He’s living, breathing, and buff proof that eating your veggies doesn’t really matter as much as we say it does. You could throw every fact and figure at me that affirms the health benefits of eating vegetables far surpass those the benefits when you don’t eat your veggies, but still, I don’t care. I feel like the more I ask around, the more people I know who survived not eating their veggies at meal times....
I really don’t know how people get concave bellies, but here’s some guesses: – Not eating. That’s a big one. – Genetics. I imagine like outie belly buttons, some people just naturally incline towards the concave look. – Photographing yourself from the right angle. Usually the concave belly shots are taken from above, looking down on to the belly. – Sucking it in. Duh. There’s actually a Tumblr site dedicated to getting the concave look, where young women say things like, “It’s never going to happen for me, I swear....
But lest we forget that a great many women — most, I’m going to say — aren’t going to have washboard abs one month postpartum, this amazing and brave blogger and mom of three is here to remind us that we shouldn’t be ashamed of our real postpartum bodies. And she’s willing to prove it by sharing photos of her own body 11 months after giving birth to twins. Shannon, who also has a toddler, created her Game of Diapers blog when she was on maternity leave with her twins....
Tina Paul is one of those women. At just 28 years of age, she suffered a severe stroke in June 2008. Her daughter was just 8 months old at the time. Here Tina shares what a stroke is really like, how it has impacted her life, and its effect on her role as a mother. What was your health like before the stroke? Before my stroke, I was in great health....
This is, after all, my 5-year-old … talking to her father. “Hello, Cookie Crumb,” she whispers into his neck. “Cookie Crumb?” I say, surprised yet amused. She scowls at me, angry at the interruption. “Well, Natalie always calls Corey ‘Cookie Crumb,’” she says, referring to two kindergarten classmates. Slight pause. “What’s a cookie crumb?” she asks, pure innocence. “It’s a little piece of cookie that falls off,” I say. More from CafeMom: Man ‘Proposes’ to His Fiancée’s Daughter & the Photos Will Make You Weepy She doesn’t get it....
Here’s the dilemma: I have an Odd Couple situation on my hands. My nine-year-old is more fastidious; she likes to have things in their place, and is easily upset when her world is disrupted. The four-year-old, on the other hand, has affectionately been nicknamed The Destroyer for her penchant for, well, destroying things. So I have these two very different little girls that have to share a room. Big Sister wants things to be neat and tidy, and carefully puts her things away when she’s done using them....
However, despite the fact that Miranda’s face (and yes, matching ridiculous body) is otherworldly gorgeous, she still feels the need to always wear a little makeup for husband Orlando Bloom. She says it “keeps him happy.” And I believe it. Because dudes who say they “love women without makeup” don’t know what they’re talking about. I’m certainly not saying that the key component in making a marriage or relationship work is wearing makeup....
If your little girl grows up, gets married, and decides to take her husband’s last name — it won’t be your fault if her new initials form an undesirable three letter word. My sister-in-law had her initials go from an innocent A.S.R. to a ridiculous A.S.S. So now, as if you didn’t have enough to worry about when choosing a name for your little one, here is one more thing to pay attention to....
title: “Where To Host Your Baby S First Birthday Party” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-14” author: “Larry Merkle”
So it’s just been weird to grow up and discover some people think children should be shielded from the horrifying knowledge that there are babies out there with DIFFERENT GENITALS! I mean, from there it’s just a slippery slope of childhood corruption. Sayonara to your little darlings’ shattered innocence. Now she knows there’s such a thing as a penis — OH MY GOD, you didn’t tell her that’s what it’s called, did you?...
Anyway. The Girl Scouts have seen a steady decline in membership in recent years, going from 2.9 million youth members in 2003 to 2.2 million today. This week, Mrs. Obama helped the organization launch an unconventional ad campaign driven by social media and by word of mouth directly in communities. They’re focusing on making the Girl Scouts fun and fresh, and have created the catchphrase “I Can’t Wait To …” with colorful fill-in-the-blank responses like “Create my own masterpiece” and “Make everybody say, ‘Whoa!...
