I'm kicking myself. I'm kicking myself because I wasn't more aware of how important it is to eat organic when my daughter was very little. When my son came along, I'll admit I was scared by statistics of ADHD, autism and other health issues that impact boys statistically more signi...
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I do not have giant children. Both preschool girl, and now toddler boy, have hugged the very bottom of the growth chart at the pediatrician's office. In fact, toddler boy is so small he FELL OFF the growth chart after his first birthday. Because their health is fine, one of the main ...
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March 20-26 is National Poison Prevention Week. This week, the Poison Prevention Week Council, a coalition of national organizations, is working to stop unintentional poisonings by educating families about medication and household product safety. As a pharmacist and mom to a little one...
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Child Hunger in America
In 2009, 17.2 million children under the age of 18 are living in food insecure households compared to 16.7 million in 2008.
That means that nearly one in four children in the United States (23.2%) live in food insecure households.
Feeding America serves nearly 1...
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I recently had to opportunity to interview a world class athlete, Gretchen Bleiler. How cool is that? It was fun for me to interview this awesome snow boarder. I spent a lot of time watching Gretchen in the 2010 Olympics. Remember all that late night, all night coverage? Well, I was in the...
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If you have been following on Facebook, then you know my husband arrived home last night! He's here for two weeks on his mid-deployment "R & R" (rest and relaxation) leave. Enjoy some photos from our sweet little reunion.
Getting ready...
There he is!
Do you think she's happy to see...
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Unlike my son's traumatic haircut of exactly one year ago, we went into this one knowing the end result would be a shaved head. It was planned to honor my dad who shaved his head yesterday, too.
Before:
During:
After:
Proud.
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I've written this post in my head nearly every day for the past 19 days. I've thought about whether or not to say anything here and what I want to say. Turns out what I really want to do is apologize. I'm sorry if I haven't returned your email. I'm sorry for delay in picking giveaway winne...
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