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Stop Forcing Us to Breastfeed

Stop Forcing Us to Breastfeed

  Before you get all blah-blah-blah on me, I’m a proponent of breastfeeding. I actually breastfed my baby … until I had to stop breastfeeding and bottle feed her because of a medical condition she acquired. That’s why I’m a  little annoyed that New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has now put breastfeeding on his radar–more importantly, he [...]

Who Cares if New Yahoo CEO Works Through Maternity Leave?

Who Cares if New Yahoo CEO Works Through Maternity Leave?

    The mom community is once again on fire about something in the news. Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive turned new Yahoo CEO, is coming under fire for revealing that she will work through her maternity leave instead of taking the allotted time off. “I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My [...]

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Perfect Woman According to ‘Men’s Health’ (and a Crayon Drawing Just As Ridiculous As the Study)

Perfect Woman According to ‘Men’s Health’ (and a Crayon Drawing Just As Ridiculous As the Study)

  Well, guys, you’ve done it again. You’ve managed to reduce women to a ridiculous picture of perfection that will never happen. Thanks for perpetuating that. Men’s Health has come out with a composite of the perfect woman–11 qualities, according to their men, that make up their dream woman.  (Sigh. I know.) Even though they [...]

WritRams eShortz | MRMC: Unicorn Sighting

WritRams eShortz | MRMC: Unicorn Sighting

  More riveting marital conversations (MRMC). This is a real conversation that took place between my husband and me. (We’re not really cartoon characters. We just play them on the Internet.) ALSO ON WRITRAMS : eShortz | MRMC: Abercrombie Fit

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Apparently We Aren’t Home Owners’ Association People

Apparently We Aren’t Home Owners’ Association People

| May 7, 2013 | 7 Comments

  Our last house was on the water and, like many waterfront locations, it wasn’t in a neighborhood. This meant that you had million dollar homes intermingled with not-so-million-dollar-homes. People pretty much did what they wanted. Where we live now is in a neighborhood … with a home owners’ association. It’s not our first neighborhood, [...]

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Karing Card Club | Happiness

Karing Card Club | Happiness

| May 6, 2013 | 1 Comment

  When I agreed to partner up and help get the word out about the Karing Card Club for bloggers, I didn’t realize how much I would look forward to the mail each month. Remember when you used to get excited when people would send you fun stuff in the mail? Well, I had forgotten [...]

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Earth Day Indiana Festival Fun for Families

Earth Day Indiana Festival Fun for Families

| April 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

  Thank you to Indiana Family of Farmers for allowing me to write about this important festival. Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22nd as a way to educate and enlighten people about how we live and how we affect our planet. This year, Indianapolis is celebrating the Earth Day Indiana Festival on Saturday, April 27,  from [...]

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Help Animals and Strut Your Stuff at Indy Mutt Strut

Help Animals and Strut Your Stuff at Indy Mutt Strut

| April 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

  Thank you to Indiana’s Family of Farmers for allowing me to be part of this amazing event and organization. You can even read about one of our rescues featured on the Indy Humane site. If you’ve read me for a while, you know that we are  animal rescuers. Since we moved back to Indianapolis [...]

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Karing Card Club | 6 Reasons I Joined a Blogger Card Club (And Why You Should, Too)

Karing Card Club | 6 Reasons I Joined a Blogger Card Club (And Why You Should, Too)

| April 6, 2013 | 5 Comments

I have been blessed to connect with so many amazing women doing great things on Project Purse Club. That’s where I “met” Kendra. Kendra came up with a great idea after realizing how the bully bloggers get attention, but there are so many non-bully bloggers out there. Kendra said: After thinking this through, I have [...]

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Who’s Your Daddy?

Who’s Your Daddy?

| March 25, 2013 | 2 Comments

  If you are a pet family, you are probably aware that your pet picks a person and loves them better than the rest of the family. There’s no use trying to deny it, your dog or cat loves you or one of the other people in your family better. In my family, the male [...]

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Indianapolis Zoo’s New Butterfly Kaleidoscope Provides Fun, Respite for All Ages

Indianapolis Zoo’s New Butterfly Kaleidoscope Provides Fun, Respite for All Ages

| March 23, 2013 | 1 Comment

    I was excited to get to preview the new Butterfly Kaleidoscope at the Indianapolis Zoo, however I wasn’t prepared for the effect that had on me. I’ve had a super hectic past six weeks with illnesses and other stuff going on in our lives, and I didn’t really realize how stressed I was until [...]

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Cats, Comics or Kids: Shocking Truth About What We Support

Cats, Comics or Kids: Shocking Truth About What We Support

| March 20, 2013 | 6 Comments

  I love those online donation sites, don’t you? You know, the ones where people post their projects and then ask for donations to fund them? It’s amazing to me to see the creativity out there. For some of these sites, I get automated emails that highlight popular projects and what people are funding. A [...]

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Honor Your Agriculture |  A Celebration of Indiana’s Agriculture Appreciation Month

Honor Your Agriculture | A Celebration of Indiana’s Agriculture Appreciation Month

| March 17, 2013 | 1 Comment

  I grew up in Indiana. My childhood memories are filled with rows and rows of cornfields surrounding us everywhere we drove. And, when it wasn’t corn, it was soybeans. Although my parents grew up farming, they weren’t farmers by the time I entered the picture. We had a garden, that seemed huge to my young [...]

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