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In this Horrible, Wonderful Village

jennyf — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:36:51 +0000

jennyf posted 19 hours 26 min ago — jennyf When I was 11 years old, I met the girl who would become my best friend. She had long brown hair cut short in the front and feathered on the sides. She was a little plump and freckly. Like me, she was flipping through the Top 40 section of '...

The Gaze

UnknownMami — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:50:00 +0000

UnknownMami posted 9 hours 20 min ago — Growing up, I was cursed blessed with a gorgeous single mother. My mother is not shy and she has always enjoyed an admiring male gaze. The admiring gazes abounded and for the most part I tried to ignore the attention she garnered.In my teen y...

Thanksgiving Healthy Recipe Guide

girlgetstrong — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:33 +0000

girlgetstrong posted 3 hours 4 min ago — Thanksgiving is equal parts counting our blessings and indulgence. No one questions you when you’ve filled your third plate with stuffing and pumpkin pie, no one bothers to ask why you ate your weight in turkey and chose a nap over a walk, and no...

Maternity & Paternity Leave

newlyparents — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000

newlyparents posted 19 min 35 sec ago — Original Posting at NewlyParents.com We are now in our six month of pregnancy and as a dual income household it's time to start figuring out who's taking off of work when and coming up with a schedule to maximize our family time together. Basica...

Ten Second Rule

faemom — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:13:44 +0000

faemom posted 9 hours 56 min ago — Evan: Mommy! Did you wash the floors today? Well, no. I haven’t mopped in a few days. I haven’t vacuumed since . . . what day is it? Me: Why? Evan: I just dropped a fishy, and I don’t know if I can eat it. It might be dirty and full o...

The Weekend

faemom — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:24:34 +0000

faemom posted 41 min 14 sec ago — I’ve got some exciting and frightening news. . . . I’m going on a girls’ weekend! YEA! I haven’t been in one since I was first married. The Husband and I made a pact. He could go on only two guy trips a year unless I went on two. Back...

Christmas Crafts

Zeemaid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Zeemaid posted 1 hour 46 min ago — I don't know what it is about this time of year but it makes me want to craft more than any other season. Perhaps it's my love of Christmas and all things Christmassy. I am a sucker for snowmen and Santa dishes, candles etc. Perhaps it's because...

Olympics - Commoners Not Allowed

Zeemaid — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:12:00 +0000

Zeemaid posted 12 hours 6 min ago — The 2010 Winter Olympics are being held in my province. I am of a mixed mind about this. While I am not overly involved in winter sports and I do not enjoy watching it on television, I struggle with whether I should actually be proud that the Olym...

Life Decisions: Schooling

faemom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:48:26 +0000

faemom posted 12 hours 1 min ago — I went to a Catholic school as a kid from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. It was a pretty tough school with hours of homework and a grading scale of just five points for each letter grade (ei: 100-95 = A). The report cards always had the grad...

Preview

faemom — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:01:52 +0000

faemom posted 3 hours 41 min ago — This isn’t the real post, but for those of you that have been wondering if I dropped crafts, I did, but I think I had a great reason (you know, vomiting, fatigue also known as morning sickness). But now that Christmas is coming and, well, t...

AdAge knows I don’t have time to clean my house

countryfriedmama — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:38:38 +0000

countryfriedmama posted 1 hour 35 min ago — Scene from a grocery store: A harried, sweaty woman enters in gym clothes. She has two kids in tow. It is dinner time, and they are hungry. Mom has had a brainstorm: order pizza from her fancy, yuppie grocery store, then run around the store find...

It’s all better

faemom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:41:10 +0000

faemom posted 10 hours 8 min ago — The Husband was wrestling in our bed with the boys. A favorite past time, that I willingly forgo. A girl can only evade a broken nose for so long before she’s over the game. I took the time to catch-up on the many blogs I missed last week.

Top Ten Thursday - 10 Things I'd Rather Do than Clean

Zeemaid — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Zeemaid posted 12 hours 57 min ago — I recently stumbled across a blog called Should be Cleaning and thought girl, that is definitely a metaphor for my life. Should be Cleaning. I should be cleaning something but instead here I am. So I thought I'd do my Top Ten List of Things I Do...

Yellings in the grocery store

faemom — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:29:53 +0000

faemom posted 5 hours 51 min ago — We were at the grocery store with one of those stupid car carts because they had been banned from them for a month earlier and I figured that it was time to try again. We were in the canned foods aisle picking up food for the food drive, when I h...

Pithy Parenting Tip #159

Zeemaid — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Zeemaid posted 6 hours 14 min ago — Never leave your toothbrush out on the counter. You never know what they are going to "clean" with it. In the Mommy Trenches...