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Chameleon Parenting: Adapt to Your Child’s Unique Design – Jill Savage

February 17, 2010

My fifteen-year-old daughter loves to go to the mall. She loves to shop, but even more she desires to see how outfits are put together or clothing is constructed. She dreams of becoming a fashion designer someday.
She has a mom who hates to shop.
My twelve-year-old and nine-year-old sons love sports. Between the two of them, [...]

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The Confident Mom’s Top Ten List

January 21, 2010

Top Ten Parenting Book picks just for Moms! How can you navigate the 51,780 books on parenting found on amazon.com? Read on to learn which ones are good picks and really are useful!

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Dust Bunnies Delight!

December 22, 2009

From Hal Runkel, ScreamFree Parenting:
“Houses are meant to live in, not look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity.”
Sir Francis Bacon
Ok, the kids are out of school, your in laws are coming tomorrow, and your house looks like the inside of a snowglobe right after you shake it. What to do? Relax. Enjoy your [...]

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Busy Moms – Get Fit in 25 minutes a Day …..REALLY!

December 19, 2009

The year is coming to an end and I am getting more frustrated with myself because I have NOT returned to my normal running schedule. Why is it so hard to get back into a habit but so easy to break it? After falling down the stairs in late September and hurting my [...]

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Are You a Bad Mom When You Allow Your Kids to Struggle?

November 13, 2009

Isn’t our goal as parents to help develop problem solving skills in our children? I think as busy moms, we often forget and take the easy road and solve problems for our kids. By repeating this habit of giving answers to our children instead of allowing them the opportunity to figure something out on their [...]

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Is Your Pot About Ready to Boil Over?

October 30, 2009

As I was reading this morning during my “setting my attitude” time (or as some of you may call it your devotion or quiet time) I ran across this line in the book, “Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God” by Mary E. DeMuth. She writes: “As women and mothers, our lives boil over. Sometimes we pour the [...]

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A Busy Mom is Saved with Emealz! Winner announced……

October 24, 2009

Great response to my blog post about Emealz and how it has changed dinner preparation at our house. I am continuing to enjoy all the benefits of having someone else plan my dinners and put together my grocery list and now another busy mom joins for FREE! I am happy to announce, Alicia [...]

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Call on Paperlicious – they love moms!

September 25, 2009

I have something fun to share with my moms this morning! Have you ever found yourself out and you run into another mom or friend you haven’t seen in forever? Yet when you decide to exchange information you can’t find a pen or paper look like a fool running around to find a napkin [...]

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Parenting is a marathon – not a Sprint!!

September 18, 2009

Some of you who have followed me know I ran a half-marathon last Sunday. I had been training for about 8 weeks, actually with a much bigger goal of entering the Seattle Marathon in late November – but this half-marathon fit right into my scheduled training for mileage so I signed up. A small event, [...]

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