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How to Have a Healthy Family During a Crazy Germ Season

How to have a healthy family during a crazy germ season: Not to brag, but I was a germophobe long before being a germophobe was all the rage. You could call me a pioneering germophobe. Our family socially distanced before it was cool. We lived like hermits and rage cleaned things normal people View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Life Style, Motherhood Tagged With: germs, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, review, special needs

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How to Organize Your Children’s Medicine Cabinet

Back to school means back to germs. How you organize your children's medicine cabinet matters greatly this time of year. I have received information and materials from JOHNSON & JOHNSON CONSUMER, Inc., McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division, LLC. The opinions stated are my own. This is a View Post

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Why World Stroke Day is Important to Me And You

Why World Stroke Day Is Important To Me And You I am thrilled to work with the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association to help spread awareness of World Stroke Day. Every opinion stated is 100% mine.  Do you remember what you were doing on August 30, View Post

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Do you know the symptoms of high blood pressure? Do you know the risk factors for high blood pressure? Knowing your blood pressure numbers is part of your motherhood self care. Learn how to control, maintain and even lower your blood pressure. Be a healthy mom for your kids. Motherhood requires lots of self care, knowing your numbers is part of it. #ad #checkit #highbloodpressure #healthyheart #selfcare #healthymom #healthyliving #knowyournumbers #motherhood #healthymom #mamainthenow

Moms, Are You at Risk for High Blood Pressure?

Moms, are you at risk for high blood pressure? What are the signs of high blood pressure? (It's a trick question, check the post for life saving answers.)   A sincere “thank you” to the American Heart Association for the opportunity to work with them on spreading awareness of high blood View Post

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The right things to say to special needs parents. Words for comfort for special needs parents. How do you comfort someone with a newly diagnosed child? These words of comfort are great! #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsParents #thingstosay #wordsofcomfort #comfort #specialneedsmom #heartmom #MamaintheNow

Words of Comfort for Special Needs Parents: (What to say and NOT to Say!)

What do you say when your best friend's child is sick? What words of comfort do special needs parents need to hear? What do they NOT want to hear? Words of comfort for special needs parents: I received a text message from my best friend. Her daughter was admitted to the hospital (again) last View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, friends, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, special needs

How do you comfort a grieving moms. Learn the words to say to comfort a grieving parent. Words to comfort special needs parents. Words to comfort a special needs mom. #RightWords #WordstoSay #ComfortingaGrievingMom #SpecialNeedsMom #ComfortingWords #mamainthenow

How to Comfort a Grieving Mother

What do you say when your best friend's child has been diagnosed with cancer? I didn't know how to comfort a grieving mother. But these tips helped... What do you say to a mother, your best friend, who’s 4 year old was just diagnosed with Leukemia? What do you do when you live several states away View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: friends, health, live in the now, special needs

Put together the perfect care package for families in the hospital. Cheer up a medical mom. Show kindness towards families in the hospital with these care package ideas. #CarePackage #SpecialNeeds #CarePackageIdeas #SpecialNeedsFamilies #Kindness #MamaintheNow

Give a Sweet Care Package to Families in the Hospital

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BlissfulMoments #CollectiveBias The power of a thoughtful care package I have a missed call? How did this just happen? I have had my phone on me since Susan sent her last text. Susan is my View Post

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Tips for special needs moms. Tips for newly diagnosed medical moms. How to adjust to your new normal when your child has just been diagnosed. Help for heart moms with heart warriors. Learn how to find your happiness again as a medical mom, special needs moms. Find your happiness after a medical diagnosis. #MedicalMom #HeartMom #HeartWarrior #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsMom #MamaintheNow

5 Important Things Every New Medical Mom Should Do

New Medical Moms, Listen Up! I am the mother of four boys ages 8 and younger. One of our little ones is medically complex and was diagnosed a few days after his text-book-delivery via scheduled c-section. He spent the first two months fighting for his life in the PICU, in a medically induced coma View Post

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Best gifts for kids in the hospital. What do you buy a sick child in the hospital. Gift ideas for sick kids. Toy inspiration and ideas for children in the hospital. #GiftIdeas #GiftsforSickKids #GiftsforKidsintheHospital #GiftsforsickChildren #Toysforkidsinthehospital #CHDAwareness #Heartmom #HeartWarrior #MamaintheNow #ToyList

Best Gifts for Kids in the Hospital

*) The toys marked with a (*) were generously donated by the toy company in support of this toy drive benefitting the children in the CICU at Seattle Children’s Hospital. A heartfelt “THANK YOU” goes out to every donor, as they helped support my dream of brightening the lives of the children in the View Post

Filed Under: Gift Guides, Heart, LEGO, Parenting, Popular, Special Needs, Winter

How to make online support groups your village. Learn how to navigate social media groups for special needs parents and medical moms. The online medical support groups can change your outlook on life - they did for me. #ShareFromHeart #HeartMom #AHA #MedicalMom #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsParent #CHD #SpecialNeedsMom #MedicalMom #WarriorMom #ad

How to Make Online Support Groups Your Village

This is a sponsored post in collaboration with the American Heart Association; all opinions are entirely my own. Before Online Support Groups: I am driving down the street, as our song comes on the radio. It’s Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up.” “I won't give up on us God knows I'm tough, he View Post

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Medical moms and special needs moms find their happiness again. Empowering and encouraging story for moms with sick children, kids with medical conditions and special needs children. Happiness in motherhood IS very possible. #Motherhood #SpecialNeeds #MedicalMom

Happiness is Being a Medical Mom! Really – It IS!

It was a pretty normal Tuesday morning. I was on my way to work, dressed in my standard navy business suit with a few snot stains around my knees and some crusty baby food over my left shoulder. The two oldest kids were in school, while our youngest was at home with our nanny. (At the time, we only View Post

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Four words that will change the way you parent - for better. Positive parenting, intuitive parenting encouragement. Special needs mom, medical mom, heart mom encouragement. Parenting with love and intuition. Mindful parenting mantra.

Four Words That Will Change The Way You Parent

In hindsight, we all have defining moments in our lives that changed, molded and shaped us. Either we were changed against our will, improved after careful planning or shaped through serendipity. Before this experience, I considered myself a pretty good parent to our two young boys. But I View Post

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Handprint gifts for grandparents, teachers and loved ones. Hearts, footprints, thumbprints - over 25 keepsake ideas

25+ Handprint Heart Gifts They Will Love To Receive

Have you run out of gift ideas for family, grandparents, teachers and cardiologists? They will love to receive these handprint heart gifts. He came running up to me, as fast as his little legs could carry him. The look in his eyes said it all. What ever treasure he had in his chubby hands was View Post

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Baby clothes, concert shirts, childhood clothes and wedding dresses can once and for all turn into happy memories. The Patchwork Bear is the perfect gift for mothers, special needs families and grandparents.

The Words That Haunted Me Are Now Sweet Memories

The nurse uttered words no mother should ever hear. Her words haunted me - for a long time. Until The Patchwork Bear came into our life. (I received a memory bear from The Patchwork Bear in return for my honest review. This is 100% my opinion.) I keep rubbing my hands over the brown fuzzy bear View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Reviews, Special Needs

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