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Last week things got kinda heavy on this normally light-hearted blog when I shared my pregnancy journal of the baby I lost at 9 weeks. Back when I was struggling with my loss I remember wishing more had been written about the anxiety and mixed emotions involved with deciding to try again. I wish I could offer more to the Mommy Friend facing such […]
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[Image credit] Like a lot of my Mommy Friends, I’m a Yes Woman. I want to be everywhere and do everything for everyone. I want to be the first person on your invite list, thought of as a valuable contributor and your general go-to gal. In the prolific words of Cheap Trick, “I want you […]
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If you follow Mommyfriend on Facebook (thank you, thank you very much), you already know that I have been selected as a Yahoo! Shine Parenting Guru based on this post about one Grinchy Big Daddy P and the making of a beloved and totally cheeseball family tradition. Yahoo! Shine is my absolute favorite online magazine (scout’s honor) because it is filled with […]
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Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. In honor of this important day, I thought long and hard about whether or not to share my story. My head told me not to but my heart disagreed. Below is my personal pregnancy journal of the baby I lost but will always remember. June 20, 2006: The First Step While we haven’t […]
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I’m a slave to a few things in my life: My kids My house My blog My hair And not necessarily in that order. Last year I decided to trade in my mid-length hair for something with a little more spunk. While the decision to go short was thought of as bold, it was actually […]
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My Dearest Boy Wonder, Everything I have learned about motherhood was first taught by you. How quickly 8 wonderful years have passed. I remember being 8 really well and trying so hard in school and struggling. I remember fighting with my friends, hating piano lessons and slowly discovering life wasn’t fair. I remember all […]
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I asked Big Daddy P to illustrate Little BooBoo for an upcoming and yet-unwritten post….this is what I got, a masterpiece! If you ask me, this drawing belongs in a children’s book, not on my little website. It has become painfully obvious his future’s so bright, he’s gotta wear shades. You already know Big Daddy […]
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The more things change… …the more they stay the same. This handmade baby quilt, now faded, tattered and torn, has seen Boy Wonder through nearly 8 years of sleepless nights, teething, fevers, bedtime stories, nightmares, bedwetting, chilly nights and of course, the sweetest of dreams. Here’s to growing up, but not too fast.
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[Image credit] OK, I’m going to publicly come out with this. I’m tired, and when I get tired I get snarky. The only thing worse than a tired Mommyfriend is a hungry one. I might actually have to do the blog walk of shame tomorrow, promise you’ll still love me tomorrow… After I became a mother I […]
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The Untitled GenX Podcast
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