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Less Than One Week of Work Left – Then What?

by Carolyn August 17, 2010
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ShareWhen I made the decision to quit my job at the end of the summer, I hadn’t gotten pregnant yet and I had a lot of worries related to what I should do next. Should I get a job? Would it even be ethical to start a new job, knowing beforehand that I could be [...]

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The 7 Link Challenge!

by Carolyn July 15, 2010
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ShareToday’s post on ProBlogger was a challenge to create a link list to 7 particular kinds of blog posts (hence the name, The 7 Link Challenge!) It sounded like fun, so here is my contribution to the pool! 1) Your first post – Welcome To The World, New Baby Blog This one was really hard [...]

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A Child Friendly Explanation of Autism

by Carolyn May 23, 2010

Share I work with kids with autism, and describing what I do on a day to day basis can be tough to explain to people. I usually end up listing the diagnostic criteria and just saying that we work on correcting those deficits and excesses. The hardest thing, though, is trying to explain to other [...]

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Shout Out To Great Servers!

by Carolyn May 20, 2010

ShareThe Famous Dave’s near our house has a great Wednesday Wing night (25 cents each!!) in their bar area, so we go every week. The first few times we went it was just because it was a great deal, and therefore a fun and economical new date night. The service was actually kind of crummy [...]

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Sometimes There’s Just No Substitute!

by Carolyn May 11, 2010

ShareI’ve never had truly terrible acne but I’ve for sure had difficult times with my skin, and for the last five or six years I’ve been a dedicated Proactiv user (it really does work as well as the infomercials say!) However, with the smack-down I’ve put on our budget, I’ve been trying to find a [...]

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Let’s Get Nostalgic!

by Carolyn April 25, 2010

ShareI was walking to my car last week with my keys in my hand, preparing to push the button to unlock the doors as I approached, when I started thinking about what life was like before car keys had buttons on them! Remember when you had to actually put the key in the door to [...]

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Why It Was Vitally Important That I Cut All My Hair Off

by Carolyn April 7, 2010

ShareSometimes in life you can change the direction you’re going in without too much of a fight, and sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can muster some upward mobility again. I think I’m mostly a “hit rock bottom first, and then really turn things around!” kind of girl. That phrase always brings [...]

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I Don’t Understand Weddings

by Carolyn March 31, 2010

ShareI don’t understand weddings. Well okay, I get the concept of marriage, and therefore the pomp and circumstance that goes along with it. I’ve done that, I get that. What I don’t get are all of the “traditional” components of a wedding that don’t seem to have a purpose other than costing a lot of [...]

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Medical Professionals, Give Me Some Credit!

by Carolyn March 30, 2010
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ShareBefore I say anything else, I just want to say that I have the utmost respect for medical professionals. I have a lot of family who work in the field, I’ve worked with some amazing people, and I still plan to go back to nursing school eventually (I’ll be that old lady in your class [...]

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Progressive – Can You Do Dental, Also?

by Carolyn March 21, 2010

ShareI went to the dentist today, and (as always!) they found more issues with my teeth that really need to be fixed (and before people start saying that my dentist is just trying to rip me off, I’d like to say that the dentist I had a few months ago had pointed out the same [...]

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