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Family Photos 2010: All Together for a Moment in Time

August 5, 2010

The past couple of weeks have been bittersweet. We’ve often had all 10 of us together, as our oldest son has been doing summer work in town and coming home with my husband in the evenings, but we’ve been preparing to take our second son to college, out-of-state. Life as we know it will never [...]

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Your Child Needs You to be a Parent (and then you can be a friend)

July 19, 2010

Communicating with teens is not always easy. One of my biggest problems is a tendency to want to project a maturity of thought onto my kids beyond their years, and being dismayed when they don’t achieve it. We’re all a work in progress, and it takes time to get “there,” wherever “there” may be. Unfortunately, [...]

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The Bird’s Nest in My Front Porch Light

July 1, 2010

Last year we noticed a bird building a nest in our front porch light. My 15-year-old son wrapped some packing tape around the bottom to block the bird before it could lay eggs. Unfortunately, he was too late. We later noticed bird’s feathers stuck to the tape, and realized there had been eggs in the [...]

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My Baby Isn’t a Baby Anymore

June 25, 2010

With eight kids, we’ve had babies and toddlers for a long time. Over the past year it’s been a strange feeling to no longer need diapers, or much of anything from that department. The mental transition has come along gradually, the feeling that our family has moved past the baby stage. But this was the [...]

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Procter and Gamble’s “Thank You Mom” Campaign Reunites Women with Their Mothers

June 16, 2010
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My mother passed away six years ago, on my 38th birthday. Two years later, missing her was the impetus for starting my blog. During all but a short period of my life I lived close to her, so there’s no stash of cross-country letters. My treasures are handwritten recipe cards with instructions like: She would [...]

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iHeartFaces Week 19 (2nd year): Celebrating Mom

May 11, 2010

This week’s themes at iHeartFaces is “Celebrating Mom” and the guest judges are Ewan and Brianna Phelan. This is one of my best friends and her youngest daughter. I thought this was such a sweet moment.

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Back to School with Nestle: Sweet Rewards

August 13, 2009

As a child, I read somewhere that “food should never be used as a reward or a punishment.” My children are certainly grateful I didn’t take those words to heart; I believe in its use as a reward and sometimes an incentive. We mothers need everything we can get in our bag of tricks. I’m [...]

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Our Picnic had a Purpose

May 11, 2009

Saturday I hosted the Hebrew National “Picnic with a Purpose” for Atlanta, truly a perfect and memorable afternoon celebrated with family and friends, both old and new. All of the Picnics with a Purpose incorporate good food, games, face painting, a craft, and a service project. Our menu featured Hebrew National hot dogs, chips, baked [...]

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Inspire

January 7, 2009

1/365 I’m finally going to take the plunge and begin Project 365. My original goal was to start on January 1; I keep putting it off, imagining getting behind before ever beginning. The Motherhood recently kicked off their new site with a blog scavenger hunt. Although I didn’t win the grand prize, I was one [...]

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