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Bloggy Thursdays: Using Google Alerts to Your Advantage

Mar 08. 2012

Welcome to this installment of Bloggy Thursdays, where I share with my fellow bloggers tips and tutorials to maximize and better your blog. While I do not consider myself an expert, I do like to think that after 10+ years of blogging — in addition to my technical knowledge — I know more than the average blogger when it comes to making your blog more appealing to readers. Do you have any comments, questions, or topics you’d like to see covered here? Please send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy! I am always amazed whenever a fellow blogger confesses to not using Google Alerts, because it's a powerful tool that can help take blogging to the next level! I am a firm believer...

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Aerin, Baby, Personal

Aerin’s Eczema Treatments

Mar 07. 2012

Our younger daughter may be a happier and easier baby than Claire, but as with many things in life her merry temperament seems to have come with a tradeoff: her sensitive, eczema-prone skin. No one else in J or my immediate families suffer from eczema so this is brand-new territory for us. (Our pediatrician told us that if neither parent has eczema, there is still a 20% chance of the child having it. If one parent has it? 60%. And if both parents have eczema? 80%.) And while Aerin's eczema has improved significantly since I quit breastfeeding — before, she had pus oozing from sores all over her face and body — she still suffers from extremely dry, itchy skin with the occasional...

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Beauty, Cool Tool Tuesdays, Reviews

Cool Tool Tuesdays: Oscar Blandi Pronto Invisible Volumizing Dry Shampoo Spray

Mar 06. 2012

Welcome to today’s installment of Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, hardware, material, or website that I have personally tried and love. Do you have any questions about today’s cool tool? Would you like an item featured in the future? Please leave a comment to this post, or send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy! I have always read that you should not shampoo your hair every day because daily washing strips your hair of beneficial oils and damages your locks. However, whenever I tried this trick, I ended up...

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