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Chase’s Favorite New Word

Melting Pot Mommy — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:53:52 +0000

When Chase was little and felt sick, we used to say he had “yuckies” in his tummy — because his stomach felt yucky and the stuff he threw up was yucky. As he got bigger, he started...

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Mommy vs. Virus

Melting Pot Mommy — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:16:09 +0000

What started out as a ticklish throat last Friday morning quickly turned into aches, chills, and coughing up lots of gross looking, thick green stuff — in general, a totally miserable mommy. ...

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Goals Update

Melting Pot Mommy — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000

The goals I have worked the most actively toward in the past two weeks since my last post are my health (ie., losing weight) and working on my writing in anticipation of the upcoming contest. In my...

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Vitamins, Day One

Melting Pot Mommy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:27:56 +0000

Ask pretty much any doctor and they’ll all tell you the same: take a multivitamin each day for optimum health. And although I try to eat healthier, the odds are I’m not getting all the...

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2012

Melting Pot Mommy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:38:13 +0000

Well, here we are … I had just gotten used to 2011, and now it’s 2012. Like last year, I’ve made resolutions — actually the same ones as last year, but also a new one as...

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Christmas holidays

Melting Pot Mommy — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:25:48 +0000

So it seems I took a bit of a break from writing to enjoy the holidays, which turned out to be a lot busier this year for some reason than last year — oh yeah, I was working! Which,...

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Merry Christmas!

Melting Pot Mommy — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:53:39 +0000

Back in the days when I was ultra thrifty and took advantage of after Christmas sales to buy way more Christmas cards than I needed, I didn’t have kids and didn’t realize how big picture...

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Guilt Trip

Melting Pot Mommy — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:16:20 +0000

It appears that as the year has progressed, my well-intentioned weekly updates have turned into monthly updates, and in the case of this posting, an every other monthly update. I sometimes wonder if...

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Life Happens

Melting Pot Mommy — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:32:14 +0000

I started out the year so good. I was prepared to chronicle my journeys throughout the year — to health, to wealth (maybe not so much wealth, but certainly to becoming less poor), and to more...

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Room Parent Guilt

Melting Pot Mommy — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:57:38 +0000

Felicity and Chase had Back to School night at their school tonight. It’s a chance for parents to meet their children’s teachers and hear about their plans for the upcoming school year,...

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