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A Day of Firsts: When I Realized My Career is Coming in Second
The day I’d been dreading since I became a mom has finally come and gone. It took me two years to get there (as that’s the age of my oldest), but I’m now here. I’m okay, minus some shots to my ego and a few silly tears I shed just to release the feeling. I’m told that most mostly-stay-at-home moms (and totally-stay-at-home-moms) go through this.
Book Review: Self-Care for Life
I began reading Self-Care for Life: Find Joy, Peace, Serenity, Vitality, Sensuality, Abundance, and Enlightenment – Each and Every Day by Alexander Skye, Meera Lester and Carolyn Dean MDseveral months ago.
Keep Your Kids Safe: Interview With a Survivor of Child Abuse
What can parents do to protect their children? To help answer that question, KidSafe Foundation in collaboration with Kristi Kernal of The OAASIS (Oregon Abuse Advocates & Survivors in Service) Organization in Oregon is continuing the important discussion of child sexual abuse by trusted adults in our schools.
5 Things Parents of Preemies and Micro-Preemies Should Know
My daughter, who will be four years old this July, was a micro-preemie, which means she weighed less than 1.4 lbs when she was born.When we were dumped into this journey of raising a preemie – and I say dumped because you usually have no time to prepare – we quickly realized how important it was to be familiar with hospital/NICU lingo. For the first day or two, until we started to understand the …
How Do You Explain Death to Your Kids?
Recently I have found myself talking to my almost 4 year old about people dying and death. I suspect its partly because we (and I mean, me, my husband and our two kids) play Skylander Giants.