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Nearly naked Barbie and other stealth toys | mommy prayers

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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Laquo; Aw, hipster dads. How much do we love them? Prayer for December 26, the real mother’s day. Nearly naked Barbie and other stealth toys. The shopping is winding down here at the Mommy Prayers. Strip mall as we coast into the really fun part of the holiday, the part where we eat and drink and wrap presents in joyful secrecy only to watch them get unceremoniously — nay, even violently — unwrapped a few hours later. Oh what fun. Tis the season when those closest to yo...

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The Cirrrrrrrcle of Liiiiiiiiife. May 31, 2012. Filed in: The Home Front. The Way We Live Now. It’s probably wrong to conflate the launching of my firstborn, who graduates on Sunday from high school, with the closing down of the beloved Brain, Child Magazine. The place where I have both written for and gone to for emotional sustenance and, mostly, a good laugh over this long haul of raising. Read the rest and Comment. What did you do in the class wars, Mommy? October 16, 2011. Filed in: The Home Front.

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Tracy Mayor - Writer, Editor, Journalist | Articles

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Geek Love: Two-techie couples make it work. Computerworld, February 11, 2011. When nerds collide, true love can be twice as nice. Armageddon mama: Parenting toward the Apocalypse. Brain,Child Magazine, Fall 2010. What if we’re raising our kids to succeed in a George Jetson kind of world, but they wind up living more like Fred Flintstone? Asperger’s, Reclassified? Brain,Child Magazine, Spring, 2010. The question ripples painfully through the Aspie community. Treasured Museums North of Boston. As the numbe...

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Tracy Mayor - Electrifying Writer, Editor and Journalist with Two Decades of Editorial Experience

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Merit aid roulette: When a college acceptance ‘yes’ really means ‘no’. The Washington Post, April 13, 2016. Filed in: college admissions. Why allow our son to apply to colleges we can’t afford? Because, like tens of thousands of other high school seniors and their families, we’re playing Merit Aid Roulette — the maddening, often disappointing, but occasionally wildly successful game where families try to get schools to knock $10,000, $20,000 or even more off the annual price of tuition. A love letter to ...

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In praise of the five-minute mommy nap | mommy prayers

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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Laquo; In defense of the corn-maze mom. George Jetson or Fred Flintstone? In praise of the five-minute mommy nap. Tis the season of trying to cram too much living into too little time and space. Some years, we here at the Mommy Prayers. All this, of course, is a cue for the youngest among us to immediately begin fighting every bedtime and, inexplicably, waking up before dawn on some of the darkest mornings of the year. Over at the lovely Standing in the Shadows. Exhaust...

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Treasured Museums North of Boston. As the hub of painterly activity on the North Shore, then and now, Gloucester might first suggest itself as the best place to base operations. But in reality, it’s funky Salem- with its livelier shopping, wider range of accommodations, good restaurants old and new, and closer proximity to Boston- that makes the better home port for a two- or three-day stay. Before and after him, generations of artists came as well for Gloucester’s harbor views, its rocky coastline...

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Hybrid Cars & Cottages: May 2010

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Sunday, May 23, 2010. Since When Do the Products We Wipe Our Bums with Need to Be Segregated by Gender? Being the budget-conscious parents of twins that we are, we decided to try Target brand baby wipes for a change. We have tried the cheaper Walmart brand (papery-feeling and the wipes don't connect and pull the next wipe through the wipe box's slot like they should) but decided to also give the Target brand a try. Blue Box of Baby Wipes. Pink Box of Baby Wipes. Natural aloe and Vitamin E. PS - If you ar...