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5 Easy Wine Tasting Tips for Beginners: Find a wine you like and get tasting!
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5 Easy Wine Tasting Tips for Beginners: Find a wine you like and get tasting!

Are you the kind of mom who’s always been interested in trying wine but have no idea where to start? No idea what to buy or how to taste it? It’s not as intimidating as you might think. First, take this quiz to find out which kinds of wines you might like. Now go grab a bottle…

Sassy Plum’s Weekly Wine-Down: Apothic Wines
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Sassy Plum’s Weekly Wine-Down: Apothic Wines

  Well hello there. Ready for wine? I thought so. Let’s do this. It’s Thursday, and you know what that means… Yup! It’s Wine -Down time. This week’s challenge features four delicious variations by Apothic Wine.

Why We Shouldn’t Praise Our Children
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Why We Shouldn’t Praise Our Children

The church I attend has a Mom2Mom class and we’ve studied numerous books by the highly proclaimed childhood behavior expert, Dr. Kevin Leman. It was during one of these studies that I heard, for the first time, that we should NOT praise our children with the typical “yay, good job!” Instead, we were told to encourage them.

Wine Time! Introducing Sassy Meg’s Weekly Wine-Down
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Wine Time! Introducing Sassy Meg’s Weekly Wine-Down

Welcome to Sassy Meg’s Weekly Wine-Down Challenge, where I drink wine FOR YOU! Yes, I love you so much that I’ll drink lots of wine just for you. In fact, I’m such a good friend that I am willing to sabotage my weight loss “progress” (insert eyeroll) and sacrifice my weekly snacks to taste wine on your…

Milk Not Coming In? Try Putting Everyone Out and Other Breastfeeding Tips
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Milk Not Coming In? Try Putting Everyone Out and Other Breastfeeding Tips

I discovered that once I was able to sit with no shirt on and not worry about how I looked, or how he latched, or how to have small talk with someone who came over to “help,” but there was really nothing for them to do… it just kind of happened. First a drop came out, and then another drop and then bam: the floodgates opened. And we got back into our groove and the milk flowed. I went from zero ounces to probably 50 ounces a day – all because I got a break in visitors.

Advice For A Healthy Marriage: “Always Date Your Spouse”
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Advice For A Healthy Marriage: “Always Date Your Spouse”

A piece of advice an old married couple once gave me: always date your spouse. I never knew what that meant before marriage, but it didn’t take me long to find out. I

Balancing Motherhood and Self-Care
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Balancing Motherhood and Self-Care

Did you know that mommy ducks build their nests with feathers they pluck from their chests? Neither did I, but it makes sense. A mother duck is the same as every other kind of mom out there: she endures the often painful sting of sacrifice so that she might create a safe place for her children. It…

Fed Up! My Breakup Text To Target
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Fed Up! My Breakup Text To Target

*Texting* Mr. Target, I hate to put you on blast in a text. But we kind of need to talk. I’ve been thinking, and you know how I am when I get to thinking. It’s time for us to see someone else.  It’s not me this time, it’s you, my dear. Why do you do…

Kids Won’t Play With Toys?  10 Ways To Keep Them Busy
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Kids Won’t Play With Toys? 10 Ways To Keep Them Busy

Do your kids need to stay busy? If your your house is anything like mine, you have 10 toy-boxes, filled to the brim, and your kids won’t play with anything in there! Who knows what treasures are even buried toward the bottom, we haven’t seen them in years! My kids seem much more interested in…

Cocktails? Forget It! Restaurant Dining With Kids
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Cocktails? Forget It! Restaurant Dining With Kids

  Restaurant date for a party of 5! Hold tight, because this isn’t for the faint at heart.  Let me set the tone for you. My 4 year-old is hangry (hungry + angry) and pouting because she “is starving” and cannot wait another second for her favorite spaghetti. My 2 year-old is climbing out of…

That Time My Husband Bought Me Lingerie
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That Time My Husband Bought Me Lingerie

First off let me say that motherhood is the biggest honor and gift. I remember when I was expecting my first son, a good friend described my impending birth experience as an opportunity to assist God in a miracle. And boy was that statement accurate. I’m going to tell you how growing and delivering babies made…

Cool Mom?  Apparently I’m Not One Anymore
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Cool Mom? Apparently I’m Not One Anymore

I thought I was a cool mom, but apparently that changed. I recently signed up to have a parent-teacher conference with my 14-year old son.  Because the conference took place immediately before school started, I suggested what I thought was a bright idea.  As I parked and turned the car off, I casually said “OK,…