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Medication and the First Trimester

At the beginning of the week I cautioned against going off medication when you get pregnant.  Now I want to write a follow-up, because it actually is important to know any potential dangers with medicine and the first trimester. As a rule I’ve avoided reading lists of dangers, side effects, and rare pregnancy and birth problems.  They’ll just cause me unnecessary stress, and since pregnant women usually see their doctors at least once a month, I trust mine to keep me informed about anything that will actually/is actually affecting me.  But it is important to know that the first trimester … Continue reading →

Baby Animals at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

We interrupt your regularly scheduled details of the Animal Kingdom to bring a special post about the park: a highlight of all of the baby animals born there in the recent months. I could talk about the special tours and shopping found there (and I will eventually), but a choice between that and adorable baby animals? Please, I’m going with the cute. The most recent addition to the Animal Kingdom came in June, in the form of a baby okapi. Okapis look like they’re some kind of deer, or strange deer-like horses that are related to zebras, because they have … Continue reading →

Make It a Memorable Father’s Day

Forget about the striped tie, fishing pole, and Chia Head; rather, give dad something he can cherish for years to come this Father’s Day—-a scrapbook celebrating his life. When it comes to organizing a memory book honoring dad, the possibilities are endless. If this is your first stab at theme scrapbooking, consider going the traditional route with a basic chronological design. With this technique you simply document your father’s life from birth to present day. Your layouts should include childhood photos taken at birthday parties, Christmas, Easter, and other holidays. Also, look for pictures that capture major milestones in his … Continue reading →

Preparing for Sharing Time

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Since I am in the primary presidency, part of my responsibilities include preparing sharing time every third week. I usually find that Saturday night, I am looking over the sharing time, and throwing things together. But, seeing as we have a small group, it usually always works out fine. However, I’ve been thinking lately about ways that I can prepare more for these little lessons I give each week. After all, I truly believe that we are, “teaching children, not lessons” and it is more about being prepared in spirit rather than having the perfect prop or gimmick for the … Continue reading →

Tim McGraw Giving Away Houses

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It is Memorial Day weekend and what better way to remember the military than to give some of them homes? Tim McGraw, along with Chase and Operation Homefront are going to give homes to 25 veterans as a promotion for McGraw’s Brothers of the Sun summer tour. The United Service Organization (USO) and Chase are presenting the tour, which will also receive contributions from the Academy of Country Music’s ACM Lifting Lives program and the Premier Group on behalf of the North Carolina Furniture Manufacturers. These mortgage-free homes will go to veterans who have been wounded in battle (wounded warriors) … Continue reading →

Special Needs Blog Week in Review – April 22 – 28, 2012

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Once a week, the Special Needs Blog Week in Review gives you a quick review of all of the blogs that appeared in the past seven days. This is a great way to catch up on the blogs that you wanted to read, but didn’t have time for. What did you miss this week? The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on April 23, 2012. This week, I’d like to point out an episode of NPR’s “Morning Edition” that is titled: “Children With Autism Are Often Targeted By Bullies”. A survey by the Interactive Autism Network found that almost two-thirds … Continue reading →

How a Father Discovered Teachers Were Bullying His Son

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A father of a child who has autism started getting notes sent home from school with his child. The notes said that his son had violent outbursts at school. The son couldn’t tell his father what was going on, so the father put a recording device into his son’s pocket before sending him to school. It turned out he was being bullied by his teachers. Stuart Chaifetz is a single parent. His son, Akian, is ten years old and has autism. Akian, like many kids who have an autism spectrum disorder, has difficulties with verbal communication. Therefore, Akian couldn’t simply … Continue reading →

Insurance Blog Week in Review – Week of April 15-21, 2012

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Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on everything that hit the blog in the past seven days. There can be anywhere between 12 and 14 blogs that will appear. What did you miss this week? My Quest to Find Affordable Health Insurance is Finished Finally! I have found a health insurance policy that I can actually afford! I review the steps from uninsured, (when I lost my job and my health insurance in 2009), to insured in 2012. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on April 16, 2012. This … Continue reading →

How I Met Your Father

In my last post, I described how one genealogy blogger’s account of how her grandfather and grandmother met made me think a lot about the importance of preserving family stories for future generations. In the spirit of recording family stories for posterity, I think that I will share my own story about how I met my husband. My boys are too young to understand the story, but there will come a day when they will wonder how their family came to be and this is what I will tell them. It all started when I was a student in law … Continue reading →

Special Needs Blog Week in Review – March 25 – 31, 2012

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Once a week, the Special Needs Blog Week in Review gives you a quick description of everything that hit the blog in a given week. This is a great way to figure out if you missed anything that you wanted to read. It can also be helpful for those of you who want to scan through it, to find blogs that are specifically relevant to your family’s situation. Oklahoma Judge Rules School Vouchers are Unconstitutional School vouchers seem to be very controversial right now. In Oklahoma, there is a law called the Lindsey Nichole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities … Continue reading →