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  The Torturing of Charlotte

  http://bambinaballerina.com/blog/?p=181
  4 days ago in Bambina Ballerina - My life as a Stay at Home Mom-preneur · Authority: 14

  (that handsome guy there, thats my DH)  I don’t know about yall, but going out and having a new born are NOT synonymous. I clearly remember sitting at Babies R Us testing out nursing/rocking chairs thinking it was a vacation..it really was the only place in town I could go to breastfeed in privacy that wasnt my car, so we took a lot of “outings” there. My first year with charlotte was hard because at the time, my husband and I were military members (he as active duty and me as a spouse of an active duty member) and he had to go to Afghanistan when our daughter was 9 months old. I cannot tell you the long hours I spent at night on the computer looking for companionship and an adult to talk to, just to escape between feedings, diapers, baths, and throw up. I experienced my daughter eating “real food”, her first words, and her walking on her own all by myself. One of the ways I was able to pass the time isthat I kept a blog that talked about things we did from taking the trash out, to spit up times, to what clothing she was wearing and kept it online for my husband to log on and follow our every day actions. He said he read it every time he got computer access and it made him feel at home. So I would say our best and most creative outings were simply to take a variety of pictures every day to impress daddy and make him excited about watching his little girl go from 9 months to over a year old from afar. We took pictures daily outside with flowers, on blankets, at the park, in a christmas dress, at the stores, at the mall, hair up, hair down..wherever we went, we documented it. The funniest part is, now she is a picture hog and begs me to take shots of her. I really engrained it in her early on…so I have spent her whole life documenting almost DAILY her actions by photograph. To sum up, my favorite time out with my little girl didn’t really matter when she was a newborn, because every moment was, and continuous to be, very precious. -Trisha  This post is part of the Parent Bloggers Network Blog Blast! asking you to tell us what baby-friendly outings worked for you during your rookie year as a mom? This Blog Blast! is a part of The Rookie Mom’s Handbook review brought to you by Rookie Moms.
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  Rookie Moms - Blog Blast & Final Round-Up

  http://flooraroom.com/2008/05/10/rookie-moms-blog-blast-fina...
  5 days ago in Do it yourself at home · Authority: 2

  Today I was digging for some info on ‘easy gardening’ and came across the following paragraph: N® Baby Carrier Synergy, a childs gardening kit from Smith & Hawken, a baby tshirt from Scout Organic Baby, and of course, a copy of The Rookie Moms Handbook. Two winners will be drawn at random. … The Rookie Moms Handbook: 250 Activities to do with (and without) your baby is a small, easy to read guide chock full of tips on how to survive those first m onths of motherhood…. source: Rookie Moms - Blog Blast & Final Round-Up, The Parent Bloggers Network Because I didn’t want to write a too short journal entry, I checked some search engines on how to make private server and found this: HiPiHi in Public Beta: Interview With Xu Hui, CEO … irtual goods will be housed in a server for the purpose of creating a market place that will be our vision for an ebay for virtual worlds, so these virtual goods w … The first phase is for the current Private Beta users to migrate to the new naming system before we release that naming system to the public…. source: HiPiHi in Public Beta: Interview With Xu Hui, CEO, UgoTrade Hmmm, I have too look further into that for my Other blog. Terminator, Jericho, Startate movie thoughts - that what they needed to do was secure about 2-4 million new viewers to make CBS happy. … Each person needed to go out and convince between one and as many as five of their friends and family to become new, regular viewers, else it was going to crash a nd burn…. source: Terminator, Jericho, Startate movie thoughts, The Media Pundit I decided to blog this result under ‘Easy Gardening’. Let me know what you think of this…
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  The one where Julian was a frat boy

  http://whitneyandryan.blogspot.com/2008/05/one-where-julian-...
  5 days ago in Whitney & Ryan & Julian & Scarlett · Authority: 1

  Today, in celebration of the launch of my book, the Parent Bloggers Network is hosting a blog blast. This means that anyone who wants to should blog on the chosen topic and then send them the link. They post all the links so that everyone can enjoy each other's post on the topic. And today the topic is... activities for a mom's rookie year. Keeping this short, the story is that Heather and I put both of our sons in her car and tried to go to a kid-centric cafe in a neighborhood a little outside our familiarity. We do such things just because we like a good challenge. If you don't get the challenge here, you probably haven't tried to install a rear-facing car seat in someone else's car while your baby climbs on you. It turned out the cafe was closed, so we decided what we needed was a beer. Knowing that any place that serves food with their beer probably has high chairs, we went to a family restaurant/sports bar and plopped the babes in two high chairs and ordered two beers. Then Julian puked. But only on his own shirt. I grabbed him out of the high chair and ran out the door of the pub. I held him over the gutter where he puked again. Classy. Then he was fine. He seemed unbothered by having just emptied his stomach. So, I cleaned him up, put him back in his high chair, and finished my beer. I think this is known amongst the fraternity set as "boot and rally", but I went to a women's college on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, so I am not totally sure. And that, my friends, is just one of many adventures on which I took Julian during his early days. To read more from other parents reflecting on their rookie year, check out the blog blast write up on the Parent Bloggers Network. If you have a blog, share your best, bizarrest, coolest, whatever rookie mom year outing and win some prizes (all weekend long).
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  The Torturing of Charlotte

  http://thekiddieclique.com/main/?p=213
  5 days ago in The Kiddie Clique Mommy Blog · Authority: 7

