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This is Miss Angela. Everyone say “hi”! I met Angela four and a half years ago when she was a freshmen in college and I was a new mom.  I was looking for someone to watch Abbi, then 9 months old, for a few hours each week while I ran errands or went to appointments [...]

{sniffle. sniffle. sniffle.} Abbi is crying in the back seat. Me:  Abbi, what’s wrong? Her:  I {sniffle} can’t {sniffle} be {sniffle} a explorer! Me:  What? What are you talking about? Her:  I can’t be a explorer! Me:  Why can’t you be AN explorer? Her:  I can’t. Oh, this is going to be a productive conversation. [...]

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I love Easter.  Love it! I would dare say that it is probably my most favorite holiday.  I’m not sure why exactly but I think it has something to do with Spring and new life and new beginnings.  I just love it.  And the candy is awesome!  Peeps!  Cadbury Eggs!  Hollow chocolate bunnies!!! I love [...]

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Not a day goes by that my girls are not dressed up as princesses, ballerinas, or as fairies.  They love to dress up.  And I love that it is something that they enjoy doing together! Fairy-Gram is an amazing online store that I came across one day on Mom Made That.  I’m pretty sure that [...]

I wasn’t sure exactly how the girls would react seeing their favorite characters in person as we got ready to go to the Playhouse Disney Live show.  It’s one thing to see them on the tv in the living room as cartoons.  It’s quite another to see them “live” and in person, dancing and singing [...]

As our kids grow up, we as parents love to play the game of “she/he got this from me and that from her/his father.”  It’s almost like a badge we award ourself for passing on admirable traits to the next generation.  The flipside of this game is admitting when we passed on our less-than-desirable traits [...]

It’s one of the best moments as a parent — hearing your child’s first word!  Especially if it is some version of “mom”!  We spend so much of their first year or so trying to get them to say words, words that we can understand, words that make us proud.  Then we spend the next [...]