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The Mental Health of Motherhood

May 15, 2013

Last week I was able to attend the Listen To Your Mother show for Raleigh/Durham put on by my good friend Keanne. It was beautiful and hearing all the women’s stories was so special. They were funny, caring, sarcastic and REAL. Motherhood isn’t all newborn snuggles and bake sales. It’s gritty and puts you up [...]

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Mommy and Me

May 1, 2013

We had plans to do family photos since February but 2013 is an asshole and caused us and Laura to have to play phone tag on this for months. Sick kids, surgery (both got sweet belly button scars) and just general crap have kept us apart. So we finally got it on the books. Everything [...]

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Soundtrack Friday!

April 26, 2013

Every Friday morning, I am the first to work. I crank up my computer and blast some tunes. Happy things…cuz it’s Friday! Well this morning, I tossed out the question “Name a song to make you smile today and I will compile into a kickass playlist for the masses.” I got a lot of answers! [...]

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TECHnically Speaking: How to Manage Running Apps on iOS

April 23, 2013

We are gonna file this one with “I thought everyone knew this”. Ya see, back in the day on iPhones, you could only run 1 app at a time. You couldn’t stream Pandora and look at Facebook. Every time you opened an app, it restarted. Annoying. Then along came iOS 4 with its wonderful multitasking. [...]

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Something to Make You Smile

April 19, 2013

I have about 4 posts in drafts for this week. Was going to post about the slight redesign here but wanted to give my artist proper praise when the social media world wasn’t consumed with such tragedy. So I waited. Then I was going to post a simple post talking about some gadgets I love [...]

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TECHnically Speaking: How To Delete Multiple iPhone Photos

April 5, 2013

This post is going to explain the one concept that inspired this series. I have answered this question a stupid number of times to have people bow at my feet. It was always followed by “you should blog this!” This post is going to be short and sweet because this is super easy, just not [...]

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Good Finds for Good Friday

March 29, 2013

I have a hodge podge of things from the week that don’t warrant their own post but together, give you a glimpse into how scatter brained I really am. Some are funny. Some are informative and some are BOTH. Enjoy!   source: imgur Years ago my OB actually opened my eyes to the fact that [...]

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The Anti-Bucket List

March 12, 2013

I feel like I HAVE to post today. To say something thought provoking about turning the big 3-0. But honestly, I got nothing. Life is pretty hectic at the moment with 2 growing boys, busy work, constant germs annihilating our house. I’m not gloomy about my birthday, I am just tired. But I am happy. [...]

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TECHnically Speaking: My Top 5 Apps

March 8, 2013

This week is TECHnically Speaking I figured I would go simple and just do my top 5 used apps on my phone. First thing we need to note is how I use my phone. I consume and manage media. I don’t play games. I don’t use it to help me cook. I use it to [...]

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TECHnically Speaking: Infinite Email Addresses

February 27, 2013

For this installment of TECHnically Speaking, I am going to let you in on a little testing secret I learned years back. At work, I used to be in charge of testing our accounts system. I would have to test creating, modifying and logging in our product day after day. One dilemma in testing our [...]

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