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This Beautiful End of Summer with My Little Girl…

September 1, 2010
This Beautiful End of Summer with My Little Girl…

By Genny Heika As I write this, my daughter is playing Monopoly with a friend, and my son is in his room driving a remote control car around. I just finished doing some writing for C2BU and was wrapping up a few things on my computer when I looked at my calendar and saw...
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The “Joy” of Being Preggers

June 23, 2010

By Lisa Page I looked at GOTG’s recent calendar of events and realized just how quickly, and by how much, my life has changed since becoming pregnant. I usually attend Grape Escape, for example, but cutting wine out of my diet makes paying the price tag associated with the event less appealing, so I...
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Found: Best Sacramento Parks for the Kiddos

May 10, 2010

By Julie Jones I love to walk with my kids, and my kids and I really enjoy a good park. I think parks are a great way for my kids to burn energy in a contained area where I can keep an eye on all of them. My kids love the swings and they love...
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How to Make the Kiddo’s Ask for Carrots, Not Chips

May 6, 2010
How to Make the Kiddo’s Ask for Carrots, Not Chips

By Rachel Michelin One of my biggest struggles as a working mom of two is how to make sure my kids eat healthy.  This hits close to home for me. For the past eight years, I have worked on a grant to encourage families to make good food choices by eating the recommended number...
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Making Mom-friends

April 5, 2010
Making Mom-friends

By Molly DeFrank How do you go about making mom-friends? When you’re a kid, making friends is easy. In fact, it’s practically unavoidable. You spend every single day stuck in a classroom with the same 30 kids. One day in 2nd grade you trade your granola bar for Sally’s fruit roll up. Bam, best...
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Discussion: A Useful (and Fun) Christmas Present

January 21, 2010
Discussion: A Useful (and Fun) Christmas Present

By Rachel Michelin My family has become what my five year old calls a Wii Family.  Yes, we got a Wii for Christmas.  Really it was my gift.  My husband bought Wii and Wii Fit for my Christmas present.  I had tried it out at a women’s conference I was at and really liked...
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What I’ve Learned from My 5 Year Old

January 15, 2010
What I’ve Learned from My 5 Year Old

By Rachel Michelin My daughter just got cast in her first theater production.  She is in the Macron cast of “The Great Cookie War.”  It is a production put on by the El Dorado Musical Theater (http://www.edmt.info/) and I must say their productions are really good. We took our girls to see their last...
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The Importance of a “Mental Health Day”

December 2, 2009
The Importance of a “Mental Health Day”

By Rachel Michelin With the holiday season upon us, now more than ever, it is essential that we keep our wits about us.  With 2 kids, a husband and a full-time career, I find the easiest way to stay sane is to spend quality time (however infrequently) with my best girlfriends. And what better...
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