How to survive the summer with your kids It is coming. You notice it first as an uncomfortable niggle behind your right ear, but it quickly moves to your neck in the form of a tennis ball of tension. Spreading down into your arms, you feel as though you are covered by one of those lead blankets they drape you …
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If you are an Apple enthusiast like myself, you get excited about the little things: Hot new apps, new cases and holders, and the possibility of cutting a hole in your kitchen cabinet in order to mount you iPad and use it as a wireless sound system for your entire house. Because I love my iPad so very much, I …
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I remember the moment so vividly. I answered my front door to find my husband’s friend standing on the steps. In his hand was a bright, shiny, slightly newer iTouch, and he was giving it to me. Up until that moment, it never occurred to me that a small, thinnish piece of technology would drastically improve my life, but it …
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You know that sinking feeling you get when you are all dressed up for some event and realize that you are either dressed in the wrong gear or worse, you are horrendously late for the festivities? You’ve made an effort to extract the yogurt from your hair, and even put on some makeup so you don’t look like one of …
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You don’t need a license to have a baby, which is really too bad in many respects. You’ve weighed the pros and cons of which baby necessities to buy and discovered that the one thing you can’t really do without is diapers. Unfortunately for you, you have no idea how to change a diaper. This is how you change a …
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