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    Gluten Free Living on #LinkedMoms

    June 5, 2012 - By 

    Get ready for another Linked Moms chat. Tonight we are joined by Devan McGuinness of Accustomed Chaos. She is one of the best resources on line for gluten free living advice and tips. Tomorrow night #LinkedMoms chat welcomes @AccustomedChaos, otherwise known as, Devan McGuinness. Devan has celiac disease and is the author of a great blog about life with her three children and gluten free living. She also posts over at Babble.com and Grief Unspoken. I have been following Devan for close to three years. She was one of the earliest tweeple I followed and bloggers that read. I have…

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    Top Five Mistakes I Have Made #Blogging and #LinkedMoms Chat

    May 30, 2012 - By 

    In honor of my three year anniversary blogging and my guesting/ hosting night (Wednesday on #LinkedMoms) with my good friend Margarita @downshiftingpos, I thought it time to reflect. Tomorrow I will be chatting about the art of blog writing. I came to this adventure three years ago, as a stay at home Mom, hoping to bridge stay at home and work at home again. I was, in my previous life an award-winning newspaper reporter. I led teams to big awards on big topics, mostly hard news. I wrote about train wrecks, murders, massage parlors that were fronts for other things,…

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    Adult Essentials: Update on my ShesConnected Health Journey

    May 15, 2012 - By 

    Writing is a pretty sedentary activity. Yes, between all the twitter parties and the bon bon eating, navel gazing and naps, there’s scarcely any time for anything else…(cue awful sound of screechy needle dragged across a record).Say what? Truth: I run so hard and so fast most days my head spins. These are a few little snapshots of our life. When we were still for purposes of capturing a moment in time. Us in Cape Canaveral, Us doing a story and meeting the amazing Olympian Kurt Browning. Us at martial arts. The whole family trains. I run them around and…

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    Social Media Superstars – Very First Award

    May 5, 2012 - By 

    It`s here. Finally! I have been talking about this for weeks, so today this is me delivering. So what exactly is this? Social Media Superstars is my brand new award to recognize excellence in social media practices. It is exclusively for brands and companies. You may email me or contact me or DM or tweet if you think your brand deserves this award, but this is not a silly pass on the sunshine blogger award. It is serious. Because I am nothing if not serious as evidenced by my vlogs like this one  (I will not choose you because you send…

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    Addalock Review – Safe on the Go #Travel Lock

    April 30, 2012 - By 

    Addalock Review   Imagine a lock on the go. Addalock is a simple effective little invention you can toss in your suitcase and carry with you anywhere. When I heard about the device I was interested because safety is a huge priority here and because I have a child with special needs who wanders. Now, I am pretty sure that Addalock wasn’t intended necessarily as a special needs tool, but I can see useful applications here. My daughter from a very young age could get out any door and had very little impulse control, so we were hypervigilant, and we…

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    The Ultimate Blog Party 2012

    April 17, 2012 - By 

    For the first year ever I am taking part in Janice and Susan’s Ultimate Blog Party 2012. If you haven’t heard of Janice and Susan, founders and publishers over at Five Minutes For Mom, well I will just assume that you are new to the blogging world. Five Minutes For Mom  is one of those on line destinations where all the cool Moms hang out. This year the dynamic team has gathered over $21,000 in prizes to be given away on line this week. Say What? No, that is not a typo. I couldn’t believe it myself. Anyways, there are numerous…

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    My Worry Box – A PTPA Winner for Children #Giveaway

    April 17, 2012 - By 

    Does your child worry? Chances are good, if they are preschoolers on up, there are times their little minds won’t turn off the busy actions of the day. Or times their thoughts are racing. Sensitive children, gifted children, children with special needs, perfectionists, or simply children who spend a lot of time thinking. All children at one time or another handle worry, or anxiety. That’s just part of life. These days, worry and anxiety seems to be more prevalent among children than ever before. Healthy adults handle worries and anxieties every day. But most healthy adults have a toolkit of…