You've got a lot of junk hanging around the house. But, is it really junk? Before you throw away that chest of drawers, or those random buttons that are piling up, maybe you should try repurposing them. You'll be surprised at just how pretty and chic they can be once you use them as decoration or for some other functional [...]

You may recall me including the Moby Wrap in my list of winter baby essentials. Trust me when I say that we really do use it often. My breastfed baby loves being close to mommy, and it makes getting things done a lot easier when I can "hold" her hands-free. The problem? I needed a second one! I use the [...]

I've been meaning to publish for weeks, but that's taken a backseat because newborn :) Finally though, here you go! It was the coldest day of the year... I'm really tempted to start my birth story this way, because alas, my baby girl was indeed born on the coldest day of the year, during the height of the "polar vortex", [...]

Culture and history are extremely important to my husband and I. Because we are raising our children hundreds of miles from where we grew up, it is really important to us that we share stories of our heritage with them. So, in honor of Black History Month, when Walmart asked me to share how we preserve the beauty of our [...]

In theory, I think we all know that heart health is important. But that theory became all too real for my family a few years ago when I got a call that my mother was in the hospital. I'm still not sure exactly what to call it, but she had a "heart attack-like event," if I'm remembering the doctors' words [...]

OK. So I admit that the headline of the post is a bit...umm...confusing. But this year for Valentine's Day, I wanted to give my daughter something more than yet another stuffed animal or heart-emblazoned t-shirt. So when Walmart challenged me to shop for Valentine's gifts, I in turn challenged myself to find something a little bit unconventional. I have to [...]

One of the things I had to learn about going green is that there are lots of ways to approach it. For those people who are doing it specifically because of personal health, their approach often centers on the ingredients and components of products they buy. But some people take a broader, more global approach, considering the impact of their [...]

I admit that I never get quite as excited for the Winter Olympics as I do for the summer games. But we've been paying attention to the news this year leading up to Sochi — good and bad — and we plan to tune in to the opening ceremonies tomorrow and the events in the weeks to follow. It can [...]

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