yourself
I stumbled over this piece I wrote a few years back and it brought home the point that truth never changes; it’s the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Dig Yourself Once you get over what folks think...
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Flat Head Syndrome
Um, what? Flat head syndrome? What is it and who gets it? Who Gets It: Babies. What Is It: Positional plagiocephaly (pronounced play-gee-oh-sef-a-lee), flat head syndrome, happens when a baby’s head...
View ArticleDare To Dream
As an elder in society…AM SO!…I think it behooves me to learn new things about the world around me, to challenge myself, even if that means I’m uncomfortable. Coding makes me uncomfortable. Yes, the...
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Pain’s Opportunity
As a newly-minted grandmother, I think about opportunities to pass wisdom on to Sweet E when he’s old enough. And life is one big lesson, isn’t it? Last week I received news that a lifelong friend’s...
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The Easiest Face Cleansing Method…Ever
Everyone needs to wash their face, right? But not everyone’s face washing needs are the same, especially as we get older. Enter an amazing method of cleansing your face that will #1) save you some...
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What I’ll Tell Sweet E: Be Grateful
Be grateful, my baby. Seems easy enough. We all know folks who look at their life with dissatisfaction. I’m not talking about the kind of emotion that is healthy and propels us onward to bigger and...
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Required Summer Reading: Are They Drowning?
Summertime = pool time, lake time, get-in-the-water time. It’s also the perfect time to bone up on water safety, particularly knowing how to spot someone who might be drowning. Do you think drowning...
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What I’ll Tell Sweet E: It’s OK to be Vulnerable
I wrote this in the winter, a couple of days after Sweet E had been born and I offer it now in my “What I Will Tell Sweet E” series. (forgive me, but there is some NSFW language) Vulnerability The “v”...
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U.S. Flag Primer
The 4th of July is right around the corner and that means lots of folks will be flying Old Glory, maybe for the first time. For some, the idea of putting up a flag makes them uneasy because they don’t...
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What I Will Tell Sweet E: Good Friends Will Carry You Home
Dearest Sweetest E, You’re gonna need friends as you stiff-arm your way through life; pick them well and they’ll be the lifeblood of your strength. Good friends make you believe you aren’t alone in the...
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Keep It Simple; Let It Ride
Consider this your reminder that things don’t need to be complicated right now; there will be plenty of time for that. Right now it’s summertime, a time for keeping things simple, a time for letting...
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Shift Your Perspective; Shift Your Life
I have been baking up a storm (today it’s pumpkin sweet rolls) on a foot that I burned on a hot sidewalk -so much so, that I can not run or even bike-and I lost all sense of time and realized that I...
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Close Grandparent-Adult Grandchildren Relationships = Less Depression
A new study (who else winces when they see those words?!) from Brown College declares that grandparents and adult grandchildren who share close emotional ties have less symptoms of depression. Let’s...
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Krud Kutter Kuts The Krud
When we were brand new home owners, we were given all kinds of advice on products that would come in handy over the years. One of the best products anyone ever pointed us towards, one that I buy in...
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Guest Who!
Guest posting can be a scary proposition. Will you get it right? Or, will you embarrass yourself? I think I got it right. Deby, over at www.moms-make-money.com put out a call for guest bloggers for...
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I Get Mocked
I get mocked. I get rolled eyes. I get tight smiles and pursed lips. I get long silences and unspoken expectations, begging me to come to my senses. I. Get. Mocked. And that’s OK. I count it as...
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Top 10 Yeses of Grandparenthood
How many “Don’t Do This, You Crazy Grandmother” articles have I read in the last 9-months? Too damned many. That’s right, makes me a little twitchy being told by strangers to stay inside my grandma...
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PSA of the Day: Cocamide Diethanolamine (cocamide DEA)
I rarely watch televised news (get my info online), but as luck would have it, I caught an interesting tidbit about a widely-used chemical that made me plunge into research. Have you heard about...
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Hey! Are You Trying To Get Sued?!
Oh, my babies. I’m here to tell you a harrowing tale. Well, maybe not a harrowing tale, but notably painful, as my butt hurts from all the sitting and researching I’ve been doing on the subject of...
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