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Taking a Lazy Mom Day...

I'm having one of those days, again, where I just can't seem to pull myself together. Here it is after noon already, and I'm still in my PJ's. I mean, I don't think this is a problem all the time. We all need days to ju…
Recommendations: Best Eye Cream?

Hi Mamas! Thanks so much for all the suggestions for my mom's beauty basket! Based on your recommendations I was able to put together a great basket and she loved it! I really appreciate everyone's feedback.…
Input Needed! Making My Mom a Beauty Basket!

My mom is truly a supermom. She's a full time nurse, community volunteer, avid gardener and home improvement enthusiast. She's pretty much the glue in our family, and right now the sole income provider, as my dad has be…
20 Things You Like About Yourself

What if you were required to make a list of 20 things you like about yourself and then read it in front of a group of people? Would you have a hard time coming up with the list? Would it be hard or easy to read out loud…
Red Scribbles and Lack of Perk?

Sadly, a part of pregnancy is those little squiggly red lines that decide to show up anywhere on your body. Yes stretch marks! For the first 8 months I tried hard, and fought the good fight against their appearance, b…
Mom's Day Out!!

After 4 years and 9 months of complete devotion to my husband and our children, I believe I've earned a sick day. One of these days, I'm going to cash it in. I'm going to look at my husband when Aaron runs in the room at…
7 Social Self Care Tips

One of the keys to self-care is balance. Balancing self-care between physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and relational/social helps to ensure that our efforts to take care of ourselves don’t turn into es…
5 Easy Ways to Take Care of Your Body

Lose weight. Exercise. Eat better. Well, sure, those are great ways to take care of yourself physically, but when you’re barely taking care of yourself at all because, say, you’re a parent to a young child o…
Dump the Frump

“You’re looking so much better,” is a strange kind of compliment, but one that I happily took today. It came from a man I’ve been seeing in meetings I started attending in February, twelve days b…
SAHM = HARD

Lately, I've really begun to wonder where the "normal" me has gone. I've always considered myself a pretty laid back and generally happy person. However, the stresses of being a stay at home mom to two toddlers has re…