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Blogging for dollars

by Angela 08.19.2009

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about the controversy over “mommy bloggers” accepting payment or goods from companies.* If the coverage hasn’t gotten to you, try the Newsweek piece, or the NPR piece. Off and on, I’ve wondered if we should host some advertising on this blog. After all, we put energy into the [...]

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Retail Therapy

by Angela 05.18.2009

I’ve learned something about myself in the past couple of weeks — I’m not immune to retail therapy. Since Dorea got diagnosed with a semi-rare pregnancy complication, we’ve been bleeding money. Some of the spending is legit. She’s been having acupuncture appointments and we’ve spent money on medications of various sorts. But looking at my [...]

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Small Living

by Angela 02.09.2009

We live in a small condo, about 660 square feet, 36 square feet of which is an unheated porch off of the master bedroom. We moved here from a 450-square-foot awkwardly-arranged apartment when our daughter was almost a year old. This condo with it’s open floorplan and 200 additional square feet felt like a palace. [...]

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