September 15th, 2008
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By Martha Copeland
Let me direct your thoughts to this scenario. Six months ago you were in a hospital for 18 hours, in pain and feeling typically horrible. After 4-8 weeks your pain finally is gone, but there’s a new problem… you’re completely incapable of sleeping a full night. Four months later, you are finally getting a solid night of sleep, it feels amazing, but don’t think you’re out of the woods just yet. Now you are diligently trying to safeguard your home, one slip up could be disastrous. While it may not sound like it THIS is the time of your life. The investment of time and money is more than anything else you will do with you life, however, the return is so much greater! You have the privilege every morning to look upon an angel’s sleeping face, and smell the sweetest fragrance. When you hold said baby in your arms you know that you’d do it all over again; pregnancy, labor, sleepless nights, just for one more second with your beautiful child.
Continue reading ‘The Time of Your Life, Don’t Be Overwhelmed’
September 13th, 2008
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By Rachel Draker
Odds and Ends… its the title of a chapter in Anne of Avonlea and when I picked up my tattered copy the other day I noticed those three words were underlined. Why? Because my life is full of them. I stick out. I am Hawaiian/Irish/Native American.
I am a contradiction. When I was seven I asked my Grandmother how to describe my nationality for a project in school and she said, in a tone of reproach – “Just say you’re made up of odds and ends and leave it at that.”
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September 12th, 2008
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By Toni Slowinski
Everyone who has kids should be able to relate to this story. My 10 year old son goes to bed one night with this green slimy stuff that he got at his birthday party and falls asleep with it on his finger. During the night the green stuff turns liquidy and covers his sheets and his shirt to the point where I seriously thought they were ruined. What made him do that, who knows – kids are so unpredictable and do things we can never explain!
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September 12th, 2008
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By April Williams
Last night one if my ten year old twins told me that he noticed a new number when he was going through my cell phone. I stood there in shock and dread hit me like a cannonball in the gut. I realized that I am raising my children to think that it’s normal for a mother not to have an “opposite sex relationship” outside of being a good mother. His tone and demeanor suggested that I was in trouble for having a male name in my phone. Where is the boundary between mothering and answering to that inner woman? Why is it that some of us feel like we are bad mothers for wanting to date sometimes? I asked a few parents and the response I got was encouraging and fair. There has to be an understanding with children that they are always first and will continue to be, but mom or dad will have to have time for other adults.
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September 11th, 2008
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By Rossi Davis
You may have been with you partner for many years or just several months. One of the secrets to making you relationship work as a well-lubed machine is bringing flavor into it on a consistent basis. Think of your relationship as an exotic meal and you and your partner as the cooks.
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September 10th, 2008
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By Jessica Nichols
Marriage, you think happily ever after, right. Well you are probably wrong. Marriage is a wonderful, but it is also work. My husband I have been married 2 1/2 years. We have 2 kids. I just turned 21. No one thought we would last. Yes, it has been very hard. I guess like a roller coaster. One minute you are up the next, you are down. Marriage is more than good looks. It’s about being able to talk to the other person, about understanding one another. Basically treating your partner like your best friend. I believe marriage is very hard, but if you stick together, it’s very rewarding.
September 10th, 2008
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By MaryAnn Feudale
Just recently I have joined the ranks of the “empty nesters”. My daughter moved out this past April, and that was because of the birth of her daughter. I found out that my daughter was pregnant last August, and though it is a time of joy, it became a source of a lot of harsh words, blame throwing, and tantrums, all on my end.
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September 10th, 2008
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By Debbie Cluff
I was reading a recent post on twitter which said a SAHM wanting to be a WAHM. I thought those were the strangest acronyms and quickly googled them to see what they meant. I guess SAHM means “Stay at Home Mom” and WAHM is a “Work at Home Mom”. Having just gone through the program created on www.powerstrategies.tv I have now have officially become a WAHM. Amazing that finding one program, a program that actually supports being a WAHM and will discount their program because they see value in who I am, can change my life. I know you have heard this a million times, but Kim Power Stilson is the real thing and she really wants Women, Small Businesses, and Stay at Home Parents to become successful and accomplish their dreams. So about the business I have…
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September 10th, 2008
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By Andrea Coley
Most of my days are clouded together in a fog that has not risen in a very long time. I hear talk about having a “fulfilled” life and I wonder what does that feel like. My life is good. I don’t have financial wealth, but I am happily married to a wonderful man who adores me, is kind to me and is the father of our two healthy, actively beautiful boys. We are not faced with any major financial or health issues. Continue reading ‘Motherhood’
September 9th, 2008
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By Luann Dawkins
I was at a party the other night with my husband and was in a nice conversation with two women I had just met. My husband (lets call him Barney) was standing behind me conversing with the husbands of these women and had also just met them. Of course when a wife is within earshot of her husband she always has one ear on his conversation, we have to make sure he is not divulging state secrets about our household or making a fool out of us. So, I was listening to his story and low and behold he said the words….MY WIFE DOESN’T WORK!!!!
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