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August 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
Shot@Life Blogust

For those of you who think blogging is just about people sitting in front of a computer, writing posts, tweeting out random thoughts and waiting to get famous, you're all wrong.  Blogging is about so much more than that.  One year ago, I ran a fundraising campaign right here on The Culture Mom to raise money to provide leading-edge prosthetic limbs to women & mothers who became amputees as a result of the January 12, 2010 earthquake.  A year later, I raised many more thousands of dollars for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through an … [Read more...]

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Going from One to Two with the Million Moms Challenge

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ABC Million Moms campaign

    Recently, as part of the Million Moms Challenge, I was asked about the best or worse part of my pregnancy.  To be honest, I thought that I had nothing interesting to say about my two pregnancies.  They were both healthy and quite normal, but the more I thought about it, and once I started writing, I realized that there was so much more than just heartburn and my 35 pound weight gain with each child to write about.  It was an emotional roller coaster, particularly the second time around when I got unexpectedly pregnant when my … [Read more...]

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