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The Best Ways to Connect With Grandparents Across the Miles

Grandparents are the fun central of a kid's childhood! Use these ideas to connect with grandparents when you can't see them regularly! The Best Ways to Connect With Grandparents Across the Miles Grandparents, the unsung heroes of any childhood. Who's better at building LEGO than a grandparent? View Post

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Printable sweet and sarcastic mother-in-law cards. Send a sweet greeting to your mother-in-law. Tell your MIL how she makes you feel. Mother's Day cards for mother-in-law. Greeting cards for MIL. #MIL #Mothersday #Motherinlaw #greetingcards #printablecards #MILGreetings #MILSentiments #MotherinlawSentiments #MamaintheNow

Send a Thank-You Note to Your Mother-in-Law, Free Printable Cards

The women who often are overlooked on Mother's Day are the ones we should blame or thank for everything we hold dear. Celebrate your mother-in-law. Send a Thank-You Note to Your Mother-in-Law This Mother’s Day (or any day of the year), take a few minutes to acknowledge and give thanks to the View Post

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How to keep long distance friendships fun and alive. Keep friendships after a relocation. Great tips for expats. How to stay in touch after a long move. Keep long distance relationships alive. #LongDistanceRelationships #LongDistanceFriendships #StayinginTouch #Motherhood #LongDistanceMove #Expat #Relocation #ChristmasCards #HolidayCards #Motherhood #Parenting #Penpals #MamaintheNow

How to Keep Long Distance Friendships Fun and Alive

This post is sponsored by Kodak Moments and SheKnows Media. Keeping long distance friendships fun and alive:  “I miss my friends and Uncle Scott” were his muffled words as he cried big tears into the Star Wars pillow. His back shook with every sob and he refused to look at me. My heart shattered View Post

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12 ways to live your best life. Tips to embrace life, mindfulness and how to live life to its fullest. #CancerSucks #Mindfulness #Motherhood #StrongWomen #LiveYourBestLife #MamaintheNow #CarpeDiem

12 Ways to Live Your Best Life

Live your best life - TODAY! Don’t wait for Monday! New healthy habits, diets and exercise routines can start any day of the week.  Don’t wait to spend time with your friends! There are a million reason to postpone seeing your friends, but there are a million and one reasons why View Post

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How to protect your finances during a divorce. Financial advice and real-life tips from a someone who has walked the walk. Practical financial tips for surviving a divorce without ruining your financial life. #Finances #Financial #Divorce #Marriage #FinancialTips #Motherhood #StrongWomen #mamainthenow #personalfinances #FinancialAdvice

How to Protect Your Finances During a Divorce

Protect your finances during a divorce:   (Disclaimer: I am happily married to the father of our four beautiful boys. The situation I describe below is from a divorce I went through years before I met my husband.) My divorce was filed in Florida in 2004. None of the information in this post is View Post

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Stressed moms and overwhelmed moms are never good in a family. Calm mom, help her through motherhood with this sweet and simple gesture. It doesn't take much to have a happy wife. #HappyWife #Motherhood #MarriageWin #ParentingWin #MamaintheNow

How to Melt a Stressed Mom’s Heart With One Sweet Gesture

Stressed Mom With Cold Feet Have you ever wanted something with every fiber of your being, but when it became a reality you started to doubt your initial decision? It happened to me. I got cold feet one evening, but then my husband did something he had never done before. I went to bed with all 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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Considering having a large family? There are a few things no one ever tells you about having a lot of kids, but leave it to this mother of four to share the truth! Motherhood truth, large family secrets, happy family.

22 Things You NEED to Know About Raising a Large Family

We have what people call a “large family”. When I met my husband, I certainly didn’t think “this man can give me a large family, he’s good breeding stock. Let me snatch him up right away!” I am positive he didn’t see the potential in me for carrying four pony-sized babies, but fate/ destiny/ View Post

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Being a daughter-in-law is not an easy task, but an expert shares her tips on how to be a perfect DIL. Marriage is hard and takes work. Winning your MIL over is no different!

How To Be The Perfect Daughter-In-Law

Over a decade ago, my boyfriend called his parents with “THE news”. The call went a little something like this: Dreamy Boyfriend: “Mom, I have news for you... we are getting married!” Dreamy Boyfriend’s mom: ”WHY?” And just like that, our relationship as mother-in-law (“MIL”) and View Post

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Find the perfect gifts for your mother-in-law - for birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day or anniversaries. Regardless of your relationship, we have the right gift for your family. You will be the daughter-in-law of the year!

The Perfect Gifts For Your Awesome Mother-in-Law

Let me guess, your spouse asked you to buy gifts for your mother-in-law, and you are at a loss. Look no further! We have the perfect gifts for your MIL! If you have been with your spouse or partner for more than a week, any conversation related to buying Christmas/ birthday/ anniversary presents View Post

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This mother of four tells a true tale of the man cold vs. the mom cold. Women WILL feel encouraged after reading this. Trust me, all men are the same when they are sick.

Man Cold vs. Mom Cold

As soon as the temperatures drop, noses across the land start to drip, voices get rough and hoarse and one by one, our good men fall victim to the man cold! I have received information and materials from Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc., McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division. The opinions View Post

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A letter to a woman in a toxic relationship is an empowering read. End domestic violence and abuse. Share this with a friend who needs encouragement to get out of an unhealthy situation.

A Letter to the Woman Stuck in a Toxic Relationship

Dear Woman in a Toxic Relationship, I see you! Not in a creepy, stalker way, no you have enough of that going on in your everyday life. But I SEE you - the woman behind the sad eyes, the unkempt hair, the mismatched clothes and the body language that screams “please let me blend in. I don’t View Post

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Please stop making Facebook awkward. The mommy wars are in full force on social media, and it needs to stop!

Please Stop Making Facebook Awkward!

I rarely write like this, but when something irks me enough, you can rest assured that I will get a few things off my chest. Moms, for the love of all things good in this world, please stop making Facebook AWKWARD! You know the feeling of watching an incredibly uncomfortable Facebook post going from View Post

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The Night I Saved The Girls With Steel Blue Eyes. An empowering and encouraging story of how one young woman broke free from an abusive relationship. Domestic violence victims, present and past will connect with this girl's brave journey. It took me 20 years to share my story!

The Night I Saved The Girl With Steel Blue Eyes

The Night I Saved The Girl With Steel Blue Eyes: I looked deeply into her vaguely familiar steel blue eyes. There was a warmth about them, but also something so broken, sad and lacking sparkle. We stood there and stared each other down for a long time. That’s when I heard it - his words. His View Post

Filed Under: Motherhood, Relationships Tagged With: family, Happiness, health, live in the now, Motherhood

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