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McDonald’s #Giveaway – US Only
Well, if you are a regular follower here then you know all about the fact that I just got back from Blogher 12. It was such an amazing opportunity for me and I am so greateful to my sponsors: John Frieda, Conceivable Dreams and Conte’s Pasta. Inevitably when you go to these things you end up with a lot of items and products, some you can’t even begin to use. Anyways, over the next few weeks I will be passing some of these on to you fabulous friends. Today, I have some for product coupons for McDonald’s meals. Did you know McDonald’s has several meals that are Favourites Under 400…
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Our First Night at #Blogher12 – Wordless Wednesday #linky
My first trip to Time Square New York City for Blogher 12. It was a day of endless delayed flights and then finally we were there, dead exhausted and hungry as could be, but the thing about the city that never sleeps is that it’s far too exciting to even think about a silly little thing like shut eye. So we explored instead. Wordless Wednesday is a linky hosted on several blogs.
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Barbie Tales and #SaveWithBarbie
The Barbies are dreaming, dancing, laughing, growing, breathing live stories into my daughter’s pink room again. In my daughter’s hands, their adventures are never dull. From the time my children were first adopted Barbie has been a big part of their lives in this house full of girls. When I speak to groups of potential adoptive parents I always tell the story of my children becoming sisters. And the Barbie’s role in that process is key.From the start my oldest girl loved her Barbies. She was not yet three when this Midge doll in full painted bikini was gifted to her and she was in love. Over the years the…
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When You’re Not the Real Mom #adoption
A photo of birth Mom and birth Dad sits in Ainsley’s room on her dresser. It is impossible to miss. A paper printout captured fast, by Ainsley’s first fostermom, a gut reaction from an experienced foster parent who instinctively knew they were about to run. Caught in a lie of some sort involving drugs, alcohol, crimes that may or may not have meant they could parent a baby. The day after the photo, they fled the hospital. I am grateful to the core of my being for this tangible thing my daughter has, ever so small a mirror of her start. No baby would go home with them this time.…
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Conte’s Pasta: The Family Business is Great Food
(This is a sponsored post – Conte’s Pasta has sponsored me for Blogher ’12. ) In 1970, Angela Conte came to the U.S.A from Italy with her husband and three sons. They arrived in New York and moved to the suburb of Boston, MA. Angela Conte was an avid watcher of her mother and grandmother and she learned well the passion of creating fresh pasta. At a very young age, she spent many hours in the kitchen learning how to build semolina flour into fresh pasta dough. Many days, the grownup Angela, she would make pasta for her family and her neighbors as well. It was at that time that…
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August #Bloggersdance On My Way to #Blogher 12
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I Didn’t Know I Was a Health Blogger until…
A funny thing happened on the way to my first rodeo – or my first trip to Blogher. I was signing up last minute as I do, because life is busy, when all the schedules started coming and they were addressed to this health and fitness track blogger. Health Blogger? Fitness blogger? Now, I’ve been blogging a good three years easily. And I can tell you categorically that I have not once thought of myself as a health blogger. I am, at times, all over the map here. I know it. I like a lot of things and I like to stretch myself as well. I talk adoption, special needs,…
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Udi’s Gluten Free Products_ Review
Now, I am not gluten free. Not right now. I have been at various points in the past due to my health issues. And for a time my youngest child was gluten free also. While she didn’t have an allergy to gluten, we were trying the diet to see if she responded due to behavioral concerns at that time. Despite that disclaimer, I want you to know that I have dozens of friends and dozens of my friend’s children also who are gluten free – for a whole host of reasons. Some are required to be off all traces of gluten, because they are allergic. Others are intolerant to gluten,…
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Monday Mingle: July30, The Three Cs.
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I’m Having Their Baby – on Oxygen – Review
In the course of under one hour watching this second episode of I’m Having Their Baby, I cycled through pretty much every emotion on the spectrum for human beings. After being amazed, I cried and then was a bit angry and sad, the horrified, upset and eventually totally grateful for the experience of viewing this incredible show. I received only one episode of the show, the second one. In episode two, two pregnant moms, Claudia and Mary, are seen making the decision to place their child for adoption or raise their child themselves. Claudia is a young woman, herself adopted from Haiti. She finds herself pregnant after a brief relationship…