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The Secret Life of the American Teenager
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You know how all the covers of the national women?s? magazines promise they have the secret ingredients to provide us a happier, healthier, skinnier, richer, more organized, better-sexed life? Is it just me or are you also growing weary of reading the same things over and over and over again? All those articles that just by their very existence seem to scream that women everywhere are unhappy, unhealthy, fat, poor, disorganized and under-sexed? It all seems so out-of-touch, or written for a young twenty demographic.
The clothes off our (kids') backs?
At our house, we're really big fans of consignment shops.
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Boy, do people get all worked up over the stupidest things.
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It's funny! It's realistic! It's poisonous! The latest lead-tainted toy from the Far East is OKK Trading's Mini-Televisor toy TV.
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We're starting to think that maybe you should stay away from dollar store toys all together.
Infant Mylicon recalled
Oh how we relied on Infant Mylicon for our ultra-gassy baby.
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Seven years ago on Christmas Eve morn, Ella and I were busy packing for a visit to her parents' home when she excitedly said, "I think I'm late!" We had only started trying, so I was skeptical that we would conceive so quickly.
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Remembering Mom.


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