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If You Are Able, Adopt-a-Family or Senior This Holiday Season

Family Balance Sheet

So when our oldest daughter was born 7 years ago, we were over-joyed.and maybe a bit overwhelmed. Right after our daughter was born, I read an article in the newspaper that tugged at my heart and my postpartum hormones. That first year, the family was a single mother whose infant son was born just a few days before our daughter.

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Lazy Saturday Reads: Murder in Paradise, The Poisoned Rose and More

For the Mommas

advertisement in a newspaper brings a disparate group of people to a tropical paradise. His wife, eight-year-old daughter, and fifteen-year-old son remain separate, not cohering into a family. Murder In Paradise by Greg Wilson. A remote island in the South Pacific plays host to a dozen strangers. One of them is a murderer.An

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Why You Won’t Find Store Match Ups Anymore

Saving Cents With Sense

I’ve been featured on the news with my tips, written for magazines and other online sites and even have a column in a local newspaper. My son had many health concerns when he was younger and we realized that he needed speech therapy. My son had many health concerns when he was younger and we realized that he needed speech therapy.

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Sunday Reads 8/28: Ode to a Fish Sandwich, Burnout and More eBooks

For the Mommas

It’s November in Pecan Bayou, Texas and while the town is getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday a deadly fire breaks out at the newspaper office. Sak K’uk, daughter of the first woman Mayan ruler, is more fit to accede than her artistic brother and she chafes at his lack-luster leadership. Burnout by Teresa Trent.

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