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Who’s Karen?

October 16, 2007

We have a friend. She’s cool — you’d like her. She has a funny food blog >> offthemeathook.com:: lifestyles of the carnivorous & fabulous. Karen’s not a mom but a really cool auntie and when she stumbles upon quirky products or fun activities for little kids and babies, she shares them with us.

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The doors on the bus…are hard to get through

September 12, 2007

We received this helpful message from a local reader, rookie mom Andrea, who’s had varying degrees of luck and rudeness from different bus drivers. She dares to ask the question: Can I leave my child in the baby stroller while on the bus? Here’s hoping that her research can help at least one other mom [...]

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Eight things about me (Whitney)

August 22, 2007

Angela White of A Nice Cup of Lizard has tagged me to join in the “8 Random Facts About Me” meme. I asked her for an extension immediately since I have a tiny baby to take care of, but since both my kids are asleep right now, it turns out I have time to write. [...]

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Light Iris for light-weight searchers

June 1, 2007

Light Iris is a recently launched search engine for new moms. Before it launched, when all we could see was the blog of the founder, we were intrigued because he is a man wearing a pregnancy belly in order to gain empathy for pregnant women. He has kids already, so he and Whitney were in [...]

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How to work at home while your kids are wee

May 25, 2007

I’m struggling with this myself. Is it possible to earn a little money from home while I’m being mom at the same time? Holden has childcare in our home weekdays until 2pm. Milo has me for childcare 24/7. And that childcare costs $$ so I’m looking around for little extra sompn-sompn (something something, is that [...]

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How not to talk to your kids

April 14, 2007

I read about this study on Mom-101 (during a middle of the night feeding) and considered it… how do you praise your child for his efforts and not his talents? Hmmm, sounds hard. Today I read it in its entirety and consider this piece from NY Magazine required reading in my house: The Power (and [...]

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Minor Victory

March 27, 2007

Yep, it’s 9:09 and I’ve showered, had breakfast, fed Milo (upteen times), made Holden lunch, and gotten Milo to take a nap somewhere off of my person. I think these things happened around noon yesterday. It’s the little things. Interestingly, noon yesterday is when I discovered the little pot of coffee Alec left on the [...]

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Boo hoo, today’s a rough one

March 26, 2007

Yep, Alec is back at work. This means: I’m alone on night-time duty after being spoiled with catching up on 16 episodes of Heroes and several dvd’s together. I have to learn his super tight swaddle and shooshing technique — I think I can I think I can He’s back to earning money so we [...]

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Blog exchange: famous mom guessing game

February 1, 2007

Hey there! If you’re looking for the blog exchange guessing game, it’s on our other site: Activity #464: Guess which famous mom wrote this.

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And, finally, Tag, you’re it!

January 15, 2007

We want to tag the following good sports for “5 Things You Do Not Know About Me!”: Our real world pals; Sunny, Darci, and Lesbian Dad plus our Internet pals; Lisa at Baggermania and Damselfly at Growing a Life.

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Our costumes

August 3, 2006

Photo by betsythedevine. We made these shirts on Zazzle and wore them at Blogher. We were like make-up free booth babes without a booth.

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BlogHer notes

July 24, 2006

This is where I’ll be liveblogging a few sessions for the BlogHer conference on July 28 and 29. On Day 1, topics will be Audience Building and $$$ Generation. On Day 2, you can read about the workshops that are titled “From Here to Autonomy” and “Is Your Blog a Gallery or a Canvas?”

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