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Facebook Deletes Leaky Boob Support Group for Breastfeeding Moms

January 2, 2011

I just found out that Facebook deleted the Leaky Boob page, a support group of moms who helped each other out about questions concerning breastfeeding. Their justification? They deemed some picture that were posted of moms breastfeeding their children as obscene. COME ON! It’s ridiculous and such a sad commentary on our society in America [...]

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Beautiful “Nursing the Future” Breastfeeding Video

June 2, 2010

Once again, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter today — connecting with like-minded people, trying to help out, retweeting informative and funny tweets — and I came across the #holisticmoms Twitter party hosted by @HolisticMomsNet. One of their tweets led me to this beautiful video: Nursing the Future. I just love social [...]

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Mommy Bloggers and Their Depiction in the New York Times

March 17, 2010

At first I wasn’t going to chime in after reading Sunday’s the New York Times article “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” by Jennifer Mendelsohn. Then I read articles responding to it by other bloggers I respect and the many thought-provoking comments that were left. The mommy blogging word in is [...]

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“Be The Media” And Make a Living Doing What You Love

November 7, 2009

Are you an entrepreneur, artist, musician, writer, or blogger who wants to make a decent living? You can! I already blogged about how I heard David Mathison speak about using social media to market what you are passionate about and how to use social media to your advantage. In his book, Be The Media, he [...]

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Busy Moms, Treat Yourself to a Massage!

April 28, 2009

What a great day! (Except for the black ant invasion that greeted me this morning in the kitchen, ugh… Do you think 8 traps will do the trick, fast?) I got so much done, it’s beautiful outside, I had a massage . . . I made a phone call, finally ordered some new contact [...]

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How to Save Money on a Saturday — Coupons and Church Sales

March 29, 2009

Today was a great day, and even better — a frugal day. We got up after 9 a.m. (somehow Landon seems to know that it’s the weekend, during the week he gets up around 7:30 a.m. I needed that sleep, I had been up until 2 a.m. again blogging!) and ate a healthy breakfast. I made [...]

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I Don’t Get Facebook!

March 8, 2009

Am I the only one who doesn’t want 300 “friends” on Facebook? Am I the only one with a cell phone that doesn’t have a camera? Am I the only one with no interest in texting? Social media? Huh? The latest and greatest for a lot of other moms I know is being on Facebook, [...]