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Archive for October, 2011

Healthy apple cinnamon oatmeal

This is one of those posts that I expect to elicit a “well, duh” from many of my clever readers, but since I didn’t think of it myself until I was a mom, I thought I’d share. Oatmeal. I hate it. Or at least I did. To me it was always a bland bowl of [...]


TV for toddlers? How our family has used the tube

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently rolled out a number of new recommendations and the one that caught my attention the most was about TV use for children under two. Though I tend to keep my parenting philosophies to myself, this is a subject I am rather passionate about, as I believe that many [...]


Create a gallery wall with framed art

Grouping objects is one of my favorite ways to create a big design impact inexpensively. I’ve seen picture frame wall groupings in countless home decor magazines and I have always loved the look. I thought it would be a fun way to display Mr. Boy’s budding art talents and bring some much-needed life into my [...]


If I had a million dollars

This video has been making the rounds of the internet, and I had to jump on the bandwagon. Witness 29-year-old wife and mother Sarah Churman hearing her own voice for the first time after her Esteem hearing implant is activated:   I’ve known about the Esteem by Envoy Medical for quite some time and promised [...]


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