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With the upcoming birth of our third child, I am always looking for a good way of charting our family’s developments. I’m not good with the whole scrapbooking thing. And given that Gabby’s baby book is far less filled than Drew’s, this third kid doesn’t stand a chance! The nice thing about Facebook is that I’m able to document things [...]

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I’m not exactly proud of it but sometime ago my son became obsessed with the iPad. I’m sure I’m not the first person who started exposing their child to their iPad with hopes of fifteen minutes of solitude. Well suddenly those fifteen minutes turned into forty-five minutes which led to an hour and a half…well the torture of prying it [...]

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When I had Drew, I had no idea about babies. I knew even less about baby goods. I didn’t have a ton of friends that had babies to bounce ideas off, so I lived and died by what became the bible to me (Baby Bargains). If Baby Bargains told me that I should duck tape my kid to the kitchen [...]

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This wonderful thing happens to me living in this beautiful climate…come fall everything gets dry. My knuckles start cracking, my legs start itching and my hair gets frizzy. I have dedicated my life to fighting frizz, some days more successfully than others. It probably doesn’t help matters that I have a love affair with my flat iron. Regardless, my hair [...]

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With each addition to our family came a new need in a diaper bag. So we kept evolving… Read about our previous diaper bags here. So now that baby #3 is on the way, what better way to nest than find the new bag to serve my evolving needs. These are my main issues… 1. With three kids in tote, [...]

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In case you didn’t catch it in my millions of posts about Drew’s obsession with baseball, we are a big time baseball family thanks to my four year old son. It’s baseball games, it’s pitching to him, it’s purchasing baseball paraphernalia…it’s everything having to do with baseball. So when I was given the opportunity to review a product by Make [...]

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I was recently chosen to be a part of a “Green Works Community.” I don’t know if the purpose is for people that have not been exposed to Green Works products to become exposed to them. I, however, am very familiar with the Green Works line. Everyone that was chosen was a fellow “Mommy Blogger” and I think all have [...]

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Errands are my life. Run here, run there…I think I shuffle my family around like it is in fact my job. Recently I learned of a service called, Errand Mamas, and it got me thinking… Speaking as a retired employee who would love to find a way to score a couple of extra dollars, I couldn’t help but respect these [...]

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I spent six and a half years living behind Costco. I shopped there when we entertained or for a few select items but for the most part I rarely went. People would rave at the luxury of living behind Costco and I would just sigh that it’s alright. Now that I’m a family of four, my feelings have changed. It’s [...]

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