Hi Bloggy moms! Just wanted to let you know I've started designing free Facebook Timeline Banner backgrounds, as well as social media icons! These are free for use! I will be working on more designs and colors, so keep checking back! Head over to see what's already available!

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 You've got that divatude from the inside out...not the outside in...the wonderful…

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I know my 11-year-old son is a capable child.  He likes to help his dad out at the store and recently our neighbors hired him to look after their cats while they are away on vacation.  He does well in school, is a brown belt in karate, loves to play everything from "Bach Minuet in G Major" to "Moves Likes Jagger" on the piano, puts his dirty clothes in the hamper (mostly), keeps his room fairly neat, is always up and dressed for school on time, is helpful,…

I’m standing at the kitchen counter about to start dinner.  I open the cabinet to round up the ingredients for this evening’s meal and I see it, that seemingly innocent white-lidded jar, beckoning my attention.  I look away and continue gathering my supplies, but its call is too great to ignore.  I remove the Nutella  from the cabinet and slowly…

So, you have this baby. Most likely, there is some major event (be it a wedding, black tie affair or ceremony to celebrate how awesome you are) that just happens to be immediately following this whole having a baby thing you have going on. What in the hell can you expect to look like in the first month, and more importantly, what should you wear?! You can't try on clothes now since that big ol' bump will be drastically smaller, but other parts of you might be...um...bigger. Here are some…

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Last Sunday was Mother's Day, and it was wonderful. But last Saturday was Father's Day - actually Father-Son Day, and it was pretty great, too.

That was the day my husband and son traveled down from our home in Michigan to Indianapolis for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's opening day. They watched the cars, ate a few track dogs, did a lot of walking and shopping and most importantly, spent a lot of time talking

The drivers were onsite, and my normally…

Wow am I behind on these... Well, not time to catch up like the present! In this Open Adoption Roundtable, we've been asked to respond to the following: Write about open adoption agreements. Is there one in your open adoption? What effect does it have on your relationships? If you could go back in time, would you approach the agreement differently?…

I was recently given the opportunity to review a party eBook from Party Craft Secrets. They have an amazing selection of party themes to choose from such as a Ballet, Fairy,  Jungle, Mermaid, Pirate and Princess so there is something for your little girl or boy. Head over to their website
www.partycraftsecrets.com and you can view a 10 page preview for each theme to help you determine which would be best for your…

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I was looking for some great learning Products the other day and I ran into Polliwog Learning products on Etsy. Etsy is one of my favorite places to shop, I love supporting the little businesses like Polliwog. Michele the owner of Polliwog Learning…

So, I'm somewhat active on http://www.bloggymoms.com/. When I first signed up, I started a topic asking if anyone else was a non-custodial parent. I have views, but not even one response. Not good, not "me too", not bad. NOTHING. That's interesting to me.

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The chief bridesmaid just like a steward, she leads other bridesmaids help the bride to have a perfect wedding. That’s to say, the bridesmaid will burden a lot to. If you will act as a bridesmaid, do you make your responsibilities clearly?




A perfect wedding is decided by the details. We know it will cost you many time to plan your wedding in order and pick a perfect wedding dress, but you want to have a dreamlike and complete wedding, you’d better pay more attention on the…

Since Android is open source software, AT&T and HTC are free to install it on any handset they choose. But like any high-end Android phone, the HTC One X is Google-certified so it can ship with pre-installed Google software, including the Play App Store, Navigator, Gmail and others. It’s not that hard for handset makers and carriers to get that approval — in fact it’s too easy.

The whole promise of Android was that it was an open ecosystem — a contrast Google loves to draw with…

"The Giving Tree" is one of my favorite children's books. I must have read it a million times to my three older kids over the years, but Spike is just getting into story time so we never read it.



I had mixed feelings when Spike's school announced that the school would be putting on a production of The Giving Tree as a musical. Happy because I love that story and I would get to share it with another one of my children and surprised and worried because his school…