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  • Metal Minivan Momma

    Metal Minivan Momma

    I have always loved cars.  Not just any car though, I always needed a cool ride. My first car was a hot pink Camaro if that tells you anything.   In my lifetime I have owned six vehicles, each one very different yet each fit the mood and life I was living at the time.  In [...]

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    | May 8, 2012 | 2 Comments
  • Babysitting Essentials

    Babysitting Essentials

    When I was 12 I started watching the neighbor’s two little boys for them to run to the store or out to dinner.  I earned $3 an hour and thought I was rich.  After getting a taste of how nice it was to have my own spending money, I quickly tried to find more work.  [...]

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    | May 3, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • I Had It First!

    I Had It First!

    Mine!  I had it first!  It’s not fair!  She took it!  I have heard these phrases so much in the past few months, accompanied by hours upon hours of crying, that I am about ready to pull all of my newly grayed hairs out.  My youngest is about to turn two and her almost five [...]

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    | April 30, 2012 | 3 Comments
  • GREEN is the New Black!

    GREEN is the New Black!

    Smart Moms Get “Green” with Seasonal Children’s Consignment Sales Green is the new black among moms who shop and sell at children’s consignment sales. Good for moms’ wallets and the environment, this trendy seasonal sale phenomenon helped moms recycle more than 9 million children’s clothing items and shoes last year according to recent estimations by Consignment [...]

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    | April 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
  • Hold My Light:  I Want To Be Your Friend, But I Have To Be Your Daddy

    Hold My Light: I Want To Be Your Friend, But I Have To Be Your Daddy

    Even the least judgmental among us can flare in the presence of some mouthy, disrespectful brat running around the restaurant, or climbing the pew in church, or (insert scenario here).  Frequently, a moment’s observation cements the judgment, because it reveals that Mommy or Daddy is going to excessive and inappropriate lengths to be his/her child’s [...]

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    | April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Single Parenting: Developing Suburban Survival Skills

| April 10, 2012 | 0 Comments
Single Parenting: Developing Suburban Survival Skills

In the past few years since I became a single mom, I’ve developed tremendous empathy for women whose husbands are in the military, because they often have to live as if they are single, too. But there’s one big difference– they probably understood the lifestyle they were going to have when they got married. I [...]

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Hold My Light

| April 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
Hold My Light

“Daddy, can I help?” I doubt a whole minute goes by in the world without a small child padding up to his/her father and asking that.  Thing is, truly little ones want to help before they can really do much.  Or, it’s a one-person job to start with.  Or both. However, the child’s enthusiasm for [...]

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Pressure to Be a Superwoman

| March 22, 2012 | 4 Comments
Pressure to Be a Superwoman

While watching one of my favorite television programs, “House”, the other night, the character Dr. Lisa Cuddy was anticipating an inspection from the state on her pending adoption.  She had a newborn, a stack of paperwork on her couch from her job as a hospital administrator, a dirty diaper hidden in her brief case, and [...]

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Loving My Crown: Why There Are Rules at this Grandmomma’s House

| March 20, 2012 | 3 Comments
Loving My Crown: Why There Are Rules at this Grandmomma’s House

I’ll go ahead and get the obvious reasons out of the way.  First of all, I am a retired elementary music teacher, accustomed to instructing, managing, and engaging every child in the school in one way or another.  And second of all, those who know me best will quickly say that I could be the [...]

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Tootsie Rolls and Panty Liners – A Review of “Motherhood the Musical”

| March 12, 2012 | 0 Comments
Tootsie Rolls and Panty Liners – A Review of “Motherhood the Musical”

Amy is a few weeks away from her due date when her good friends and neighbors, Barb, Tasha, and Brooke, decide to throw her a baby shower.  This is when comical genius begins! From one of the first songs called “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy”, Barb will have you never looking at a Tootsie Roll the same [...]

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I Was Wrong, and Here’s What I Did About It When I Realized It

| March 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
I Was Wrong, and Here’s What I Did About It When I Realized It

I coached Nathan’s basketball team, the Mustangs, this winter.  I’ve been an enthusiastic dad with a kid on the team for years, but until this past December, I’d never been a coach. Well, really I assistant-coached it.  Partially because we really wanted Nathan on this particular head coach’s team, and partially because I knew he’d [...]

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Are You There God? It’s Me, a Mom. – Dealing with Puberty

| February 27, 2012 | 0 Comments
Are You There God?  It’s Me, a Mom. – Dealing with Puberty

I remember my mom, the summer before I turned twelve, finally letting me shave my legs.  She also gave me something I will never forget, the book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume. My mom told me to read it and to let her know if I had any questions.  I [...]

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Loving My Crown: Passing Down Our Passions

| February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment
Loving My Crown: Passing Down Our Passions

  My father-in-law drowned in a boating accident in the Tennessee River in late October 1997.  He and his good friend were enjoying an afternoon of fishing when something went terribly wrong.  Their bodies were recovered early the next morning.  He was 73, and his five grandchildren ranged in age at the time from 17 [...]

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Anonymous Dads: You Don’t Always Get to Pick When You Parent

| February 20, 2012 | 4 Comments
Anonymous Dads: You Don’t Always Get to Pick When You Parent

Editors Note: TNV Moms is happy to announce a new series of articles and writers to our website known as “Anonymous Dads.”  TNV Moms has invited Dads across the valley to join us, either openly or anonymously, and write about their perspectives on parenting.   Our first article is from a great local blogger, writer, [...]

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Passionate Parenting

| February 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
Passionate Parenting

  My grandmother used to say “the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.”  So when I sat down to write an article about “passion” (the topic for this month’s Rocket City Bloggers Carnival) I of course thought about my husband.  I thought about the reasons I love [...]

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