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MILE HIGH CLUB 4 MOMS
SPRING BREAK or I’ll BUST!
MOM 24/7 = R&R
Pimp Moms Ride
S.W. ‘s ARE DEAD! No not Stuart Weisman’s, Station Wagons! Volvo announced yesterday it will cease and desist of making their iconic Wagons (sales averaging only 2 per dealership/year), Audi and Mercedes are not far behind. Trendy moms (and not so trendy moms) drove station wagons from 1950-1980, slowly tapering off over the past 25 [...]
The next Survivor Series?
photo credit: m.gifford Just got an e-mail suggesting this idea for a new NBC Survivor show … Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and take either music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each [...]
Interview with a NICU Doctor
Last month I was lucky enough to sit down with my son’s NICU Doctor, Mark Polak, MD, Chief of Neonatology at West Virginia Children’s Hospital in Morgantown, WV. Since having a baby in the NICU, be it three or 30 days and beyond, can stressful, I wanted to ask him who parents will meet, what they can [...]
IRS says breast is best?
photo credit: Lars Plougmann At-bloody-last! Finally some good news for nursing moms. The IRS has agreed that nursing supplies are tax deductible. But if you feed your kids formula, tough luck … read on. Breast pumps and other lactation supplies are now tax deductible as medical expenses, the Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday, February [...]
Ethan’s Story: My preemie’s fight
My second pregnancy started fine. Aside from a strange rash, and some bleeding at 13 weeks that put me on limited bed rest for a month, it was smooth sailing, until I hit 23 weeks. Rather than leaking urine like I thought I was, it was amniotic fluid. I went to the hospital, and was [...]
E-mail sign offs: What do you say? Tell us
How do you sign off an e-mail? Have you ever added a kiss or slurpy sign off to a professional e-mail by mistake? Have you ever signed off with the ubiquitous, “All The Best,” in a email to a friend and got the finger in return? photo © 2005 sophie & cie | more info(via: [...]
Healthy foods and healthy kids equal sane mom
If my kids eat badly, I feel guilty. And if they eat badly, their behavior deteriorates and I feel to blame. Several nights of fast food, and I’m blaming myself for their failure to get that Rhodes Scholarship 20 years from now. Ridiculous but true. It seems some of you carry the same mountain of [...]
The cycle of infertility … don’t wait to get help
“Mom, did you hold your dead babies?” That’s what one of my sons asked recently when we were talking about why he and his twin brother don’t have other siblings. No, I didn’t hold them. But his question made me wonder whether I should have, especially when it came to a baby I lost at [...]
6 Ways To Network Yourself Back To Work
Networking may be the best way for a mom looking to return to work to find a job in “today’s faceless, virtual world,” says Maribeth Kuzmeski, author of The Connectors: How the World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life. The trick is taking these encounters to the next level. Many moms [...]
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