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How did moms do it before social media?
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by CharShaff.
From the moment I was pregnant, Google was my favorite tool to learn about being a mom. Have a question about anything to do with motherhood? You can usually find some sort of blog or website where the answer is either written in an article or it is posted as a question by a mom [...]
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Is Baby Invited?
Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by CharShaff.
Do I bring the baby to lunch with me? This is a quandary I have just recently started to have and not sure how to go about it as Jake gets older. Ever since I had Jake seven months ago, my efforts to “do lunch” have dwindled by the the mere fact that I now use the [...]
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Why do you work?
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by CharShaff.
Every woman who chooses to work after having a child does it for a reason. Finances…Personal Satisfaction…
Why do you work at home with a child? Would you do it differently if you could? Would you go back to having a boss? Would you throw your career ambitions out the window and be a stay-at-home mom [...]
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Cry Baby
Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by CharShaff.
Do you shed a tear more often now that you are a mom? I don’t mean because you are frazzled beyond belief, but from being more sensitive?
I have always been pretty tender about things…I cry during the National Anthem, choke up reading greeting cards and bawl my eyes out during “Biggest Loser”. But now that I am [...]
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Guilty as Charged
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by CharShaff.
All moms feel guilt when they choose to work and raise a child. But my latest guilty moment came at 2:45 a.m. this past Tuesday. Jake had just gone in for his 2-month doctor’s visit and had his shots. I was warned he may get achey or have a fever from the vaccines. The doctor [...]