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Ororo Heated Vest Review: Stay Warm While at Your Kid’s Winter Activities
Don’t suffer while watching your kids participate in winter sports. Click here to learn how to stay warm in cold weather with an Ororo heated vest.
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5 Unexpected Lessons in Self-Care Learned from Chopping Wood
While chopping wood, I unintentionally learned some lessons in self-care. Click here to find out what they were.
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4 Easy Ways to Find Balance in Life
Balance in life is more than getting everything on your to-do list done. After a near-death experience, these four things helped me find balance.
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Holiday Self-Care Gift Guide for Moms
Looking for a self-care treat and gifts for all your kids that will create time to focus on you? This Mom’s Self-Care Gift Guide is for you.
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Book Review—365 Days of Happiness
If you’re open to new ideas, Jacqueline Pirtle’s 365 Days of Happiness may be a fun way to become a happier person every day of the year.
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Product Review—House of Matriarch Perfume
Self-care doesn't have to take long. It can be as simple as putting on some perfume. Click here for a link to some great perfume and a coupon code.
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Mother’s Day Guilt
For years, Mother’s Day brought on a sense of guilt for me. I knew the inevitable question of “What do you want to do today?” would be asked. What did I want to do? If I was completely honest, some years I just wanted to say, “To not have to do anything. To not have to be a mom for the day.” But that wasn’t right, was it? Mother’s Day was a day to celebrate being a mom and spending time with the family—the whole reason for being a mom. A good mom wouldn’t want time for herself, would she? A good mom wouldn’t feel the need to not be…
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Why Self-Care Is So Important
We all want to be the best parents we can be. It’s all too easy, though, to get lost along the way, running from one activity to another, cooking dinner, washing laundry, cleaning the house, working, and spending time with your family. We can easily forget who we are as a person and what we need in this daily rush. I know I fell into this after having kids. I became a mother, and only a mother, for more years than I’d like to admit, and nothing else. Worst of all, forgetting who I was started affecting how I parented. I found myself yelling more and having less patience. I…
An exhausted mom's journey to finding balance
