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Toy War by Memoossa on www.sxc.ru Found this video on AOL of Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson’s mother — but because it’s an AP Video, I won’t embed the video from any of the sources I’ve found. Just click here to watch the video .
The Army cook is a single ...
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career
Thanks to Alejandro for sending me this link. The AP ( all over, but as found in the New York Times ) is reporting that an army mom and single mother decided to miss her deployment date because she had no one to take care of her child while she was in Afghanistan.
She says she was told she ...
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Single Parenting
Around this time of year I start to miss drinking coffee that comes in one pound cans.
Weird, but true.
You see, my grandmother used to make pumpkin bread and bake it in those metal coffee cans. The bread would come out in a corrugated cylinder, we’d slice it and then quarter it, ...
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My skin still breaks out. At forty-something. Pretty hard on the old self-esteem. I’m self-conscious about it.
I’ve tried a whole host of products to ‘cure’ it, both over the counter and prescription, but nothing quite works. To top it off, I have oily skin, which ...
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Acne
In the wake of Ft. Hood, parents are facing hard questions from their children. How do you talk to your kids about issues of race, religion, mental health… senseless acts of violence?
I spoke at length ad nauseum to Jennifer Hewitt over at iVillage on Monday about hands on approaches to ...
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Yesterday, I brought the King of Everything to my office. It was Veterans’ Day, and we’d had our slumber party the night before at the hotel, and had a taste of everything at the breakfast bar, packed up, and walked to my work. He had his books, his books on tape, his Leapster. We ...
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This no home to go to thing is getting very. very. old. I feel like I’m stuck in a Shakespeare loop: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and…
Ouch. This has been very disruptive, for both me and my son, but I think it’s been harder on me. My kid has my parents, ...
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divorce
That got your attention, didn’t it?
Seems that a popular stroller can clip a kid’s finger off when it’s unfolding. The Wall Street Journal , the Christian Science Monitor and ABC News are just a few of the outlets covering the story, but I found out about it from a fellow ...
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Maclaren
Monitor
This has been quite a week. We’ve been in and out of bed and breakfasts and hotels since Wednesday.
Maintaining a healthy diet is hard when you’re living out of a suitcase. We loaded up on fresh berries at the breakfast buffet this morning, but our menu has been seriously lacking ...
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Health
Our property manager isn’t much on the managing part of things. Case in point: if she had made the repairs she had promised in the summer of 2008, my apartment wouldn’t have flooded again in 2009, and then my floors wouldn’t have buckled and warped and popped out — a Hot ...
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I have to think about the Fort Hood shootings for my job, and today it’s all I can think about. The reptilian part of our brains are taking over again, and fear threatens to overwhelm empathy and rational thought.
I know people struggling with great mental burdens. But I do not know ...
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Single Parenting
I met a woman recently… a beautiful, vibrant, sassy woman. I don’t take to people immediately, but I liked her on sight. I was going to give her a quick belly dancing lesson one Sunday night.
She was found strangled to death in her own apartment this week. She was a single woman. ...
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Safety
Single Parenting
Or, “Why I’m posting this from a bed and breakfast up the street because they finally decided to fix my floor, but I had to move everything fragile out of the dining room. Srsly.”
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The National Women’s Law Center has a powerful campaign to stop discriminatory and harmful practices in health care coverage… practices that label rape and spouse abuse as ‘pre-existing conditions’ and force women to choose between their health and their finances. I ...
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Health
Last week I uploaded a drive-by post about running into a woman considering becoming a single mother by choice at a summit we were both attending. Because it was a Blackberry post, and because I’ve been working non-stop for over two weeks, I didn’t have the time to stop and really ...
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Single Parenting
I’m slowly getting the hang of this organized thing. You know, a place for everything and everything in its place?
It’s hard.
I’m trying to make it easier…
One of the weekly tasks I assign myself is to take a half an hour on Sunday night when the Kid is asleep ...
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I haven’t seen the King of Everything since Wednesday morning, and very little before then — work has killed me these past two weeks. I worked until midnight on Wednesday night and attended a working convening on Human Rights messaging on Thursday and Friday. The two days with like ...
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divorce
My kid is so excited about Halloween. His costume is all ready — Harry Potter in his Quidditch robes — and he’s planning his trick or treat route. He is also terribly concerned that someone stay at the house to pass out candy!
I was wondering, are you letting your kids go ...
