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Shining Light Prenatal Education founder Deena Blumenfeld

Becoming Mama starts before Birth  Shining Light Prenatal Education celebrates their first year. ~~~by Sarah Lolley~~~ Deena Blumenfeld’s Inspiration from Sarah Lolley on Vimeo. It seems like yesterday I was waddling into Deena Blumenfeld’s prenatal yoga class to calm my hormonal nerves because, well, drinking was not an option. Her Thursday night class was the [...]

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Adventures in the Dark: The Great Sandy Survival

The Shortest Distance Can be the Longest Journey ~~~~~~~By Georgette Pascale – Founder and CEO of Pascale Communications~~ For those of us who live in the New York tri-state area, the Superstorm known as Sandy presented some very unique challenges.  I was luckier than many because my family is safe and my home is pretty [...]

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JetWetters: Mini-Van Madness

Roadtrip UTI ~ ~~~~~~by Adeline Kovaè~~~~~~ JetWetters, yeah, I’ve read it.  Some of the stories are humorously horrifying, but those aren’t the stories for the lower class folks like my family.  Let’s face it, when it costs a family of five over $2500 round-trip to fly on a 90 minute ride to PGH from ATL compared [...]

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JetWetters: Washington D.C. or Bust

The Perfect Storm: A Trip to D.C. with My Children and a Grumpy Walrus ~~~~~~ by Sarah Lolley~~~~~~ Sometimes my logic amazes me. When my husband received the opportunity to attend a recent industry meeting in Washington, D.C., I insisted that we must all go…two toddlers, a baby, and our Confederate Jew grandpa. The idea [...]

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The Village: Election Issue

Early Education and Child Care: Obama vs. Romney Before my mother became a single mom, I was fortunate to have experienced a stay-at-home mom before the d-word (divorce) sent my mom back to school. Then we moved to be closer to an entire village of relatives that became my extended parents. My granny’s house was [...]

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Purposefully Accidental

~~~~ by Adeline Kovaè~~~~~ Zombie Day for Mummy~~~~~ So who decided Halloween was a kids’ holiday anyway?  It had to be some single man. This one day of the year I don’t have to shower. My clothes don’t have to match let alone be clean without a wrinkle.  I can leave the Fabreeze and perfume [...]

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Mommy’s Mute Button, the Best Invention – Ever

 ~ by Georgette Pascale – Founder and CEO of Pascale Communications In my opinion, the most important invention known to mankind today is not the computer, the microwave or the electric car.  It’s the mute button.  It’s simple in design, easy to operate and it saves lives.  (OK, so maybe it doesn’t really save lives [...]

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Purposefully Accidental

~ by Adeline Kovaè Surprise! Surprise!! Surprise!!! Who doesn’t love a great surprise? What can be better than a surprise party, an unexpected gift, a spontaneous engagement…. or a surprise pregnancy?! Many women know at the moment of conception that they are pregnant while others may know after that first missed period. That was not me. [...]

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Good-Bye Bar Crawl! Hello Neighbors!

Finding our new home….. The first time I really left good ol’ Kentucky (for good, not just a paternal visit) I was enraptured, transfixed, and spellbound by both the cityscape and the carnival of people in my new neighborhood. Pittsburgh’s South Side was a sanctuary of collegiate bars and stoop-sitting fogies.  I instantly fell in [...]

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Purposefully Accidental ~ A Mom & Her Daisies

~ by Adeline Kovaè Is there such a thing as accidentally on purpose? Was it really an accident? I have no idea. My motherhood story begins at the young age of 12 with Endometriosis and reports from many doctors that I would probably never have kids. At 12, who really cares though! Fast forward to November [...]

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