All Entries Tagged With: "At Home"
Trailing Spouse: Is there any Uglier Name?
This is part of a series about relocating a family internationally, called What I’ve Lost, What I’ve Gained, for BlogHer’s month of blogging. What do you call a woman or a man who follows her spouse as he or she relocates for work, often sacrificing a career and identity? These spouses pack up the family, [...]
Ugg-ly Winters in Australia
Winter in Sydney means getting warmly dressed before you go inside on a mild winter’s day. You don’t get undressed at bedtime, you get re-dressed.
Potty Training Tips and Techniques from Bright Horizons Family Solutions
photo credit: abardwell Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a fantastic webinar from our friends at Bright Horizons Family Solutions (http://www.brighthorizons.com) Parent Webinar Series entitled, “Potty Training Tips and Techniques.” Presenters Lisa Gatto, Program Lead for the Child Development Program of Isis Parenting and Cindy Meltzer, Isis Community Manager, have been there, done that [...]
YES! Your food allergy kid can eat Oreos and more!
Last fall, my son was diagnosed with multiple food allergies. I cried, panicked, and thought the world had come to an end. Since then, I’ve learned to not only live with it, but bring better health to our family. I’ve also learned to cook and bake. My son is allergic to all but two of [...]
Resolution #1 Coming Out Of The Closet
Time for a closet that suits your personality. Jill Mikols Etesse gives advice. Jill spends her spare time redoing girlfriends closets (and strutting around the house in Choo’s)….they pay her with champagne but you can pay her with virtual kisses!
CurrentMom and 168 Hours: Go back-to-school without the back-to-crazy
If your kids aren’t back at school already (if that’s the case, you have my sympathy), they soon will be. Today I am listening to the Go Back-to-school without the Back-to-Crazy Webinar presented by Laura Vanderkam of 168 hours book and blog fame and Current Mom’s Katherine Lewis. And I am going to attempt to [...]
The Princess and the Pea
Children love to explore all types of things, their environment, their bodies, the things that can fit into the tiniest spaces in their bodies. Our indoctrination began with a pea. After a few attempts at raisins, (caught in time), our daughter discovered that peas were the perfect fit for a nose.. I was out [...]
Bed rest blues…week four
I’m still pregnant, hooray! Amniotic fluid levels according to this week’s ultrasound is in the high-normal range. No signs of infection. I’m IV free, I have “outside privileges” (a.k.a. I can go into the “yard.”) Baby is approximately 2.2 lbs and I am 27 weeks. On Friday, I was told I could go home on [...]
Bed rest blues, week one
As many of you know, my husband and I are expecting a bouncing baby boy in early January. Or, at least that was the plan. On September 13th at 23 weeks pregnant, my water broke. Not a full break. It is more accurate to say that I’m leaking amniotic fluid. The diagnostic term is Preterm [...]
How safe is the swine flu shot for pregnant women?
No drug testing exists for pregnant women. Why? Because it’s deemed unethical. What if something happens to the fetus? This year, pregnant women across the U.S. are being told that they are in the highest risk group for the swine flu infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control “Adverse pregnancy outcomes have been reported [...]
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