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Moms Living with Chronic Back Pain

Is lower back pain keeping you sitting on the sideline of your own life? Like so many moms, I have been spending the last several years carting around infants, toddlers, and groceries, picking up stray toys and toting baskets of laundry. Now that my kids are older and I am spending more time working at my desk and driving them around in endless carpools, my lower back pain is flaring up again. Chronic back pain has plagued me in my adult life. I have gone through phases in my life where I have made more time for exercise and health. … Continue reading →

Book Review – The Moms Town Guide To Getting It All

Today I learned about a book and web site that could serve as resources for some stay – at – home – moms who love what they do, yet crave something more than caring for their homes and their families. MomsTown is a web site run by two women who are dedicated to inspiring moms to create the lives that they want. Both of the women, Heather Reider and Mary Goulet, were successful professionals in the corporate world prior to starting their families. Each of them enjoyed staying at home with her children, and each of them experienced a sort … Continue reading →

Blogging to Learn

Blogging is not just for the homeschooling moms. Moms everywhere have discovered the fun and therapeutic advantages of blogging. It is a way to connect and share in a method that is visual and able to be accessed at any time. Busy moms enjoy logging online to find the advice they need on their own time schedule. However, the blogging world is not just for moms, writers, and those with a desire to chronicle their knowledge and life with others. Blogging is also becoming a popular outlet and teaching tool for students. You will find a surge of homeschooled students … Continue reading →

Book Review: All About Adoption:How Families Are Made and How Kids Feel About It

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All About Adoption: How Families Are Made and How Kids Feel About It is a book from Magination Press, which specializes in titles helping children understand tough situations or deal with feelings. (Magination Press is also the publisher of Maybe Days, a Book about Foster Care.) All About Adoption authors Marc Nemiroff and Jane Annunziata are both clinical psychologists specializing in families and children. All About Adoption starts out by saying “there are lots of different ways to have a baby. ..some parents have one baby..and some parents have two or three babies all at once. “Babies grow inside a … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Secret Language of Babies

This past week while browsing the bargain table at the bookstore, I came upon a title that really caught my eye: “The Secret Language of Babies: The Body Language of Little Bodies.” Written by Sally & Edwin Kiester, who wrote the Better Homes & Gardens New Baby Book, this book is just under 200 pages and is hard to put down. It’s full of large, colorful photos of the cutest babies (and their parents). It also features a language development charts, interesting baby facts, visual guides to interpreting baby’s body language, sounds, faces and cries, and interesting research about babies … Continue reading →

Book Review: The Heart Knows Something Different

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The Heart Knows Something Different is an anthology of writings by teenagers in foster care. These articles were originally published in a bimonthly magazine called Foster Care Youth United. They are an excellent resource for people adopting older children, since they may give a feel for the kinds of situations and feelings many older children experience prior to the adoption. Their stories are also of import to all citizens concerned about the next generation in our country. Many of these youth, though not all, are from New York City. Some of them were with foster families, although many were in … Continue reading →

Adoption Blog in Month in Review: June, Part Two

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I reflect on my co-blogger Lyn’s blog in the Education Blog about teen-age girls making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Teen mothers who plan adoption for their babies are less likely to go on welfare than those who parent as teens. Unfortunately, most mothers choosing adoption are young adults—teenagers often decide to parent. Of course, some teen moms do a fine job—but these girls will quickly realize it’s no lark. My blog Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away from You cautions that some doctors’ and dentists’ comments and policies regarding keeping parents out can be … Continue reading →

Book Review: Lucy’s Family Tree

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Lucy’s Family Tree is the story of Lucy, adopted from Mexico, who believes she cannot do a family tree assignment because her family is too different. Lucy’s parents are understanding, but refuse to write her an excuse not to do the homework, as she at first demands. Lucy wishes she were in a “typical American family”. Her father makes a bet with her: if she can find three truly “typical” American families, he will help her plant the tulip garden she’s been wanting. Lucy lists three of her friends whom she believes are from typical families, as well as three … Continue reading →

The Sneaky Chef: A Cookbook Review

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I admit, I have wanted a “Sneaky Chef” cookbook for awhile now. Ever since she came out with her first cookbook geared towards kids. I have to say that it was Libby that dubbed the moniker “The Sneaky Mama” and it was long before The Sneaky Chef cookbooks came out. But what can I say? Great minds think alike and while I don’t share any of the same recipes (nor have I published them into a cookbook), I wholeheartedly endorse hiding healthy food into food my family finds palatable. I can hide almost anything, and not even hide it that … Continue reading →

LDS Week in Review—May 12th-17th

Did you have a good week? We did here in LDS. Here’s a recap of all the blogs we did, just in case you missed them. We started the week with “Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration,” a look at the movie now playing at the Legacy Theater in Salt Lake City. We then had a review of the new LDS self-help book “Enjoying the Journey: Steps to Finding Joy Now” by authors Jaime Theler and Deborah Talmadge. Next we continued the Gospel Questions series with “About Food Storage,” which explains the reason behind the Mormons’ curious habit of collecting … Continue reading →