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TOMS Shoes and The Fashionable Housewife wants you to go barefoot with us on April 8th!!! The impact a pair of shoes has on a child can be life-changing. Help TOMS raise awareness by going barefoot on the way to the water cooler, walking to the mailbox, in an afternoon meeting or on your lunch…
Jasmere.com is trying something new and different (as well as positively amazing, if you ask me!) for today’s deal starting at 12pm EST. What are they doing? Here’s what they had to share: Instead of selling our typical high-end jeans, brownies or handbags, jasmere will be “selling” a $90 donation of critical supplies for Haiti…
Sleeping Beauties: Newborns in Dreamland (Sellers Publishing; April 2010; Hardcover; $29.95) Photographs by Tracy Raver and Kelly Ryden If you can get from cover to cover of this book and not end up wanting a baby, then you are missing the “baby gene”. This is an absolute tear jerker for any mom-to-be too! Sleeping Beauties…
DOES HE HAVE LONG ONES OR SHORT ONES? If You Want to Stay Married, All You Need to Know Is If He Has Long Ones or Short Ones Ladies, unfortunately the news is in. The human male is much more like the common Prairie Vole than we previously believed. No, men are not dogs, they…
T-shirts are probably one of the most basic and most popular items in the world today. Almost every person has at least a few tees in their closet and they are our go-to items when we are looking for extreme comfort. So if you’re going to wear a t-shirt, you might as well wear a…
Courtesy of www.inhabitots.com It turns out attachment parenting isn’t scandalous at all, though some still consider it to be. In my opinion, it’s the healthiest form of parenting for a child and it’s how I am raising my second son, Daniel. But, I have still received criticism from friends and even some family members for…
This is a special sale alert for our own pregnant editor Sarah-Jean, but also for the rest of you expecting mothers out there! Paige Premium Maternity Denim is on Gilt right now (make sure to look under the “Childrens” section, because it’s listed there)! Despite all of my denim experience (and experience specifically with Paige…
Sample Sale sites are amazing ways to access health, beauty, fashion and lifestyle items that normally would be out of our (okay, my) reach, and they’re priced to make these luxuries an easy and fun way to add some more glam and style to your lifestyle. Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing with…
“Prince Branches Out” PRINCE FETCHES A BRANCH IN HIS MOUTH TO PRESENT TO ME AS NESTING MATERIAL FOR MY ‘HOUSE’ Even though it’s now late February and Spring hasn’t quite yet set in, Prince is getting a hankering to court again and to hunker down with the girl of his dreams. The days are growing…
MUCH ADO ABOUT A MUTE SWAN: Part 9 “So How Do You Write an Effective Personal Ad for a Geriatric Mute Swan?” Wanted: Well-aged gentleman seeks lonely hearted-lady with similar interests and tastes in life. You must love fresh flowers which I will present to you at regular intervals– especially in Spring when the lily…
Threadless.com recently teamed up with TOMS Shoes to launch their Threadless Loves TOMS One Day Without Shoes challenge. On April 8th TOMS Shoes is having their annual One Day Without Shoes. The event is a tangible way to make a statement for the millions of children who go shoeless everyday. To spread the word about…
And really, fiber is important for everyone, pregnant or not. It’s especially important during pregnancy when a high fiber diet is recommended to prevent constipation, which is an extremely common problem during pregnancy. One of the many joys of bearing children… This means you should have a goal to get 25 to 35 grams of…
Image Courtesy of eHow.com When Exactly Did We Start to Hate Our Bodies…? I can precisely pin-point the moment when I started to hate my body. I was twelve years old and my dad was a professor at UNLV, Las Vegas, Nevada. I hadn’t thought much about my appearance until the summer I would turn…
Image From the ‘Dove Real Beauty’ Campaign “When I looked in the mirror, it was like cutting my body up into different pieces and evaluating the pieces, as if it was some sort of thing … I would really focus on different parts and then rip those parts apart, being hypercritical. It was a violent…
So I was telling you about meeting What Not To Wear’s Stacy and Clinton at the Discovery Communications’ 25th anniversary gala. Despite being overwhelmed with eager admirers and reporters, they took time to speak directly to FH readers. We had a fabulous conversation about the stresses women face and how someone can empower herself by…
MUCH ADO ABOUT A MUTE SWAN: Part 4 “The Coldest Day of December” The interesting thing about mute swans is that they mate for life. They reach maturity around 2 years of age and that’s when they start scouring the pond for available males and females. The pond turns into a veritable bar scene on…