From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Pregnancy Support in North Carolina

February 15, 2008

Of all the normal, natural events in the average woman’s life, few things hold the same potential to be abolutely terrifying as having a baby, especially when the baby was unexpected, when the pregnancy was unintended. While the woman’s body was designed for this miracle of giving birth, few women will ever be as close to death as they [...]

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Have You Seen the Ice Cream Man?

February 11, 2008

I don’t know how many times I heard that jangling, out-of-tune music box music emanating from the truck driving down the next street over. Living in multiple neighborhoods, with only a few years in each, didn’t help learn the ice-cream truck’s route. Plus with memories of the bad man in Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, I was always rather leery [...]

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Stainless Steel Baskets

February 7, 2008

So, today’s browsing opened up a world of baskets. If you want wood and wicker baskets, talk to the folks at Longaberger. If you’re looking for plastic baskets, you’ll want to contact Rubbermaid. But, if you’re in the market for stainless steel baskets, AnySizeBasket.com is a site you should check out. Their baskets are industrial [...]

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Chinese Pregnancy Calendar

February 6, 2008

I’ve just been browsing MyPregnancyGuide.com and discovered a fascinating tool. It’s a chart for determining your unborn baby’s gender–something they call the Chinese Pregnancy Calendar. Amazing! All you do is find the mother’s age, in the column headers, find the month of conception, down the row headers, and the intersection of that column and that row specifies [...]

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Ice Cream is Tradition

February 4, 2008

Ice cream shows up in all kinds of family history. For my dad and his brother, ice cream was every night’s bedtime snack. My grandmother still tells the story of a young cousin who is reported to have snuck back downstairs, after hours, because she heard “ice cream noises” (As it turns out, she had good ears–her [...]

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