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4boysmother: August 2014
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! Eat It Up People! I hope so. Then listen up! I have a cookbook to give away. Yep. I have my first real and true blog giveaway, and I can’t think of a better thing for me to give away than a COOKBOOK! The lovely folks over at Random House and Blogging for Books have offered to give one of my readers a copy of this-. The BT.C. Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook. Ya’ll, this is an awesome. It's got that great, new book smell! Here is my review of the book-. 8221; I said, R...
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4boysmother: December 2014
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! The 5 Stages of Christmas Eve Toy Assembly. Twas the Night Before Christmas. The kids finally asleep. And the hour when all parents have to dig really deep. It is the night where you'll make memories you later will tell. For moms and dads worldwide have entered Little Tikes hell. While you're wishing for mistletoe to get in the mood. Instead you are realizing you're totally screwed. The toys to assemble. The bike and that truck. The hoop and the dollhouse. 2 Blame- 1 am.
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4boysmother: November 2014
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! Morning Routines of Regular Moms. First of all, thank you to 4boysmother Facebook fan Jennifer Hoen Dotson for making sure I saw this Forbes article. Knowing I would have some. Lovely words to put together in response to, well, the pure insanity. Now onto the "The Morning Routines of 12 Women Leaders." What in the actual EFF is this? Has being just an average regular mom for the last 16 years left me somewhere underneath the rock of success and womanly leadership?
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4boysmother: October 2014
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! Why College Football Is Like Raising Kids. I have a few…. They scare me. I am the undersized offensive lineman looking deep into the face of a much larger D-back. Please teenage boy who just inhaled two rotisserie chickens, don’t jump over here and startle me. Hands to the Face. Need to do some concussion research? He wakes up two seconds after you put him down. Overtime. All the kiddos tucked in for the night? You are rockin’ the mom thing hard, your kitchen flo...
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4boysmother: June 2014
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! Giving Your Kids a 1970s Summer? This Is What They Should Be Reading. With the surprising success of a little blog post I wrote about how I spent my summers as a child in the 1970s, I figured I would ride the viral wave a bit longer, and simultaneously resurrect some of the best children’s and young adult fiction that was ever published. In my post, Top Ten Ways To Give Your Kids A 1970s Summer. The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. By E L. Konigsburg. I can happily read this over a...
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4boysmother: January 2015
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! New Year's Running Resolutions Already Waning? Try Running for a Charity. Three reasons to run a race as somebody's hero this year. Messages your way. It often takes a village to get and stay in shape. 2 An entry into the big popular races. Offer the opportunity to run as a St. Jude Hero for many well-known regional races across the country, both big and small. Can't get to one of those? No problem. If you have your own event or smaller local race, you can still ru...
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4boysmother: May 2015
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! The Original Top 10 Ways to Give Your Kids a 1970s Summer. It is officially the end of May. The Pinterest pages, Facebook feeds, and family magazine features are loaded up with all the activities you should do with your kids summer. AS. IF. As if we need more activities. MORE I say! As if I am sitting here, ok, really lying here in my end of school year coma, thinking, "OMG! Wait, hold it! We will invite the neighborhood kids over, serve vegan popsicles, watermelon chu...
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4boysmother: March 2015
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! That Time a Man Told Me His Time Was More Valuable Than Mine. This is basically an opinion (OPINION! Piece about the unbelievable ignorance a person can express in one single sentence. In this case, I believe it was ignorance of the value of motherhood. But before we get into that, let’s just. He wrote, “His time was more valuable than mine.”. Let’s just let that sink in for a sec. His time is more valuable than my time. Period. There can't be any, right? Or perhaps my...
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4boysmother: March 2013
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Support St. Jude. Support St. Jude! My Cookbook Love Affair by Melissa F. One of my cookbook shelves. When the average American woman looks at a gorgeous $100 dress and thinks, “Soooo pretty. I MUST have to wear out to that special dinner! 8221; I look at a $100 dress and think, “ $100? That’s a Demeyere 2 quart sauté pan! Must have to cook dinner in! 8221; I had asked. “Oh, I just know.” Impossible, I thought. How can you NOT measure? Have you NOT heard of SMUCKER’S? Those are some of the recipes storie...
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