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Vintage Style Metal Trunks

November 1, 2010
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I am an organizer. There, I said it! Clutter drives me bananas. I can live with dust, but seeing stuff all over my kitchen counters? That makes my blood boil. The problem is that I normally cheap out and just buy plain, old, boring plastic tubs when I want to organize. I’m not sure what’s [...]

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Wow – OxiClean Really Works!

September 7, 2009

You may already know this. In fact, I might just be the last mom on the planet to know this, but now that I know, I can’t help but share. OxiClean is the best damn invention since sliced bread. I’m usually wary of any product hocked through late night infomercials, but I have to admit [...]

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Trader Joe’s Healthy Snacks

August 27, 2009

It’s hard to fully explain the greatness that is Trader Joe’s for quick, easy and nutritious meals. Since I’m on the quest to find such things, I went to the Trader Joe’s around the corner from our house and came home with the mother lode. To tell you my entire grocery list would take too [...]

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Baby Product Recall List

August 26, 2009

I was reading the recall notices in this month’s issue of Parents Magazine and thought, “ahh, nothing I have,” but it got me to thinking – do I really know what has been recalled and what hasn’t? Apparently not…I just found out our car seat has been recalled! Yikes. We have the Maxi Cosi car [...]

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The Search for Healthy Toddler Food

August 21, 2009

I’ve been struggling with nutrition as of late. Since becoming pregnant and having all sorts of aversions to food and, well, the entire kitchen, I’ve noticed that I’ve let my toddler’s food choices slip from nutritious to easy to make. Now I’m not saying that things that are easy to make are inherently not nutritious, [...]

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To Pacify or Not To Pacify?

March 20, 2009

In our house, we decided that a pacifier was the way to go when at two or three months our daughter was having trouble sleeping.  Well, that is an understatement.  She had a witching hour where she screamed her tiny head off of a full hour, if not longer and the only things that calmed [...]

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Have We Become Our Own Wet Nurses?

March 19, 2009

I was reading an article in the New Yorker about breastfeeding and was stunned at the idea that we, as mothers, may becoming our own wet nurses because of the preference of pumping over breastfeeding.  As a mother who had difficulty with breast feeding because my milk had trouble traveling down my milk ducts to [...]

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