I just finished reading a fitness magazine (The one with the lady in the bikini on the cover. No, not the bikini-clad girl on the bike. Or the one on the beach. Or the 20 standing in the water. The one with the bikini-clad girl standing in the water by the beach BUT wearing a …
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Of course, not all food in nature is totally benign either. I heart mushrooms. “Dear God, Thank you for this food. Please bless it. And please tell mom to stop hiding the treat popcorn in her room and eating it all because we’d like some too. Amen.*” Hiding treats from the kids for a little …
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You have to be careful with frugality though. Sometimes the cheapest option is not always the best… “Wanna get Italian sandwiches? I’ve got a BOGO!” And thus began my first real date* with my husband nearly 13 years ago – with a buy-one-get-one coupon and a warm bottle of Coke he pulled out of his …
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Go Charlotte! It’s your birthday! We gonna party like it’s your birthday! …which means that Turbo Jennie did all my fave songs for my birthday turbokick workout AND all my friends wore tutus in my honor (okay so half of these are my tutus but they were all super good sports about wearing them!). Anyone …
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I have been afraid of the dark for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of vivid, terrifying nightmares (more evidence my brain’s been broken since the get-go?). But along with the panicky night awakenings is the soothing memory of my dad. He would sit right in our bedroom doorway …
Becoming one with art at the outdoor sculpture park. Just what every mother wants to see: their children for which they labored long hours playing under 10 tons of precariously balanced rusty metal! Monkey bars used to be my thing. I don’t want to brag or anything but in elementary school I was kind …
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Dance like no one’s watching. We’ve all heard this axiom a thousand times. But have you ever considered why people feel so compelled to repeat it? Because generally someone is watching. And even if they aren’t watching you, they’re watching someone like you and it’s easy to internalize the comments, stares or blog posts critiquing …
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Stuff I wrote lately: Fitness It’s here! It’s here!! The NFL Cheerleader workout slideshow is live! Think cheerleaders aren’t real athletes? Try this workout and get back to me… if you can still sit up to type. Lipstick and Lunges: My day as an NFL cheerleader. You already saw the (hilarious) preview, now see what …
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Tiger Lady. That’s what my oldest son christened me as soon as he could talk, thanks to my knees-to-navel stretch marks. (Note: that proud day was also the day I decided he was too old to shower with mommy anymore.) So I will be the last person to tell you that you can have a …
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2009 was a banner year for Gym Buddy Babies! Pretty sure we freaked everyone out so much that no one at our gym drank the water for a good 6 months. Swinging alone at midnight in a strange park in a stranger city, I had nothing but the starlight and the creak of the metal …
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