By debraferrie
If you are still not on Pinterest, what are you waiting for? And if you ARE on Pinterest, are you using it to your advantage? As a girl, I cut out magazine pictures of things I wanted or just something that caught my eye. Did you do that too? But magazines were pretty limited in my house. Pinte...
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By Brooke Barker
Leopards, pandas, gorillas, oh my! On bright and sunny days, the National Zoo is where we love to be.
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the zoo is open every day except December 25. Le...
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By jenniecarlson
Hello Beautiful!
5 ways to STOP stress came about because my friend, Ester Frescas, and I were asked to speak at SLCC during Stress Awareness week. This was also the week prior to finals. When we sat down to brain storm ways of getting the message across an acronym came to me. I don't kn...
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By elissapeterson
As mamas we all want our kids to grow up to feel good about themselves and have good self esteem. At school and their little sporting events they have praise lavished upon every little effort, as we grownups attempt to make their little lives more meaningful. Sadly our efforts aren’t really en...
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By Brooke Barker
Memorial Day means a lot of things to a lot of different people. To some it means BBQs, sales at the mall, and boating. To others it is all about remembering those who have paved the way for us as Americans and as members of a family.
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By nicollerosenberg
We were looking through a kids' activity idea book and found this one: keeping flowers inside contact paper.
We cut two sheets of contact paper to the same size, then cut a piece of construction paper as the frame. We could have decorated it at this point.
Then we open...
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By Moms Gone Crazy
If you live in the South Bay (San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, etc), or anywhere in the Bay Area for that matter, you've probably been to Santana Row. If you haven't, it's a really neat strip of restaurants and stores in Santa Clara, right across the street from Westfield's Valley Fair Mall.
O...
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By jackiejames
Today I met Daisy, and she broke my heart. I've met a multitude of adorable babies at the retail store where I work, but Daisy sticks out in my mind. Daisy, a foster care child, was born HIV positive.
Her foster mom, a woman I will aptly name "Angel," and I struck up a conversation one day at...
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By Deb Gaisford
Acupuncture has gained traction in recent years among Westerners, especially for its use in attenuating pain. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, about 3.1 million Americans said they...
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By stephaniecrespin
Volunteering is a great deed done by a small number of people. I know with me, when saying I would like to give up some of my time to help, that offer is usually short lived. It turns out that I don't have time to give, and the little time I do have is taken up by family and work needs. So, ...
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