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Welcome to My Hot Pink House

Someone recently commented – after seeing a photo of my daughter opening a present on Christmas – that it looked like a pink bomb had gone off in my house. They were referring to all the princess paraphernalia strewn around my living room.

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Pay It Forward… With Lattes?

Sometimes our seemingly smallest acts can have the largest impact — and what’s more profound is that we might never even know just how much. Take the Starbucks drive-thru, for example.

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Six Steps to Family Bliss? Not.

Like a lot of people these days, I get much of my news – important global events and inane personal updates – via Facebook. Ditto for entertainment. Sometimes unintentional entertainment. This past week, a mom I know sent me a very helpful item about how to have a happy family. It was useful because I…

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Deadly Food Allergies: From A Teen Who Has Them

This article was written by a 14 year old girl dealing with life threating food allergies. Hey Hun, my Mom tells my Dad, Lets stop at the market for groceries, perhaps we can we go to Whole Foods for dinner? Were getting groceries, so it might be easier to eat there. And, we want to celebrate! Great idea! he says.Crap. I thought to myself.And why not celebrate? We had just come …