It’s Not Shopping — It’s a Military Engagement

| September 27, 2010

I’ve turned the Type A Mom conference (fantastic – everybody should go next year) into an extended family vacation, minus my husband who needed to return to work this week. While it’s wonderful to no longer be constricted by a corporate work schedule myself, I am not crazy about the “Stay-at-Home Fifteen” I’ve gained. Today [...]

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Dear Daisy, Be the Tortoise. You Will Still Get There. Love, Daisy

| September 20, 2010

We’re two weeks (and change) into the Leap Out of Your Box challenge.   I am working still on learning how NOT to be a Too, Too Daisy.   I’ve considered that a big part of that challenge means I must make do with progress, not perfection, but I don’t think that’s quite enough.   [...]

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Top Five Most Arrogant Reasons I Blog

| September 17, 2010

It’s the last day of the B2B challenge.   The SITStahs want to hear why it is that we blog.  There are the warm fuzzy reasons, like a sense of belonging (SITStahood) and a record of memories, but I thought it would be fun to put out there some of my less noble motivations. Here [...]

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What Does it Mean to be a Mother, and What’s Mad Men Got to Do With It?

| September 16, 2010

Today’s back2blogging task was not an easy one. No going back to the well of earlier posts. Instead we are to write about “a woman who inspires” us. I could write about my own mother and not be lying, but that seems trite. I’ve decided to wax philosophical about my current favorite TV character and [...]

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Back2Blogging: Hump Day

| September 15, 2010

Day three of the back-to-blogging game asks that we resurface a post the title of which we are particularly proud.   I am going to toss two out there, for very different reasons.  I liked this one: A Woman of Advanced Maternal Age — because it was a raw and honest post that needed a [...]

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