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 | How To Make Your Own Baby Food | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 60 | | Those little containers of baby food sure are expensive once you start totaling up how much you use in a day. Now you are probably wondering how you could possibly save money on baby food (besides t... | |
| 8 Cheap Activities To Do With Your Kids | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 52 | | These inexpensive ideas are sure to get your kids creative juices flowing! The kids will love them because it gives them something productive to do and mom will love them because they're easy and ch... | |
| Family Meetings: 3 Behaviors That Don't Work | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 50 | | There are 3 behaviors that can upset any Family Meeting. As a kid, I had all three. In fact, my grandmother called me a "Butinski". I've never seen it spelled but it sounds like: But-in-ski. I was al... | |
| Baby Advice – Separating Truth from Fiction | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 69 | | New mothers get a ton of advice. Total strangers will walk up to you and give you their opinions on how to get rid of that cradle cap. Your mother-in-law will look at you with disapproving eyes and... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 9 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 56 | | 12-8-2000 Congratulations are in order! Today, my 15-day waiting period required after court ended, so it was time to go all over Almaty to get new documents. We had to drive back out to Karakastek,... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 8 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 54 | | 12-6-2000 Well, the good news is that Alison and I are both feeling much better. A few days of antibiotics has her just about back to her happy self. She loves going outside, but it snowed again the... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 7 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 55 | | 12-3-2000 I've been silent for a few days. That's because my little one hasn't! She's had a cold and cough since I took her from the orphanage, and the cough medicine, vitamins and Tylenol I've been ... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 6 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 62 | | 11-29-2000 Well, we woke up to snow today, but it didn't last very long. I met a really great woman, Amy Von Blon, from Houston, Texas. Her husband Michael came in for court, and then went back to Ho... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 5 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 59 | | 11-27-2000 I just got Alison to sleep. This is the toughest time of the day… well, last night and tonight anyway. She fights going to sleep… climbs all over the bed (no crib here), and sobs mournfull... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 4 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 56 | | 11-23-2000 11:00 AM Yesterday was the best day yet with my little girl. The caretakers tell me she is a bit spoiled and can get cranky when she's not happy (as I've noticed!). I think I discovered t... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 3 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 57 | | 11-21-2000 Wow, this has been an amazing few days! I left Los Angeles Saturday afternoon at 3:20 PM PST, and flew 10 hours to Frankfurt Germany. I had a two and a half-hour layover followed by anothe... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 2 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 45 | | 11-13-2000 Once signed up with my agency, I received the information on their Russian program and instructions for assembling my dossier compiled into a red binder. At the time (July 1999), the only... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 12 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 52 | | 12/22/00 It's taken me almost 48 hours to write this my adoption journal entry, as now that we're home, I seem to have no time to get on the computer at all. Alison is doing very well, though I think... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 11 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 47 | | 12-17-2000 It's Sunday afternoon, December 17, and Alison is napping. So while I have a few moments on the computer, I thought I'd continue detailing the journey home, while the details are still som... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 10 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 69 | | 12-12-2000 It's Tuesday, December 12, about 12:20 PM and I'm still in Kazakhstan! I should have been in Moscow by now, but Alison's visa didn't come through in time. We had our exit interview at the... | |
| Alison's Journey Home: An Adoption Story - Part 1 | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 58 | | Five years ago today, I was in Kazakhstan, in the middle of the most important event of my life. I was becoming a mother! I met my daughter just a couple of weeks earlier, though I had dreamed of h... | |
| To Circumcise Or Not To Circumcise | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 62 | | If you're about to have a baby, no doubt the subject of circumcision for a boy baby has entered your mind. Circumcision is a personal choice – but, of course, it's one that you're making for another ... | |
| Strattera Linked to Suicidal Thoughts in Children | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 54 | | Adding to the "Black Box" warning that Strattera can cause liver problems comes a new warning that Strattera can cause suicidal thoughts in children taking the ADHD drug. The FDA is now making the c... | |
| Adult ADHD Drug Use Skyrockets | | | November 8, 2009, 12:00 am | visits: 71 | | The Strattera television depicted a distracted man forgetting his car keys, arriving late to appointments and failing to complete work assignments on time. In the forefront of many adults' minds was,... | |
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