From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Breast Milk Needed

by Mum Dee June 30, 2010

Breast feeding is certainly the way that nature intended for us to feed our babies. The medical literature is clear that there are many advantages to breastfeeding including a reduction in respiratory infections and ear infections. Of course the sheer joy of nursing your baby is beyond compare. I would love to have another baby [...]

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What’s Real?

by Mum Dee June 26, 2010

The line between imagination and reality is quite blurry when children are young. Do they really know the difference? Kids will tell you a story of how something happened and it can be so far fetched but they seem to firmly believe that that was the way the event transpired. Even as adults we can [...]

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Real Love!

by Mum Dee June 21, 2010

The video above is a commercial from Thailand. I am not really sure how the advertising part of it works but it is such a beautiful story told in only two minutes. Get ready with the tissues! What a great way to convey a message about breaking traditional responses that only cause harm to the [...]

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I’m Sorry

by Mum Dee June 17, 2010

I remember coming home after a long and tiring day to find a disaster in my kitchen! There were dirty mixing bowls and utensils on every imaginable surface. A film of some unidentified white powder seemed to have turned everything into some muted shade of its original color. Shredded up newspaper had taken over the [...]

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What Are They Saying??

by Mum Dee June 13, 2010

I don’t know about you but I do not understand texting lingo. Oh okay, I get LOL and ROFL since these have been pointed out to me but what does JM2C mean? How about this one, LSHCCOMNAIWEDA: laughing so hard coke came out my nose and I wasn’t even drinking any. The list of abbreviations [...]

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Long Distance Grandma

by Mum Dee June 9, 2010

I have two beautiful grandchildren, aged 8 and 6, that unfortunately have always lived very far away and get farther away all the time. I live in Quebec Canada not too far from Montreal. They were born in Ontario Canada, moved to Minnesota USA and they now live on the other side of the world [...]

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Tantrums Rule?

by Mum Dee June 5, 2010

My son -in-law sent me a news article that I found so shocking. xinhuanet.com It had never occured to me that something like this could happen. This is how the article began. “Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry [...]

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Jessica’s “Daily Affirmation” video

by Mum Dee June 3, 2010

Isn’t this little girl’s attitude great! It is so nice to hear her positive view on everything that is her. She sees good all around herself. I’ll bet she will go far in life and succeed at most everything she puts her hand to.  She knows that she is capable and can do what ever [...]

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