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7 Ways Moms Can De-Stress the Holidays 0

This year, Christmas break has the potential of going really well or being a complete disaster for me. I'd planned to keep things low key (as in no real work for two weeks), but an amazing opportunity landed in my inbox last week and now I'm definitely working every day.  This is literally a dream come true for me (don't worry, I'll share soon:-), but I still want to enjoy some semblance of holiday festivities and also stay sane in the process. Oh, and there's this little matter of toddler boss, who is definitely expecting my full attention.  Definitely....
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How to Transform Your Daily Mommy Grind 0

This has been a rough week.  A really rough week.  Toddler boss has been out sick with yet another ear infection and in the midst of nursing her back to health, I got sick too.  I haven’t felt this bad in a while.  Fever, nasal congestion, headache, cough, body ache, chills and very little energy to do anything else but hold the remote and drag myself to the kitchen to make boring meals for us. My sole outlets to the outside world (todder boss insists that I keep “Barney & Friends” on replay, so CNN...
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Toddler Sick Day Survival Guide & Essentials 0

Toddler boss was out of school last week with a pretty bad ear infection, and, unfortunately I wasn’t feeling my best either. Actually, that’s putting it mildly…I felt AWFUL. And for the record, let me just say that it sucks being sick while your child is sick.  It’s impossible to get rest when she’s awake and even if you can sneak in a nap at some point while she’s sleeping, you can’t get any sort of decent sleep because you really do need to be alert (even though the "non-drowsy" meds you took apparently missed the...
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Moms-to-Be: Your Ultimate Hospital Bag Checklist 0

This post started out as one of several mommy-to-be lists that I created for myself almost two years ago in preparation for toddler boss’s arrival.  After I packed my bag, I didn’t look at the list again until a couple of weeks ago when I ran into a friend and fellow mompreneur who was preparing to have baby #3 in less than a week. She’d already had two home births, but this was going to be her first time in a hospital and she had no idea what to pack.  There she was, running a business, literally...
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Smart + Stylish Mom Spotlight: You are Your Child's Best Advocate 0

Today’s smart + stylish mom is Christine Pak, a 33-year old artist, stay-at-home mom and aspiring med school student who lives in the Washington, DC suburbs with her husband and 2-year old daughter, Sophie.  I met Christine and Sophie in a music class that Riley and I attended in the spring of 2014. Sidenote: this was a wonderful experience and I highly recommend Mrs.Sings’s MusicArt in Crofton, MD.   I’ll never forget how nervous I was during the first day of class.  At 16 months, Riley was the youngest student in a class designed for 18-month to...
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