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The 10 People Who Should Always be on Your Holiday Card List! Plus tips on how to save time and money on your holiday cards!

The 10 People Who Should be on Your Holiday Card List

Thank you, Walmart for sponsoring this post. All the stated opinions and experiences are mine. We make more of an effort during the Holidays to stay in touch, reach out and reconnect with friends and family. This is one of the reasons why I love this time of year. Every text message, phone View Post

Filed Under: Life Style, Reviews, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, family, review, writing

You Are The Day…

You are the day with the sunshine and the rain. You are the night with the stars and the moon and the shadows. Everybody wants you, everybody needs you. No one can exist without you. The rich man wants you. The poor man needs you. But no one can take you. You are a baby’s crying and a View Post

Filed Under: Our Life Tagged With: Danish, writing

Top 10 Articles of 2014 by Mama in the Now

Top 10 Articles of 2014

As I look back on 2014, I am truly in awe and humbled by the year we just had. The love and support from friends (that’s you) and family (a group of people who overlap with the “friends” category) is so incredibly heartwarming and encouraging. I work hard to bring you possibly interesting, View Post

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: blogging, live in the now, writing

Have Your Most Successful Year EVER! Skip the resolutions! Do THIS instead!

Have your MOST Successful Year – EVER!

We are headed into the final days of 2014. The heat is on for us to complete the resolutions we so determinedly put in place in December 2013 - or wait… you forgot what they were? Don’t worry - so did millions others who steadfast made plans to lose weight, change their ways, save more, eat less, be View Post

Filed Under: Motherhood Tagged With: blogging, family, live in the now, work life balance, writing

Prevent Blogger Burnout. Get your groove back - quickly!

Prevent Blogger Burnout!

Life happens! - and thank God for that, otherwise bloggers would have nothing to write about! But sometimes life’s happenings get in the way of our writing, and once you get out of the groove it can be really hard to get back on track and get your blogging groove back! Personally, I need to stick View Post

Filed Under: Motherhood Tagged With: blogging, work life balance, writing

The Danes are the happiest people because of one little word!

Translating a Word that was Never Meant to be Translated

Each language has a few words that cannot easily be translated, and the Danish language is no exception. Danish is in general not as colorful and full of nuances as English. I often find when translating from English to Danish that some of the emotions are “lost in translation” simply because Danish View Post

Filed Under: Hygge Tagged With: Danish, family, writing

I am a Danish American mom of four boys parenting with heart, humor and hygge. Join me on this crazy ride. You will laugh more than you’d expect!

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