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6 Months | Baby Milestones & 10 Best Baby Products
A lot is changing when your baby turns 6 months old! Find the best baby products for all the baby milestones your little one is hitting at this time!
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How to Lose 5 Pounds in a Month | Weight Loss Goals Made Easy
Maximize your weight loss efforts with this easy to follow diet plan. See how to lose 5 pounds in a month without exercise!
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Should I Adopt? | Adoption after Infertility
If you are or have been struggling with infertility you may be thinking that the next step is adoption. Adoption after infertility, however, is not always the answer. If you are asking yourself, “Should I adopt?” you should first ask yourself these seven questions. If any of these circumstances apply to you, settle them before you move forward with the adoption process. These may be difficult questions with difficult answers, but the purpose of this article is to define how seriously the decision to adopt should be taken. They are intended to make you think and analyze your reasons, intentions, and expectations. If you’re asking yourself, “Should I adopt?”, first…
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How to be Vulnerable | Why be Vulnerable?
There is a lot of confusion around vulnerability. Vulnerability is usually looked as a weakness. That is because society tends to think that in order to be vulnerable you must expose your whole self. However, spewing your guts about everything you are and every thought that you have is not how to be vulnerable. So what is vulnerability? How can you be vulnerable? Why should you be vulnerable? I was inspired to write this post after a trip to the zoo yesterday with my toddler and baby. My toddler, by nature, is the absolute sweetest soul. She is incredibly outgoing and friendly to everyone she meets. She knows what strangers…
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Mother’s Day | Meaningful Gifts with Your Photos
The most meaningful gifts that you can give your mom for Mother’s Day are personalized gifts. When you were little and you made your mom a necklace out of yarn and colored pasta her face would light up. That was because it was made by you specifically for her. She knew that it was made with thought and love. As adults, giving your mother a noodle necklace for Mother’s Day might not go over as well… Luckily, there are companies like Snapfish that allow you to easily create personalized, meaningful gifts for any occasion. I first started using Snapfish when I created our profile books for our adoptions. I fell…
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Easy Candy Recipe | Jell-O Candy
My toddler and I are OBSESSED with candy! It’s safe to say that we spend a minor fortune on candy at our house. For example, when at the pediatrician, my toddler looked at the food pyramid and questioned why there wasn’t a candy category… So one day, we were both wanting candy and somehow didn’t have any at home. We had to come up with something! That was the day that I created this easy candy recipe! I started with looking up different candy or gummy recipes and I found this one made with Jell-O but it also required gelatin. I didn’t have any plain gelatin. I decided to go…
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Bunny Footprint Template | Easter Fun for Kids
Having Easter bunny footprints throughout the house is a tradition from my childhood. Now that I have children I want to share with them the joy and excitement of finding Easter bunny footprints in the house on Easter morning! So to make it easier on myself, I made an Easter bunny footprints template to make the tracks with and I want to share it with you! If you haven’t heard of having Easter bunny footprints in your house before now, here is how they started in our family: We would go to my grandmother’s house every year for Easter when I was growing up. Easter morning was always so exciting…
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Easy Easter Side Dishes | All You Need is a Microwave
The holidays can be stressful! Especially if you are doing the cooking! With most of staying home this year for Easter, it may be the first time you have to cook Easter dinner! Take the stress out of dinner prep with these seven easy Easter side dishes! All you need for these amazingly easy Easter side dishes is a microwave! Save yourself some time and the mess of cooking without sacrificing any flavor! These easy side dishes never fail to impress! All you’ll need is a microwave, a microwavable casserole dish with a lid and a few other staple kitchen tools (like a bowl and potato peeler) and you are…
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