  (that handsome guy there, thats my DH)  I don’t know about yall, but going out and having a new born are NOT synonymous. I clearly remember sitting at Babies R Us testing out nursing/rocking chairs thinking it was a vacation..it really was the only place in town I could go to breastfeed in privacy that wasnt my car, so we took a lot of “outings” there. My first year with charlotte was hard because at the time, my husband and I were military members (he as active duty and me as a spouse of an active duty member) and he had to go to Afghanistan when our daughter was 9 months old. I cannot tell you the long hours I spent at night on the computer looking for companionship and an adult to talk to, just to escape between feedings, diapers, baths, and throw up. I experienced my daughter eating “real food”, her first words, and her walking on her own all by myself. One of the ways I was able to pass the time isthat I kept a blog that talked about things we did from taking the trash out, to spit up times, to what clothing she was wearing and kept it online for my husband to log on and follow our every day actions. He said he read it every time he got computer access and it made him feel at home. So I would say our best and most creative outings were simply to take a variety of pictures every day to impress daddy and make him excited about watching his little girl go from 9 months to over a year old from afar. We took pictures daily outside with flowers, on blankets, at the park, in a christmas dress, at the stores, at the mall, hair up, hair down..wherever we went, we documented it. The funniest part is, now she is a picture hog and begs me to take shots of her. I really engrained it in her early on…so I have spent her whole life documenting almost DAILY her actions by photograph. To sum up, my favorite time out with my little girl didn’t really matter when she was a newborn, because every moment was, and continuous to be, very precious. -Trisha  This post is part of the Parent Bloggers Network Blog Blast! asking you to tell us what baby-friendly outings worked for you during your rookie year as a mom? This Blog Blast! is a part of The Rookie Mom’s Handbook review brought to you by Rookie Moms.
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  Integrating into a New World - Rookie Style

  http://www.temporarilyme.com/2008/05/09/integrating-into-a-n...
  6 days ago in temporarily me · Authority: 61

  ♥ Thanks to all who have left comments of encouragement and love over the past couple days month. I’ve been really busy with working on completing designs before baby gets here and house stuff that I haven’t had the time I’d like to dedicate to replying to comments. I will be back to replying soon after this bundle has arrived, but in the meantime, please know that i read each and every comment and am very grateful! I just hate that I’m not participating by replying right now. I hope you understand!! ♥ Before Carter was born I had all these fantastic ideas of what we we do while I was on Maternity Leave with him. I think I may have even had the entire year planned - in my head - with days filled to the brim with library visits, shopping, swimming, trips to the bookstore, window shopping downtown, walks by the lake… When Carter arrived I found myself confined to my house for the first couple weeks watching television as Hurricane Katrina had just struck the southern US. TV coverage was rampant and I found myself obsessing over the devastation and grief stricken for the people. The first four months I found myself home more often then out. All these great ideas I had faded into nothing as I watched television in the mornings and cleaned in the afternoons trying to sneak in a nap or two throughout the day. It truly was a sad existence. On a whim I decided that enough was enough and enrolled in a Mom & Baby Yoga class. We were going to get out of the house and meet people. Enough was enough. Now, I’ve never taken yoga before (and I haven’t again since this class actually) so I was intimidated walking in there thinking I was going to face a bunch of svelte mama - so toned, tanned and just four months after giving birth while I felt like a complete frump. Thankfully the moms were just like me. NORMAL. Many of us bonded quite well and spent the rest of our Maternity Leaves doing things together regularly. A number of us enrolled our children into swimming classes, had mommy/baby play dates every week and even took outings to parks and sometimes just mommy dates. In the evening. At a local pub. With no children! It was exactly what I needed and more. I never thought that I would be a part of a mom group of any kind. I just never pictured it as ‘my thing’ but it so was. It kept me sane, in touch and made me realize that there were people I could connect with in the same stage of life as myself. I’m just so disappointed that work and family life has kept us apart since. A few of us email and chat, but I just haven’t had the time to meet up with them again. I’m hoping that a few of us can reconnect the time around, or I can find some new moms in the area to spend time with. ::: This post is part of the Parent Bloggers Network Blog Blast! asking you to tell us what baby-friendly outings worked for you during your rookie year as a mom? This Blog Blast! is a part of The Rookie Mom’s Handbook review brought to you by Rookie Moms. One of two fantastic gift bags filled with more than $250 worth of goodies for moms, including the brand new BABYBJÖRN®Baby Carrier Synergy, a child’s gardening kit from Smith & Hawken, a baby t-shirt from Scout Organic Baby, and of course, a copy of The Rookie Mom’s Handbook can be won if you participate! Copyright © 2008 temporarily me. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@temporarilyme.com so we can take legal action immediately. Plugin by Taragana

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