August 15th, 2015
Source: Facebook/WOTE
Having a baby is a crazy time in anyone’s life. Whether it’s your first child and you don’t know what you’ve gotten yourself into or your third and it’s all been-there-done-that, it’s surely going to be a crazy, hectic time. And yet, many of us manage to fit in some wild stuff in between labor pains. There are the usual things like not getting any medication to help with the pain (you put me in that much pain and I’d be breaking into the prison pharmacy if I had to) or eating a hearty meal only to throw it up shortly thereafter.
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Tags: childbirth, labor, music, pregnancy, WOTE
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August 10th, 2015
Source: YouTube
By far, the most attractive quality in a woman, as far as I’m concerned, is confidence. Add competence to that and there’s no way simple physical beauty can compete.
With that in mind, I’ve always felt that moms — women who have their act together and are raising their kids with love and care — are more far attractive than those “barely legal teens” you hear so much about on the internet. And, based on a new video from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Gregory Brothers, it sounds like I’m not alone in that assessment.
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Tags: beauty, Gregory Brothers, Humor, humour, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, moms, schmoyoho, sex, sexy, videos, youtube
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June 29th, 2015
It doesn’t happen every time, but it happens often enough. There I am, six feet tall, and built like a tank, with a full beard and one lobotomy-covering American-flag headband away from a recurring role on Duck Dynasty, standing in the grocery store aisle crying like a baby. It’s not because mommy won’t buy me Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs but because I won’t buy them for my daughter. Or, more accurately, because I can’t buy them for my daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: autoimmune, celiac, celiac disease, gluten, gluten free, health issues
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June 6th, 2015
I have a friend who owns a vacation home near Lake Tahoe and, being pretty much the most generous person in the world, he lets us stay there when he’s not using it. We took advantage of the long Memorial Day weekend and went up for a quick break. We weren’t expecting great weather so we planned on just hanging out, enjoying the views, and relaxing quietly. We drove up on Saturday and after unloading the car and putting groceries away, the kids started in on a game of Monopoly. That kept them busy for a while — long enough for me to learn that my laptop’s hard drive had died. It also kept them away from their tablets long enough that they didn’t think to ask for the WiFi password until bedtime. With a promise that they would get the password in the morning, they quickly turned in for the night.
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Tags: games, monopoly, treasure hunt, vacation, wifi
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June 1st, 2015
Dear Jim Bob and Michelle:
I would like to offer my sincere sympathies at this time. I am sure your daughters and the other girls involved in your recent scandal had no need or desire to have this brought up again and I know you must be feeling pain and shame as well.
Every parent must decide for themselves what they believe is the best way to raise their children. Considerations include public school versus private school versus homeschooling, attending church services versus eschewing religion, and, on an even more basic level, are kids better off as only children or do they do better with siblings.
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Tags: blogging for lgbt families, blogging for lgbt families day, Duggars, FRC, Josh Duggar, lgbt, LGBTQ, quiverfull
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June 1st, 2015
Guest Post by Sara Sinasohn, age 10
LGBT? What’s wrong with it? It’s just a new type of community. It is the same thing as regular marriage, but just with two of the same gender. I don’t get it. As I said, what’s wrong with that?
It’s sad to think that people think of a couple as wrong just because they are of the same gender as each other. It’s just what we call love. It’s the same as saying it’s not right to get married if one person has darker skin than the other. If only people could understand that no matter what a couple looks like, just as long as they love each other it’s okay.
This post is part of Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day 2015.
Tags: blogging for lgbt families, blogging for lgbt families day, families, lgbt, LGBTQ
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February 6th, 2015
With the sudden resurgence of a disease thought eradicated in the US, vaccines have come, once again, to the forefront of the news in general and the parenting world in particular. Specifically, the measles vaccine is one of the (if not *the*) most successful vaccines in the history of, well, vaccines. And yet, there have been 102 cases in 14 states in January of 2015 alone. For reference, in the eleven years from 2002 to 2012, nine years saw fewer than 100 cases.
Recently, parenting website The Stir published an article outlining the “22 Things Never to Say to Moms Who Don’t Vaccinate.” Needless to say, I take exception with a number of them.
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Tags: autism, health, measles, mmr, vaccines
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June 3rd, 2014
Okay, I admit it. Other than for a couple of critical issues, I am just not that into politics. When an election rolls around, I try to pick people who will run things for me the way I want them to, and that’s about it. So when I realized that today was the primary election here in California — on the way home from taking the kids bowling — I was seriously considering blowing off voting.
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Tags: ballots, citizenship, election, elections, politics, vote, voting
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June 2nd, 2014
If you’re a parent, you’ve undoubtedly heard plenty of stories of kids coming out to their parents that they are gay or lesbian. Some of them have been amusing, others endearing, and some, unfortunately, have been heartbreaking. Parents have responded with humour, with understanding, and with fear and loathing. Some parents have gone so far as to disown their children and kick them out of the house. That won’t happen in my house, but I’ll tell you that there also won’t be any “coming out” either.
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Tags: blogging for lgbt families, blogging for lgbt families day, boyfriends, dating, gay, girlfriends, glbt, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, puberty
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June 1st, 2014
My 5-port USB Charger
Amongst the five of us, we have three mobile phones, two tablets, a Kindle, five iPods, a couple of cordless Bluetooth headsets, and miscellaneous other bits of electronics that are charged via a USB connection. Sure, most of them came with a charger and, of course, they can be plugged into a computer to charge them, but in practice, we usually end up playing musical chargers with the two we leave plugged in in the hall. Until now, that is.
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Tags: android, cell phone, cellphone, charger, electronics, galaxy, ios, ipad, iphone, kindle, micro usb, microUSB, mobile phone, power, samsung, USB
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