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Tired of feeling frumpy? Hollywood stylist Erin Ross teaches stay at home moms how to create a comfortable capsule wardrobe on a budget that will make you feel like a million bucks!
5 doctors and 3 ½ years later, my medical ‘mystery’ solved: I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. My POTS Syndrome diagnosis story. Every woman ages 15 to 50 needs to read this.
Check out what a typical day-in-the-life looked like for our family this year with a 2-year old, doing our first year of homeschool, and me trying to fit in working from home.
One Friday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, I finally found it: My limit. It had been creeping up on me for days and weeks, and probably months and months, despite my trying to ignore it. I was at the end of myself, a place I’ve found myself all too often...
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Potty training regressions, yes I said it. Ok you guys, this is going to be the kind of post my kids are just going to hate me for writing in about 12 years. I’m sorry my children. I had to do it. Maybe you’ll understand when you have babies of your own...
At long last, our toddler started sleeping through the night on a consistent basis. We tried absolutely everything to help him of the course of our long journey in pursuit of sleep. If you’re struggling with total exhaustion, desperate to help your toddler sleep, here are all the details of how we finally got there!
Your newborn can crawl! Babies are born with the instinct to scoot toward their mother’s breast to initiate breastfeeding, but specific conditions need to be in place for it to work. Here’s how to get your newborn crawling to breastfeed.
Please welcome Liwen of 2 Square 2 Be Hip as she shares her tips on how to capture those fleeting childhood memories. I love these ideas as I know all too well how quickly little ones grow! I watched my kids as they sat on the bottom step of our staircase to put on...
After reading about the first day of potty training, I knew that it would be intense. The idea is to completely ditch the diapers and let your little run around in the buff all day while you watch them intensely to see when they start to potty. I’d have to be prepared if I was really going to watch my little one that closely. Here’s what I did to prepare. Actually, it wouldn’t have gotten done at all except that DH really did most of it for me while I was getting the toddler to bed after a long exhausting day.
All right, who stole my week? Last week I was happily thinking about how Baby #2 would be arriving in about 14 weeks. The next day, I got my pregnancy update email and poof! Just like that a whole week was gone. I thought I was 26 weeks, but I was actually 27! Now I...
Are you longing to be home with your little ones? Find out how to afford to be a stay at home mom, and how ditching the 9 to 5 can actually be cheaper.
If you go TV free for just one week, you will have over 32 hours of extra time! Thirty-two hours is a lot of time! You may find yourself wondering what to do instead of watching TV. You could really accomplish a lot, or get out and have a lot of fun! What will you do?...
Sometimes, it seems like I’m lucky if I get one thing crossed off my To Do List in a week. Tasks get added much more often than they are completed. Why do I have all this inspiration, creativity, ambition, idealism, only to be held back by the constraints of...
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