I’m a huge Drake fangirl and it truly pains me to say this, but the 6 God isn’t all that body positive. At all. Hear that? That’s the sound of my heart (and probably your heart) breaking into tiny little pieces that only some passionfruit can rejuvenate. “That’s right, I like my girls BBW, yeah / Type to wanna suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you.” BBW, which stands for “big, beautiful, woman,” is a commonly used term in porn and deeply rooted in fetishism....
I love this floral hexagon tile pattern. I want it in my bathroom. The end. Just kidding…more after the jump… Yep, I want to do things to my house. Like I still want to paint the boys’ wood floor white. And I want to remodel our bathroom. However, we’re in the “dream” stage of our home lives, rather than the “do” stage. There’s not a lot of time or money right now, which is fine cause our 2-year old still manages to break and ruin things daily....
But one woman took her cola addition to a fatal extreme. Natasha Harris was drinking two gallons of Coke a day — and she’s dead now. What doctors found in her body will shock you. Examiners found an enlarged liver with fatty deposits in Natasha’s body from the two pounds of sugar she drank every day. Her blood was low in potassium, most likely a result from her soda consumption....
Oftentimes, however, the embarrassment and shame experienced at the OB-GYN exam has little or nothing to do with the patient. Despite the fact that doctors are supposed to be professional, there are quite a few of them that completely throw professionalism out the window when it comes to examination time. And most unfortunately, the woman is left holding the bag (and the flushed cheeks). More from CafeMom: Moms Are Sharing Photos of the Worst Places They’ve Had to Pump & It’s Seriously Horrifying Here are 20 women’s real-life stories of humiliation at the gynecologist office....
Sure, when I was a fiery teen, I’d brazenly vow to fall for whomever I pleased, even if that wasn’t my folks’ idea of the Perfect Guy. But lo and behold, when I got down to being serious about looking for love, I signed up for JDate … seeking someone they’d likely adore: A nice Jewish guy. Someone artistic, but down-to-earth, funny, patient, kind, liberal-minded, humanitarian, etc. (Yeah, I wasn’t too picky!...
We also watched as Kaisa (pronounced Ka-sha), the only plus-sized modelista out of the five remaining contestants, struggled with her self confidence. I can only imagine how hard it must be to be sizes larger than your competition. And so far she’s been so vibrant … so strong. But it seems that if you bring a “large” girl to a foreign market, dress her in foreign clothing, and then put her in front of the editor in chief of Italian Vogue, Franca Sozzani, you’ll watch her crumble and go home....
Going back to Hayden for a second, when she was recently spotted looking rail-thin everywhere but her amazing, gorgeous belly, one website described her as having a “massive belly” and questioned whether she is having twins. Since I assume this writer covers entertainment, she is probably aware of the fact that the 25-year-old is not carrying twins, so the implication behind her quip is that Hayden is just too huge to be believed....
So … thanks Sports Illustrated! That’s just super duper. I can’t wait to have an awkward conversation with my 11-year-old son about this cover. “Well now! Doesn’t Ms. Davis have a nicely groomed pudendum.” Let me show you what I’m talking about. Right? You caught this part? Because it’s MY FAVORITE! What are they thinking? Are there NO parents on staff at that magazine? By all means, guys, invite the ladies to pull down their pants on every single page of the new issue for all I care....
“Mine! Mine! Mine!” “Honey, I think that shovel belongs to this little boy.” “NO!!!” Well, it’s funny in retrospect, anyway (my kids are bigger now). When you’re in the trenches of toddlerdom, exhausting is probably a more appropriate term. Which is exactly why it can’t hurt to find the humor in the “mine” phase while you’re still dealing with it. My advice? Print this list of a “Toddler’s Rules of Possession” out and put it on the fridge for perspective....
