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Moms Explore Work-Life Balance (Hint: There Is No Such Thing)

I feel lucky and overwhelmed every day. Here are tips & wisdom from women in the trenches, showing up with integrity, strength, and grace to work and mom life.

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5 Essentials you Won’t Find on a Baby Registry

Products will never replace the skills required to successfully care for your children and yourself. These five essential skills will take you far. 

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12 Books You Won't Be Able to Read With Your Kid Without Crying

While these make great bedtime stories, you may want to cram a tissue up your sleeve, grandma style for those guaranteed sniffles.

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Got Leftover Easter Ham? Try This Recipe.

Skip the ham sandwiches and make this mouthwatering, warm and crusty take on the classic diner Monte Cristo sandwich.

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Celebrating My Family's Chinese-American New Year

Chinese New Year is a time of great celebration. It’s also a time when American Chinese families face the challenge of holding onto traditions as time passes from one generation to the next.

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Why Sugar Coating the History of Slavery Is a Bad Idea If We Want to Empower Our Kids

If our kids don’t know what happened in the past, how will they ever work towards a better future and ensure that we never go back to those dark times?

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9 Women of Color Who Made History

Reflecting on women of color who paved the way for young women like me is vital to appreciating where we once were as a nation, where we are now, and where we are heading.

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The Call of the "By the Time I'm 40" List

We all have one. The list. A list of dreams and goals that we hope to have accomplished by the time we are 40.

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The Best 2022 Resolution: More of Less

January 1st, 2022: My resolution is to incorporate less instead of eliminating more. I’ll be on high alert for things that delight me and invite me to be at the moment.

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I Met My Best Friend in My 30's

When my son was one month into his NICU resort stay, I met the woman who would become my best friend. I met her on the worst day of my life.

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Why Everyone Needs More Koselig in Their Holidays (and Year-Round)

"Koselig" usually translates as “cozy,” but in Norwegian it's more than just an adjective. It's a feeling, a state of mind and being.

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No Christmas Spirit: A Holiday Story

Fin stared deeply into his brother’s eyes. "… And you are going to ruin Christmas… And you are going to ruin everything!"

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Holiday STEAMcation: Activities for Kids During the Holiday Break

Holiday break is a great time for both you and the kids to get some much needed R&R, but without schools open, life can quickly become boring without its usual stimulation. That’s where the joy...

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Just One More Time: How One Kid’s Dreams Came True at the Local Skate Park

There is a skate park in our town, built sometime in the decade before we moved here. It’s steep concrete bowls are confined to a space that could park a half dozen cars. It’s because of this park ...

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The Determination and Strength of the Tiniest Fighter: A Heartfelt Message to NICU Parents

My tiny little fighter, beating the odds from the moment you entered the world. A world you shouldn’t have been in yet, a world you fought so hard to stay in, a world that you weren’t ready for, bu...

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Prioritizing Friendships as a Parent and How to Maintain Them

The keyword: effort. The kind of friendships that mean something don’t often just happen when you are also juggling life with kids.

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The Art of Essentialism: How to Do Better by Doing Less

Embrace the idea of "less but better" and accept trade-offs as an inherent part of life. We can't do it all.

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Why We’re Happy to Be a Christmas Tree-Free Home

As a kid, being Jewish at Christmastime meant feeling the pain of being different. But those experiences shaped my values.

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Grateful Is as Grateful Does

To be grateful is to live a full life. It is to know worry and accept worry.

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The Unexpected Blessing of a Less-Than-Perfect Grandma

It wasn’t until I had kids that I began to wonder what it might have been like to hug a grandparent who returned affection with shining, loving eyes.

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How I Found Myself Through My Son's Autism

When my son turned six, I found myself in a doctor’s office hearing words like autism, sensory processing disorder, and sensory integration disorder.

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10 Ways to Seamlessly Blend Hanukkah with Christmas for Your Interfaith Kids

If you've got a menorah and a Christmas tree jockeying for prime placement in the window, this little listicle is for you.

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Why Focus Words Are Better Than Resolutions

Resolutions narrow our focus instead of broadening it to encompass an overall fulfilling life. Focus words, on the other hand, do not.

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The No-Stress Holiday Tradition That Saved Our Christmas

You do it for work parties all the time, so why not family? It would turn gifts into a kind of game and who doesn’t like games? Save your Christmas and bank account with the gift that really keeps ...