I have been greatly disturbed lately with the number of stars that my girls idolize who are getting wild. Now I am faced with the decision of not letting my child watch Hannah Montana. I am getting very worried about who will be next to be a huge let down.
I hope sometime soon a young lady will come along that all our little girls can look up to without them doing something silly.

MOMMY BLOGS I WOULD THRILL TO READ. I've listed my picks; but I'm asking Who Would YOU Pick? The Virgin Mary? Madonna? Sister Theresa? Michelle Obama? Erma Bombeck? Britney? Cindy Sheehan? Your Mom? Hillary? A Fictional Character? Who? There are some "Daddy Blogs" I'd like to read too. I limited myself (so not to take all the GOOD ones) but, Daddy blogs qualify too.

Earlier today,my baby son tossed a rented movie my way and urged me to watch it with his dad, then on his way he went, to do something other than watch a movie with mom & dad. (We'll cover unfair competition in a later post.)

The main character, Juno, played by Ellen Page, was a bright teen who was faced with.... My hubby laughed and said, "Watching Juno is like meeting you years ago. Do you recognize yourself?"

Well, noooo, I obviously didn't. Me? Juno?

I made him tell me why - wondering how he could make the backward leap. We are nearing retirement age.

It's the contradictions," he said. "Your mind was always ahead

So, im thinking of becoming an egg donor and i need some perspective. Has anyone done it before? Is it painful? What do you think about it?

Please comment and let me know.

Today I proved my worth as a mother.

I let fun come first.

I let spontaneity rule.

I let my kids go outside and play in the rain.


Sometimes you just have to let them be kids. I remember going out and splashing in puddles and playing outside.

It seems like kids these days, or my kids anyway, don't get to go out and play like they used to.

I'm an Army Brat and was raised on Army Posts. There were always packs of kids of all ages roaming around looking for "the new kids."

We played in the rain, we played in the snow, we ran around outside until the street lights came on.

So today when Josh came home from school and wanted to run around in the puddles, I let him.

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I have really tried to rid the house of bisphenol A laden plastics. Here are a few things we've purchased that we really like:

1. Born Free Bottles - they are a honey colored plastic maybe more prone to scratching than their counterparts with BPA but we have found them to be great! We haven't had problems with leaking and they have a vent (a little like Dr. Browns bottles) to help with gassiness. We used the Dr. Brown's sterilizer and the Born Free Sterilizer - both work - but the Born Free Sterilizer lets you put the bottles fully upside down without scratching. We also use the munchkin sterilizer bags when we are travelling but they just fit one bottle. You can purchase Born Free products at Whole Foods or directly from them on their website.

www.newbornfree.com

2. Kleen Kanteet - Kleen Kanteen makes stainless steel sippy cups. We love them - they seem to keep the water cooler than plastic (I don't know why....) and our little guy has no problem drinking from them.

We put our 15-month old son in the nursery at church Sunday. When we picked him up the nursery workers were gushing about how sweet he was and how well he had done being with them for the first time.

"He just came right in and made himself at home! Does he go to daycare?"

I nodded, and I knew why they had asked what really amounted to a rhetorical question. They assumed he was a daycare baby because he adjusted so readily to a strange classroom.

I know that my baby is very "easy" socially. He likes people and his general disposition is laid back, friendly, and happy. But I also know that he popped out that way. This is his natural personality. So daycare, despite the church nursery volunteer's assumption, is not entirely responsible for the fact that they didn't have a screaming, sobbing woddler (baby-toddler) on their hands.

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I'm reposting my latest Wordpress blog here, as I am grateful to Shine and its members for alerting me about BPA in baby bottles:

Is it true that Avent will be introducing BPA-free bottles?

We use many Avent products, from baby bottles to nipples and sippy cups, to sterilizer, bottle heater, and even breast pump kit. It is the most popular brand here in Islamabad, found in every pharmacy and shops selling baby products. Although we stopped heating the baby's milk, we still expose these bottles to heat when they're sterilized. So not only was I disturbed to find out that Avent is one of the brands that contain BPA, but I was also disappointed that their website maintained that studies about the harmful effects of BPA on humans are inconclusive. Did they really think concerned parents will take a chance with their children's health?

One blogger, (The Blog According to Buzz), called them "one of the worst offenders when it comes to BPA." Zrecs referred to Philips Avent as the