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Please green the vaccines. I’m asking as an undecided, expecting mother who already has a child with autism.
Statistics show that I’m 10 times more likely to have another child on the spectrum. Only it’s not that simple. It’s thought environmental factors could trigger autism in an already genetically predisposed baby. My baby.
This leads me to [...]

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I hear voices. They speak to me from the strangest of places … like Craig’s sock. Just this morning it asked me where it was going today.
When I didn’t respond, it became squeaky and insistent. First, who answers a dingy-bottomed cotton foot tube? And second, isn’t it the plight of a sock to not [...]

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Feeling the pinch in your purse? Don’t let that interfere with immersing yourself in the holiday spirit.
I know it’s hard, but remember this: The kids won’t remember the gifts a decade from now. However, they’ll remember family celebrations and traditions.
Really. Think about your warmest memories. Are they of specific presents – or of the surrounding [...]

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I am a caffeine addict. My love has led me to devote many a Twitter, text message and verbal declaration to it.
Seriously.
I’ve stood on a mountaintop and sworn my unwavering I-would-die-for-you loyalty to Mr. Coffee – and pledged to run away with him if he’d have me.
Fortunately, the mountain was a pile of laundry and [...]